MONDAY 15TH APRIL
Opening Reception
St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
15 April 2024
17:30-19:00
This registration is specifically for our Opening Session to start our celebrations and dialogues.
The event is free and open to all. Drinks and canapés will be served on the ground floor of St. Cecilia’s Hall.
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL
Connecting with Europe through Heritage
Organiser(s): Edward Hollis & Chiara Bonacchi
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG (HYBRID)
16 April 2024, 10:15-12:30
This workshop aims to build synergies leading to future collaborative research funded by the European Commission. First, we will be joined by Jamie Davies (Senior International Partnerships and Engagement Manager for Europe, AHRC) and Conor Snowden (Strategic Research Executive – International Development, at the University of Edinburgh) and successful grant awardees. They will introduce the landscape of funding that is or could be relevant to heritage-focused researchers wanting to work with colleagues across Europe. After a Q&A session, we will move to informal networking and participants will have the opportunity to share their research interests and plans, and link up with potential collaborators across College and the University. We hope that the session will end with concrete plans to follow-up with colleagues and stimulating grant development discussions.
This event will be accompanied by tea, coffee, and refreshments.
EVENTBRITE: https://heritage16Aprilmorning.eventbrite.co.uk
Postgraduate Studies opportunities in Cultural Heritage: New Initiatives
Organiser(s): Edward Hollis & Chiara Bonacchi
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
(HYBRID)
16 April 2024, 16:00-17:00
In this session, Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Prof. Ed Hollis will introduce new initiatives for postgraduate students in the field of Cultural Heritage. Dr Bonacchi will introduce the new Edinburgh Futures Institute MsC in Cultural Heritage Futures, and Prof. Hollis will outline proposals for a new cross-cutting PhD in Cultural Heritage as well as the Una Europa Heritage Doctoral Certificate programme. This event will be of interest to those considering Masters or PhD study, as w ell as potential supervisors and academics.
This event will be followed by evening drinks and an opportunity to meet researchers in our transnational heritage research themes over drinks and nibbles.
EVENTBRITE: https://heritage16Aprilafternoon.eventbrite.co.uk
Exploring transnational research themes
Organiser(s): Edward Hollis, UNA EUROPA
Laigh Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
16 April 2024, 17:30-19:00
(HYBRID : Zoom link below)
Join Zoom meeting: https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/93617684077?pwd=OWRUYk9tUEdadGVZS1FKZVFMRVVwZz09
Meeting ID: 936 1768 4077
Passcode: 451522
Are you interested in heritage and…
- Global migration and mobility?
- Digitization?
- Social capital, mutuality and volunteering?
- Safeguarding?
At this networking event, led by our partners in Una Europa, researchers at all career stages from masters onwards are invited to hear more about these four key research themes, to share their own work, and to forge new partnerships and opportunities.
For more information about the transnational research themes in Cultural Heritage, visit: https://www.una-europa.eu/study/una-her-doc/fields-of-research .
Drinks and nibbles will be available.
EVENBRITE: https://heritagenetworking.eventbrite.co.uk
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL
Discomfiting things: (re)articulating stories and Objects
John Harries & Jennifer Gray
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
17 April 2024, 10:30-12:00
In this handling session, which will engage the contents of a cabinet at Yester House in East Lothian and north American seal harpoon ‘acquired’ by the British Museum the anthropologist John Harries and the designer Jennifer Gray will discuss, from different disciplinary directions the ways in which remaking and recreating historic objects articulate their stories – or, at least, the stories we choose to tell them.
About the speakers:
Dr John Harries: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/john-harries
Jennifer Gray: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/jennifer-gray
Coffee, tea, and biscuits will be available on the ground floor of St. Cecilia’s Hall.
EVENBRITE: https://heritage17Aprilmorning.eventbrite.co.uk
The Last English Catholic Church in the World: Painting, Print and Polemic in 1580s Rome
Pr. Carol Richardson
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
17 April 2024, 12:00-13:00
The embellishment of the church of the Venerable English College in Rome reveals the complex theological, political and religious tensions of sixteenth-century Brexit in a powerful visual argument.
The English College is the oldest British institution on foreign soil, and continues to operate as a seminary and informal embassy to the Vatican. When Roman Catholic scholars and priests could no longer teach or preach in Elizabethan England and Wales from the 1560s they headed to the continent, first to Leuven and then to Rome where in the 1570s the national medieval pilgrim hospice became a seminary as well. The Jesuits got involved and under their stewardship a powerful visual argument turned the institution’s church into a shrine for lost sacred landscapes and a memorial to Tudor martyrs. The images survive in a book of engravings from which the original scheme can be reconstructed (to a degree).
