Past Events

25th Annual Cambridge Heritage Symposium Pathways of Afterlives: Tracing, Uncovering, and Researching Legacies of the Past

8-9 May 2025, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

''Mutelu' and the Heritage of Modern Magic in Thailand'

Dr Alisa Santikarn (University Assistant, Post-Doc, Global Conservation Project, GloCo, University of Vienna)

Thursday 6 March, 2025

2025 Annual Heritage Lecture: Changing Concepts of the Future and the 'Ethics of Repair'

Professor Aleida Assmann, Professor of English Literature and General Literary Studies, Universität Konstanz

'Researching Legacies for 'Rise Up': Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' 

Professor Victoria Avery (Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Professor of European Sculpture, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 27th February, 2025

'Post-Conflict Memories and Legacies: Examples from World War II and the Nigerian Civil War'

Raphael Henkes (Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 

Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu (Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 

'Legacies in the Philosophy of Migration' 

Dr Sarah Fine (Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge) 

Thursday 6 February, 2025

When: Thursday 30 January, 2025: 19:00 - 21:00 

'Heritage of Practice and the Role of the Past in the Construction of Ontological Security in Contemporary Japan and Beyond' 

Dr Liliana Janik (University of Cambridge) 

Prof. Simon Kaner (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures) 

'Heritage in Extremis'

Dr. Bryan Lintott (Asscociate Professor of Polar History and Heritage at UiT Norway's Arctic University in Tromso)

Thursday 21st March, 2024