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FORTHEM Cultural Heritage Lab Lecture Series: New approaches to the study of heritage

FORTHEM Cultural heritage lecture series is a great opportunity for students, researchers and teachers to hear what kind of projects are currently taking place in other FORTHEM universities as well as to get familiar with the latest developments from the multidisciplinary field of heritage studies. Lectures cover topics such as international and local heritage institutions; heritage, memories and identities; community participation in heritage; societal change and re-interpretations of heritage; new methodological openings social sciences and humanities; and archaeological approaches to heritage and sustainability.  

The lecture series consists of eleven lectures that are given via zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays 15.15–16.45 (CET)/16.15–17.45 (EET) from October 15th, 2024, to November 19th, 2024. Please note your time zone! You can choose and listen either individual lectures or the whole series.   

Please sign up for the lecture series to receive the zoom links by October 11th, 2024. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/xhRofiUT6XVK6U1G9     

The lecture series is part of the activities of the FORTHEM Cultural heritage lab and the lecturers come from different FORTHEM member universities. For all questions, please contact Johanna Turunen, johanna.k.turunen@jyu.fi  

Program 

International Heritage Governance, Tuesday 15 October 2024,15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

UNESCO and World Heritage  | Miia Huttunen (University of Jyväskylä)  

Sustainable Development Goals and heritage-based organizations  | Mar Gaitán (University of Valencia)  

Institutional Case studies, Thursday 17 October 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Sibiu International Theatre Festival  | Ion M. Tomuș, (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)  

For-profit Museums: The case of the Music Museum Fame  | Helena Laukkoski (University of Jyväskylä)  

Communities, memories and heritage, Tuesday 22 October 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Heritage, participation and communities  | Suzie Thomas (University of Antwerp, Visiting Fellow at University of Jyväskylä)  

Searching for the Taste of Freedom: Exploring Olfactory Heritage through Oral History  | Maarja Merivoo-Parro (University of Jyväskylä)  

Identities and Belonging, Thursday 24 October 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Heritage, identities and belonging  | Katja Mäkinen (University of Jyväskylä)  

Belonging and Communities in Multicultural Folk Music Work  | Annika Mylläri (University of Jyväskylä)  

Re-narrating heritage, Tuesday 29 October 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Re-storying the Victory Square in Riga –project  | Vita Zelče, Marita Zitmane and Laura Ardava-Āboliņa (University of Latvia)  

Monuments and Place names as heritage, Thursday 31 October 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Place names as cultural heritage: perspectives from critical toponymic research  | Mihai Rusu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)  

Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine  | Mischa Gabowitsch (University of Mainz)  

Methods from Humanities 1, Tuesday 5 November 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Researching cultural heritage through multi-sited team ethnography  | Tuuli Lähdesmäki (University of Jyväskylä)  

Studying museum experience from the perspective of transformative learning  | Johanna Turunen (University of Jyväskylä)  

Methods from Humanities 2, Thursday 7 November 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Affect cards as a tool for scrutinizing sensory and embodied memories  | Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (University of Jyväskylä)  

Combining different data types: My Countryside. Intergenerationality, Place and Gender -project  | Maria Vanha-Similä (University of Jyväskylä)  

Archaeological fieldwork, Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

The role of archaeological fieldwork in the Near East for strategies of Cultural Heritage Protection  | Alexander Pruss (University of Mainz)  

 Organizing and implementing archaeological excavations  | Agnese Kukela (University of Latvia)  

Archaeological heritage, Thursday 14 November 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Archaeology of Christianity and paganism in North Danube territory  | Ioan-Marian Țiplic (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)  

Recovering Ancient Heritage – Lost Fortunes and Forgotten Warriors  | Silviu I. Purece (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)  

Archaeology and sustainability, Tuesday 19 November 2024, 15.15-16.45 (CET) / 16.15-17.45 (EET) 

Assessment and mapping of the damage due to weathering and deterioration on historical stone buildings and monuments  | Agnese Kukela (University of Latvia)  

The Stereotomy Laboratory Experience. History, Survey, Digital Modeling and Construction for Architectural Heritage Knowledge and Enhancement  | Emanuela Garofalo, Tiziana Campisi and Fabrizio Agnello (University of Palermo)  

 

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