The form of the argument is as important as the content, its brilliance and complexity the result of the experience of English Catholics in Leuven, Poland and Scandinavia. The visual cycle at the English College is the least studied of the three programmes associated with the Jesuits in the 1580s (along with Santo Stefano Rotondo and Sant’Apollinare) but it is by far the most sophisticated as this talk will demonstrate.
Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available on the ground floor of St. Cecilia’s Hall.
EVENTBRITE: https://heritage17Aprilnoon.eventbrite.co.uk
Architectural Conservation Masterclass: World heritage and global circulations. The case of Angkor, Cambodia by Maria Gravari-Barbas
Organiser(s): Ruxandra-Iulia Stoica
Minto House (Conservation Room 4.16), Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1JZ
17 April 2024, 16:00-17:00
World Heritage sites are caught in a permanent tension between local and global. Fully integrated into global systems (World Heritage institutions, international protection and conservation standards, international heritage experts, international tourists, etc.) they are, at the same time, invested in by local communities living in their vicinity, often within the protected perimeter. The values attributed by some or the others are not always the same. The ‘universality’ of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), the basis of World Heritage sites, is increasingly being challenged.
The tensions between local and global are not just technical and managerial; they are also symbolic and conceptual. In a context of international circulation (of concepts, experts, standards, images and imaginaries, etc.), heritage is not always the product of an endogenous recognition process. It is increasingly the result of circulating views, approaches, emotions and knowledge. As a result, far from the ideal scheme whereby heritage is a bottom-up process, emanating from local communities, heritage is often identified and recognised by these international elites (technical, intellectual, artistic, tourist, etc.). The lecture will analyse this process of heritage development through global circulation – the globalisation of heritage.
It will focus in particular on the case of Angkor, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the conservation of which is overseen by an International Coordination Committee (ICC). The ICC coordinates scientific, restoration, conservation and tourism management projects between thirty countries and a group of international experts. The wide range of countries involved, each with its own approaches, doctrines and conservation and management tools, makes Angkor a unique laboratory for contemporary heritage globalisation.
About the speaker:
Maria Gravari-Barbas is full time professor of cultural and social geography at IREST, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She has a degree in Architecture and Urban Design (University of Athens) and a PhD in Geography and Planning (Paris IV – Sorbonne). She was Fellow at the Urban Program of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. She is the Director of the EIREST, a multidisciplinary research team dedicated to tourism studies, with main focus on cultural heritage, development, and urban-tourism evolutions. Since 2009 she is the director of the UNESCO Chair of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the coordinator of the UNITWIN network ‘Tourism, Culture, Development’. She is the Chair of the Self Steering Committee of Cultural Heritage of Una Europa and of the Joint Doctoral Committee of the PhD on Cultural Heritage of Una Europa.
Her published works include:
Tourism & Fashion. Parallel Stories, Emerald (2023), Tourism and architectural simulacra, Routledge,(2021); Tourism Dynamics in Everyday Places: Before and After Tourism, Routledge, 2021; A research Agenda for Heritage Tourism, Elgar (2020), Le patrimoine mondial, Mise en tourisme, mise en images, L’Harmattan (2020), Lieux ordinaires, avant et après le tourisme, PUCA (2018), Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises. International Perspectives,Routledge (2017), World Heritage Sites and Tourism. Global and Local Relations, Routledge (2017).
The Event will be followed by a drinks and Canapés Reception in the Lang Gallery at Minto House.
THURSDAY 18TH APRIL
Discovery and Digitisation: Alice Thornton’s Life and Books (1626-1707)
Organiser(s): Cordelia Beattie
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
18 April 2024, 11:30-13:30
This interactive session will demonstrate how the AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project is turning Thornton’s seventeenth-century manuscripts into an open-access Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) that both preserves her texts and changes our understanding of their cultural significance. Attendees will be introduced to her four autobiographical manuscripts and be offered unique access to sections of the DSE that are not yet available to the public. In addition, audio samples of Debbie Canon reading her one-woman play, The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton, and other clips relating to our research findings will be available. There will also be an opportunity to ink your own short autobiographical story, inspired by an Alice Thornton prompt.
Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available and following the event, lunch will be available on the ground floor from 13:30-14:30.
EVENTBRITE: https://heritage18AprilThornton.eventbrite.co.uk
Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
Organiser(s): Jen Ross
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
18 April 2024, 14:30-16:30
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage research? How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities for the future?
The workshop hosts from the University of Edinburgh have developed a set of scenarios to explore imagined futures for digital cultural heritage. If you are a digital cultural heritage researcher or a professional who works with digital collections, please join us for an afternoon of strategic discussions about these scenarios.
