programme_unesco_workshop_18.11.2015.pdf
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… and approaches learn from one another? 4 LOCATION Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grote Gracht 80-82, Room 0.001 6211 Maastricht 5 PROGRAMME Tuesday (speakers only) [17 November 2015, Grote Gracht 80-82, Room 0.001] 15:00 Welcome, followed by city tour 17:30 Evening Lecture by Joop de Jong 19:00 Dinner Wednesday (public) [18 November 2015, Grote Gracht 80-82, Room 0.001] 08:45 Opening by Kiran Patel, followed by coffee/tea SESSION 1 Cultural Heritage and the Politics of … European identity. That Europe was specifically Western, Christian, and conservative and concurred with the idea of Abendland, widespread in the first decades of the Bonner Republic. Local politics of culture centered on the Aachen Cathedral, which combined those religious and political characteristics and was intimately tied to Charlemagne. Its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1978, shows how local politics of history were reused by national actors in order to support the … for their diverging interests concerning the material place and its historical interpretation. The presentation will reflect on the arguments presented above. It will focus on the spatial politics concerning the Museum and Memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau, where these processes manifested themselves in conflicts about the UNESCO buffer zone surrounding the former concentration and extermination camp. Drawing on the universal cultural claims grounded in the World Heritage Convention, UNESCO experts and …