The conference also aims to create a dialogue between AHM’s research and external and social partners in order to explore and discuss questions and problems that are relevant in the fields of heritage, memory, and material culture today within and beyond the university. Themes of the conference include, but are not limited to AHM’s Research Themes:

• Museums and Memorials: Examines how art, cultural objects and artefacts as well as their stakeholders engage with and give shape to cultural heritage and memory.
• Heritage and Conflict: Explores the heritage of conflicts and the memory boom in the present, as well as the activation of heritage and memory as means of conflict resolution.
• Transnational Memory Narratives: Investigates the dynamics of memory and the politics of narrative, broadly conceived, in relation to identity formation and material culture agencies.
• Digitality and E-Memories: Examines digital technologies and they ways in which they influence the production, transmission of and engagement with cultural heritage and memory.
• Materiality and Material Culture: Focuses on the documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of materials and material culture varying from archeological sites, (art) object to landscapes.

Attending the conference is free of charge. However, we do ask you to register for the conference.