The Cambridge Heritage Research Group (HRG) meets regularly in term-time for discussions on the theme of heritage. The program includes talks by invited speakers as well as members of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. Forthcoming talks are also advertised on our Events pages.
Contact name: Isavella Voulgareli
Contact email: iv281@cam.ac.uk or heritage@arch.cam.ac.uk
Event location: Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge and online via Zoom (registration is required for online attendance, sign up via the dedicated link for each talk)
Time: Thursdays, 1pm during term time (unless specified)
Lent Term 2025
| 1pm | Thu, 30 January | Dr. Lila Janik | Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge |
'Heritage of Practice and the Role of the Past in the Construction of Ontological Security in Contemporary Japan and Beyond' |
| 1pm | Thu, 6 February | Dr. Sarah Fine | Philosophy Dept., University of Cambridge |
'Legacies in the Philosophy of Migration' |
| 1pm | Thu, 13 February | Raphael Henkes & Stanley Onyemechalu | Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge |
'Post-Conflict Memories and Legacies: Examples from World War II and the Nigerian Civil War' |
| 1pm | Thu, 20 February | Dana AlSalamin | McDonald Institute |
'Synergies of Tangible and Intangible: Rethinking Petra's Legacy with Local Voices' |
| 1pm | Thu, 27 February | Prof. Victoria Avery | The Fitzwilliam Museum |
'Researching Legacies for 'Rise Up': Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' |
| 1pm | Thu, 6 March | Dr Alisa Santikarn | Global Conservation Project, University of Vienna |
'Mutelu and the Heritage of Modern Magic in Thailand' |
| 1pm | Thu, 13 March | Geonyoung Kim & Rhea Tuli Partridge | Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge |
'Collection Objects as Sites of Divergent Legacies and Reconciliation' |
| 1pm | Thu, 20 March | Prof Jeffrey Pilcher | History Dept., University of Toronto |
'Brewing with Ninkasi: Ancient Beer as Cultural Heritage' |
Past Heritage Seminars
Lent Term 2024
| 1pm | Thu, 25 January | Dr. Alexandra Green | The British Museum | 'Burma to Myanmar' |
| 1pm | Thu, 1 February | Dr. Camille Westmont | Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge | 'Redemption Rising: Heritage-Making and Forced Prison Labor in the American South' |
| 1pm | Thu, 8 February | Prof. Kalliopi Fouseki | UCL | TBC |
| 1pm | Thu, 15 February | Dr. Jenny Bulstrode | UCL | 'The Cogs and the Wheels; the intangible heritage of Black precision engineers in C18th Jamaica and the untouchable status of British industrial triumphalism' |
| 1pm | Thu, 22 February | Prof. Jovan Byford | The Open University | 'A site remember, forgotten, contested: Semlin/Sajmište camp in Serbian public memory' |
| 1pm | Thu, 29 February | Dr. Erin O'Halloran | Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge | 'From Gernika to Gaza: Painting Against the Bombs' |
| 1pm | Thu, 7 March | Dr. Alisa Santikarn | ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge | 'Elephants, Temples & Nationalism: Impacts of the Preah Vihear Temple Conflict on the Kui Ajiang' |
| 1pm | Thu, 14 March | Dr. Eva Namusoke | The Fitzwilliam Museum | 'Eight Museums and a Garden: Exploring the University of Cambridge's African Collections' |
| 1pm | Thu, 21 March | Dr. Bryan Lintott | Associate Professor of Polar History and Heritage at UiT Norway's Arctic University in Tromso |
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Michaelmas Term 2023
| 1pm | Thu, 12 October | Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz | Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge | 'Is My Voice Future Heritage? - the Politics and Processes of Jewish Sound Archiving in the Mediterranean' |
| 1pm | Thu, 26 October | Dr. Miriam Saqqa Carazo | Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge | '(Re)thinking about the Recent Past through Forensic Archives' |
| 1pm | Thu, 9 November | Dr. Domenico Sergi | Museum of London | 'Reclaiming the Centrality of Class in Contemporary Museum Theory and Practice' |
| 1pm | Thu, 23 November | Prof. Sybille Frank | Technical University Darmstadt | 'Entrepreneurial Heritage-Making in Post-Wall Berlin: The Case of New Potsdamer Platz' |
| 1pm | Thu, 30 November | Prof. Caitlin DeSilvey | University of Exeter | 'Heritage Lost and Found: Cruel Optimism and Climate Futures' |
Easter Term 2023
| 1pm | Thu, 27 April | Mila Wolpert | (Fulbright Program) | Transatlantic Ties: Fulbright Research on the Rothschild Legacy at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Paris | |
| 1pm | Thu, 4 May | Dr Andrea Roberts | (University of Virginia) | Co-Creating Counternarratives: Foundations for Just Planning & Preservation |
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Lent Term 2023
| 1pm | Thu, 26 January | Dr Kevin Lane | (CONICET) | Past Water Futures: heritage, water security and dam restoration in the Andes | View the recording |
| 1pm | Thu, 2 February | Prof. Caitlin DeSilvey | (University of Exeter) | Letting Be(come): undoings at the museum | POSTPONED |
| 1pm | Thu, 16 February | Prof. Stefan Berger | (Ruhr University) | Title to be confirmed | POSTPONED |
| 1pm | Thu, 23 February |
Prof Ruth Mandel* |
(University College London) | Creating Heritage: exploring the tangible and intangible of Stolpersteine/Stumbling Stones | POSTPONED |
| 1pm | Thu, 2 March | Dr Rebecca Haboucha* | (University of Pennsylvania) | Language in the Landscape: Exploring Cultural Inclusions and Exclusions in Canadian Heritage Interpretation | POSTPONED |
*Speaker presenting online
Michaelmas Term 2022
| 1pm | Thu, 3 November | Dr Ethan Cochrane | (University of Auckland) | Niche Construction, Heritage Ecology, and Ancient Sāmoan Agriculture | |
| 1pm | Thu, 10 November | Dr Lauren Yapp | (Brown University) | The making of a “heritage citizen”: historic preservation, urban gentrification, and personal transformation in Indonesia | |
| 1pm | Thu, 17 November | Dr Tanja Hoffmann | (University of York) | Humility, Hubris, and Heritage: Tales from the Frontlines of Community-Based Research | |
| 1pm | Thu, 24 November | Laura Searson | (Victoria & Albert Museum) | Culture in Crisis: Leveraging the Power of Museums in Heritage Preservation Internationally - a conversation with Dr Dacia Viejo Rose | POSTPONED |
| 1pm | Thu, 1 December | Prof John Scofield | (University of York) | 'The Moon and the Ghetto': How Cultural Heritage Solutions Can Help Solve the World’s Wicked Problems |
Easter Term 2022
| 1pm |
Thu, 28 April |
Dr Frigga Kruse |
(Kiel University) |
Beginning with Barentsz: first historical-archaeological steps in the reconstruction of a pre-contact Arctic ecosystem | |
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Thu, 5 May |
Dr Kirstine Møller | (National Museum and Archives of Greenland and Memorial University of Newfoundland and Greenland, Ilismatusarfik—the University of Greenland) |
Towards an ethical archaeology: challenges in bridging the gap between Indigenous knowledge and archaeological practice in Kalaallit Nunaat |
Lent Term 2022
Previous term cards can be found at the links below:
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2022-23
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2021-22
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2020-21
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2018-19
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2017-18
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2016-17
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2015-16
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2014-15
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2013-14
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2012-13
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2011-12
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2010-11
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2009-2010
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2008-09
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