15/09/2016 - Workshop on Segmented East-European History in Bucharest (Romania)

Workshop on Segmented East-European History in Bucharest.

The workshop seeks to explore the specificities of reaction to political and social change in the context of museums and heritage sites. Within this framework, the workshop will bring together contributions that respond to one or more of the following aspects, relating to the central concern on whether museum displays and heritage sites have been remade to conform to new scientific and political narratives/ agendas:
- Examine case-studies of metamorphoses of East-European museums and built heritage during the Cold War and in post-communism;
- Discuss whether museums are sometimes in the vanguard of social and political change or are they merely reacting to societal transformations;
- Analyse how museums and heritage sites have been mobilized to qualify, and at times to criminalize the socialist period;
- Seek to highlight the emergence and circulation of heritage models at national, regional and trans-regional levels;
- Expand the debate by bringing case-studies of transnational processes going beyond the European borders (with a particular interest in Latin America);
- Bring theoretical and methodological insights into the study of processes of heritage-making from a transnational perspective.

Open to: researchers who have an interest in political and social change in the context of museums and heritage sites.

Venue: 4-5 November 2016, Bucharest, Romania.

Deadline: 15 September 2016.

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