The workshop will be hosted in-person at St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, by members of the Infrastructure Futures DCH research project team: Dr Jen Ross (lead), Cate Schofield, Dr Philippa Sheail, and Professor Melissa Terras
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/project/infrastructure-futures-digital-cultural-heritage
Your Participation: The research team leading this workshop aims to understand how these future scenarios can support collective scrutiny and imagination about digital cultural heritage. Prior to the workshop, we will send all participants information about the research and ask for permission to take notes and photographs during the workshop. These notes and images will be used to develop a report about the project, and will potentially lead to other publications and presentations. You will be able to choose how information you share during the workshop is used.
Lunch, coffee and tea will be available on the ground floor of St Cecilia’s Hall from 2:00 pm.
Curious Edinburgh: Launch of Coastal Trails
Organiser(s): Niki Vermeulen
Laigh Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
18 April 2024, 17:00-18:00
Curious Edinburgh offers app-based walking tours on Edinburgh’s heritage. Based on a range of academic research on Edinburgh, we created tours on the history of science, technology and medicine, and we also worked with Edinburgh’s community organisations to showcase a variety of cultural heritage, e.g. on the history of charity and civic action. Based on the success of our Granton tour, developed in collaboration with granton:hub we are now launching our new coastal trails, including one on birds, exploring various historic interactions between Edinburgh and its coastal environment.
During this Cultural Heritage Festival event we will showcase the app and our new coastal tours, while also discussing the collaborative process of developing heritage trails and our plans for the future.
Drinks and nibbles will be available on the ground floor of St. Cecilia’s Hall.
EVENTBRITE: https://curiousedinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk
FRIDAY 19TH APRIL
Producing Knowledge Through Practice: Cases Studies on Digital Heritage in China by Chen Jing
Organiser(s): Melissa Terras
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
19 April 2024, 10:30-11:30
The speaker will share several digital heritage projects conducted by her team in the past five years, such as the restoration of Chinese traditional color, machine learning-based image analysis, and digital curation of artifacts based on metadata to discuss how digital visual knowledge production has reshaped the epistemology of cultural heritage.
About the Speaker:
Chen Jing陈静 is an Associate Professor of the School of Arts at Nanjing University and the founding member of the Innovation Center for Digital Humanities Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Social Science and Humanities of Nanjing University. Her current interest focuses on Digital Art and Digital Humanities, especially visual knowledge production with digital technology. She published essays in Chinese and English and curated exhibitions of painting, VR artworks, and Generative Art.
This session is supported in conjunction with the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society.
Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available on the ground floor of St. Cecilia’s Hall.
EVENTBRITE: https://heritagechina19April.eventbrite.co.uk
What is Archaeology’s Place in Heritage?
Organiser(s): Emily Johnston & Kirsty Lilley
Laigh Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
19 April 2024, 11:30-13:30
This session looks to bring together archaeological and heritage professionals and wider audiences to discuss the topic of ‘what is archaeology’s place in heritage?’. The aim of this session is to explore public perceptions of archaeology and heritage, and to compare these with perspectives from both professionals and academics engaging in archaeological heritage work and research. In doing so, we will explore how professional and academic priorities overlap with public expectations and needs, and consider how archaeology fits into wider narratives of heritage values. We hope that this opportunity can address how we approach working with the public across archaeological and heritage sectors and organisations, and look towards best practices.
Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available and following the event, lunch will be available on the ground floor from 13:30-14:30.
EVENTBRITE: https://archaeologyinheritage.eventbrite.co.uk/
Defining Heritage Values: Heritage Research Group student event
Organiser(s): Chiara Bonacchi &Tanja Romankiewicz
Sypert Concert Hall, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street Edinburgh EH1 1LG
19 April 2024, 14:30-15:30
Calling all students (UG, PG, PhD) to join this interactive workshop to define Heritage Values and co-create future, student-led events for our Heritage Research Group
The Heritage Research Group is based in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, led by Chiara Bonacchi, Arturo Rey da Silva, Tanja Romankiewicz and Joanne Rowland.
We critically investigate heritage values, particularly in digital and sustainable heritage, and heritage policy, from the local to the global scale, bridging nature and culture. We ask how heritage shapes identities and how identities shape heritage. We do this interdisciplinarily, especially in collaboration with Social Anthropology, focusing on analytical methods and data innovation. Our research is often co-produced with local communities and public stakeholders.
In this event, we would like to invite students to learn more about our group – and to get involved in co-creating events for the upcoming academic year 2024/25. All cohorts, UG, PG, and PhD are welcome.
Prior to the event, lunch, coffee and tea will be available on the ground floor of St Cecilia’s Hall from 13:30 -14:30.
EVENTBRITE: https://heritagestudent.eventbrite.co.uk
