Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Heritage and History research group leverages expertise present across UEA to examine the relationship between heritage and history. How might we think about heritage historically, and what might thinking this way bring to the understanding of heritage and its practice; local, global, or otherwise? Defined broadly, the history of heritage encompasses the development of any number of disciplines, all of which are opening to enquiry about their own histories: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, museology, and history itself among them. So, too, is heritage an inextricably historical phenomenon, not least in its entanglement with the practices of global governance, diplomacy, and notions of development that emerged in the post-war period through institutions like UNESCO (and in the interwar period through UNESCO’s predecessors). How, though, can we bring historical reflection to bear in a way that interrogates the assumptions implicit in the way that many of these developments have been considered? Where might interrogating such assumptions lead in terms of a more reflexive and critically aware heritage practice?
These are not immaterial questions. To take the obvious example, in the last couple of years, decolonisation has become a heritage-industry buzzword. The term is increasingly (some might say) devoid of substantive meaning, but also now prevalent across museums, university courses, ‘heritage places’ and the institutions responsible for them. Yet how might we grapple with the history of this word and its material and other consequences? Decolonisation was a term popularised by European nations as their empires crumbled and their governments sought to retain some form of control over how independent nation-states formed. The process also entailed continued interventions in the international institutions within which the new nations started to gather alongside the old imperial ones. What, then, should we make of the word’s use by heritage institutions today? This group will consider these and other, related questions.
Network
Profiles
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Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
- Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities - Lecturer
- Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures - Acting Executive Director
- Heritage and History - Member
- Legible / Visible - Member
- Centre for Japanese Studies - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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William Carruthers
- School of Art, Media and American Studies - Honorary Lecturer, Visitor
- Art History and World Art Studies - Member
- Area Studies - Member
- Heritage and History - Member
Person: Honorary, Other related - academic, Research Group Leader, Research & Analogous, Research Group Member
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Joanne Clarke
- School of Art, Media and American Studies - Professor
- Art History and World Art Studies - Member
- Area Studies - Member
- Beyond Materiality - Group Lead
- Heritage and History - Member
- Centre for African Art and Archaeology - Member
- Developing Resilience through Climate Narratives - Member
- ClimateUEA - Member
Person: Research Group Leader, Member, Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Investigating the origins and development of the Cotton Collection at the British Library
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/10/22 → 30/09/26
Project: Training
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Francis Young, Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts, 2020. Pp. 192; black-and-white figures. €50
Pinner, R., Jan 2023, In: Speculum. 98, 1, p. 355-356 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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From Rabbis and Millenarians to High Church Orthodoxy: Edward Bernard (1638-1697) Reads the 1646 Amsterdam Vocalized Mishnah
Roebuck, T., 6 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 53, 1, p. 149–178 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Downloads (Pure) -
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites
Jenkins, H., Andrews, J., Rowan, Y. M., Wasse, A., White, T., Philip, G., Marca, A. & Clarke, J., Mar 2023, In: The Holocene. 33, 3, p. 255-266 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Pinner, Rebecca (Recipient), Oct 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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Finalist, UEA Innovation and Impact Awards 2021
Roebuck, Thomas (Recipient), 26 Apr 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Katherine Briggs Award (long-listed)
Pinner, Rebecca (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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UK Research & Innovation (External organisation)
Joanne Clarke (Member)
1 Jan 2023 → 1 Jan 2025Activity: Membership › Peer review panel
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Kusi Ideas Festival
Joanne Clarke (Speaker)
8 Dec 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Japanese Archaeological Association
Andrew Hutcheson (Invited speaker)
29 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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New Books Network podcast with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin: "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell University Press, 2022)
5/03/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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How Egypt's Aswan Dam Washed Away Nubian Heritage
24/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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William Carruthers, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (New Texts Out Now)
22/12/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media