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AHM Conference 2024: 'Heritage, Memory and Material Culture'
Located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) is a research school and doctoral program committed to the analysis of the remnants and narratives of the past in the present, as well as of the remaking of pasts into heritage, memory and material culture. AHM fosters dynamic, interdisciplinary and transnational research of heritage and memory, and brings together researchers working in diverse areas and fields heritage and memory studies, cultural studies, museum studies, archaeology, and material culture, art history, media, conservation and restoration, archival studies, digital humanities, postcolonial and performative studies, religious studies, music and theatre studies, conflict and identity studies, Slavonic languages and cultures, Holocaust and genocide studies, European memory studies, Middle Eastern studies, and cultural, public and oral history. Continue reading...
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- Conference date: June 20, 2024 - June 21, 2024
- Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- ISBN: 9789048567638
- Volume number: 3
- Published: 20 June 2024
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- Museums and Society
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oa Activating heritage from the Surinamica collection of the Allard Pierson
More LessAuthors: Isabelle Best, Katell Levéant & Stijn van RossemAt the intersection of library and museum contexts, the Allard Pierson critically interrogates the legacies of colonial entanglements present in its collections and institutional infrastructure. It centres its Surinamica Collection in a pioneering project for contemplation and radical change within the institution regarding decolonization of its collections and the implications thereof. This paper delves into the multifaceted approach o Read More
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oa Oral history: Stories at the museum around artworks. The challenges of sharing interview recordings in a FAIR way
More LessAuthors: Sanneke Stigter & Jetze TouberThis contribution outlines how successive research projects have contributed to the national digital research infrastructure supporting Open Science and FAIR use of oral history focused on artworks and their care. These projects have enabled a research collaboration of the University of Amsterdam with DANS-KNAW, the Foundation for Open Speech Technology, the National Institute for Sound & Vision (NISV), SURF, the U Read More
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- Contested Memories
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oa Comparative occupation, implication, and resistance. Algeria and Indonesia in relation to France and the Netherlands
More LessAuthors: Arnoud Arps & Rebekah VinceThis position paper presents ongoing research on transnational connections across memory studies and postcolonial studies in relation to Dutch and French (anti)colonialism following World War II. We conduct a comparative analysis of cinematic and literary representations depicting resistance, collaboration, and implication in relation to Nazism and colonialism across France and Algeria and the Netherlands and Indon Read More
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oa From what is left to what is lost: Social provenance research to challenge exclusion in restitution
More LessAuthors: Leah Niederhausen & Klaas StutjeA central assumption in the political process of restitution of looted properties and cultural objects is that their return helps societies to redeem histories of injustice and dispossession. In this article, we ask which objects address whose histories, and how processes of restitution are influenced by the presence and absence of objects and collections. Looting leads to more than material loss. While most attention nowadays goes t Read More
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oa Access and transparency. A reflection on digital colonial collections
More LessBy Wiebe ReintsAs the field of so-called ‘world museums’ is subjected to the “reparative turn” various projects emerge with the goal to increase the transparency and accessibility of colonial collections. In the wake of the Sarr-Savoy report, making these collections available through digital infrastructures has become a way to comply with this desire. Various examples of such platforms are realized across Europe, including Digital Benin, initiate Read More
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oa Memory, identity and geopolitics
More LessCollective memories form important mental frameworks within which people position themselves and subsequently act. This means that memory studies can tell us a great deal about the world we live in, also in the most literal sense: since shared memories are an indispensable element of the nation as an 'imagined community', to use Benedict Anderson's famous description, they can also have an impact on international relati Read More
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- Heritage in Writing
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oa Truth and dare: Fiction writing and academic research
More LessThis paper considers some of the potentialities and possibilities of developing literary fiction writing as a form of practice-based research in academia. It starts by pointing out some of the common oppositions between literary fiction and academic work before introducing archival research as described by historians Arlette Farge and Ann-Laura Stoler. For these scholars, the archive is a place where individual voices Read More
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oa Medical impressions: Print culture and the introduction of Chinese medicine in Western Europe, 1650-1800
More LessThis paper presents a research description containing urgent questions and discussions in the field of global book history. It rethinks the crucial impact of new printed media on the early modern European encounter with Asia, and perceptions of these encounters. It proposes to do so through an interdisciplinary study taking on the entangled histories of the burgeoning of print culture and the introduction of Chinese me Read More
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- Materiality of Heritage
