Heritage Urgencies

Heritage is shaped by complex global dynamics, from environmental crises and decolonial movements to technological advancements and shifting geopolitical landscapes. These forces challenge conventional understandings of heritage-making, raising fundamental questions about what is preserved, who decides its value, and how heritage is reimagined for the future. What then are the most urgent challenges facing heritage – and heritage studies – today? How do these challenges stem from and/or contribute to decentring the west, decentring the human, and reshaping value systems? In what ways can they forge new scholarly and creative practices?

Inherit‘s directors Sharon Macdonald, also a Principal Investigator at Matters of Activity, and Eva Ehninger kindly invite you to the roundtable debate with inherit‘s board members Paul Basu (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), Marisa Belausteguigoita Rius (School of Humanities, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Marija Drėmaitė (Faculty of History, Vilnius University), Shouyong Pan (Department of Archaeology and Museology, Shanghai University), Mahalakshmi Ramakrishnan (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi).

More information and the live stream can be found on inherit's website.

The event takes place at Festsaal Luisenstraße. Kindly register until 14 July at info-inherit [​at​] hu-berlin.de to participate.