Archive for the ‘Conference reviews’ Category

Conference Report: From Venice to Dresden…

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Last weekend I attended a workshop on heritage & reconstruction, organised by a group of young heritage professionals unhappy with the current state of both practice and theory in the German heritage sector. This was the sixth such workshop on “Reconsidering heritage management” (Nachdenken über Denkmalpflege). All the others have ...

Conference review: Capturing the Public Value of Heritage

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

George S. Smith reviews the conference 'Capturing the Public Value of Heritage', held 25-26 January 2006 at the Royal Geographic Society in London: The conference drew together a diverse audience of some 400 people to discuss the value of heritage around the concept of learned and shared public values. ...

Report from UISPP

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

In response to our post yesterday, Andrea Vianello sends this personal report from the recent UISPP conference in Lisbon: I arrived in Lisbon on Sunday from the United Kingdom, and the first thing that I noticed was the temperature: 35 degrees Celsius, a lot more than what it was in ...

The archaeological divide

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Alan Saville, editor of the European Journal of Archaeology, writes in the Editorial of the new issue 8 (2): Delegate attendance at the 2006 conference of the Institute of Field Archaeologists speaks volumes for the divide that exists within archaeology between academia on one side and those working within the state, ...

Collective memory and the uses of the past

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Earlier this month, I went to a fascinating, interdisciplinary conference on "Collective memory and the uses of the past", organised by a team around Andy Wood at the School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. The full programme is available here (text file).