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oa Treasures from the sea. Material culture and preservation
More LessAuthors: Maarten van Bommel & Ana SerranoThe University of Amsterdam has been involved in research dedicated to aunique archaeological collection with objects from a 17th century shipwreck found near Texel, an island in the north of the Netherlands. Sport divers brought a very wealthy collection of textiles and precious metal objects to the surface. Research has focused on material technical analysis and preservation of the objects. To show the textile objects i Read More
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oa On seventeenth-century gowns and women’s lives: An examination
More LessThis paper aims to outline future collaborations between material culture researchers and museums in women's clothing and silk textiles in early modern Europe. Case studies from Venetian colonies in the Mediterranean and the Dutch Republic will be used to address the question of the comparability of materials in seventeenth-century garments that have either survived or have been extensively described in archival do Read More
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oa Be Clean, Be Green. Perceptions of “cleanliness” in the history and reflection on the cleaning treatments of silver in modern conservation practice
More LessAuthors: Han Zhou, Maartje Stols-Witlox & Loïc BertrandIn modern conservation practice, cleaning is a regular treatment for heritage objects. It is executed with the aim of restoring their (perceived) original aesthetics and improving their legibility, while reinforcing their physical and chemical stability. Increasing attention is being paid to the sustainability of cleaning methods and treatments, particularly with regard to their negative impact on the environment and/or the healt Read More
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- Heritage and Digitality
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oa Textile and fashion design considerations in a digital era. Technology shifts through a post-phenomenological lens and cross-disciplinary interactions
More LessAuthors: Alexandra Kuijpers, Troy Nachtigall & Maarten van BommelFashion and textile practice transitioned over the past decade from a physically engaged design practice into a screen-based design practice with textiles simulated on digital bodies. Digital designers use tangible interaction with textiles for post-phenomenological design considerations. Our research indicates a complementary relationship between tangible interaction and drape observation, which allows for new approaches Read More
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oa AHM and ASCA research initiative on “critical audiovisual heritage” (2024-28)
More LessAuthors: Christian Olesen & Asli Özgen-HavekotteThis project description introduces the Amsterdam School of Heritage and Memory (AHM) and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) research initiative on “Critical Audiovisual Heritage”, led by Dr. Asli Özgen-Havekotte and Dr. Christian Olesen, which will kick-off in the fall semester of 2024. The project combines the grantees’ interests and on-going research on topics such as decolonising audiovisual archives, the epi Read More
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oa Virtual past places. Reinventing the classroom using virtual reality in humanities education
More LessAuthors: Jitte Waagen, Tijm Lanjouw & Hugo HuurdemanThe use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a learning environment for higher education has seen steady growth in the last decade. Besides a larger number of users, the body of research into the effectiveness of VR in higher education contexts has also grown considerably. However, recent meta-reviews reveal a lack of studies on the use of VR in the humanities. Furthermore, the potential beneficial affordances to support learning process Read More
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- The Future of Heritage Studies
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oa Decolonizing the cultural heritage of opera
More LessOpera, often considered a Eurocentric elitist art, is being reinvented around the globe. Its cross-cultural appeal has been explored by numerous artists, art collectives, activists, and established opera houses. Opera is being hybridized, indigenized, and revitalized, resulting in a new aesthetic and social energy that empowers local communities whose voice was either suppressed or erased by colonial hegemonic practices. The Read More
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oa Empowering cultural heritage photography. A low-cost, automated, open-source approach
More LessAuthors: Alessandra Marrocchesi & Robert ErdmannModern digital cameras can capture the materiality of an object to a great level of detail, making photography an increasingly useful tool in the field of cultural heritage. Despite the broad availability of digital cameras, performing high-quality photography is still typically connected to the usage of costly equipment, which is not accessible to many institutions. In this article we highlight the need for accessible solutions for hi Read More
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oa Critical heritage ecologies
More LessAuthors: Colin Sterling, Tessel Bauduin & Maria Suarez CaicedoThis short essay outlines some of the main dimensions of ecological thinking and explores the different ways in which heritage scholars might engage with ecological ideas and approaches from a critical perspective. The paper offers an overview of the emergence of ecology and ecologies across the sciences and the humanities, highlighting the need to consider such work alongside and in conjunction with Indigenous ecolog Read More
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oa The Mass Grave Project. An interdisciplinary approach to the archaeology of mass graves
More LessThe shockingly frequent occurrence of mass graves resulting from conflict and mass violence comprises a significant humanitarian and social crisis. In addition to serving as tangible evidence of deep trauma, large-scale criminal acts and violation of human rights, mass graves pose complex and challenging archaeological contexts for investigation. The large numbers of deceased individuals and personal effects found within these Read More
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