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Heritage Regimes and the State:
Nomination, Implementation, Regulation
Working conference at the Georg‐August‐University of Göttingen, June 17‐19, 2011
Conference Venue: Institute of Cultural Anthropology/ European Ethnology, Friedländer Weg 2, Grey Building, Room PH 05
FRIDAY, June 17, 2011
6:00 p.m. Reception at Holbornsches Haus, Rote Straße 34
Dr. Schlapeit‐Beck, Welcome Remarks by the City of Göttingen
Keynote by Kristin Kuutma, University of Tartu
SATURDAY, June 18, 2011
9:00‐9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Prof. Dr. Regina Bendix, Speaker of the DFG Research Group on Cultural Property
Discussants: Don Brenneis, Rosemary Coombe, Philip W. Scher, Laurajane Smith
East and South East Asian Settings
Chair: Laurajane Smith
9:15 a.m.‐9:35 a.m. Keiko Miura, Interdisciplinary Research Group on “Cultural Property”, Georg‐August‐
University Göttingen:
World Heritage Making in Angkor. Global, Regional, National and Local Actors, Interplays
and Implications
9:35 a.m.‐9:55 a.m. Dong Wang, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku:
China’s Longmen Grottoes and the Regulation and Marketization of Heritage
9:55 a.m.‐10:15 a.m. Joint Discussion
10:15 a.m.‐10:30 a.m. BREAK
Postcolonial Settings and State Building
Chair: Thomas Schmitt
10:30 a.m.‐10:50 a.m. Adelheid Pichler, Institut für Kultur‐ und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien:
Processes of Alienating and Appropriating Cultural Representations. A Case Study of the Old
Town of Havana
10:50 a.m.‐11:10 a.m. Maria Cardeira da Silva, CRIA – Center/ Network for Research in Anthropology, Dep.
Anthropology – FCSH‐UN Lisboa:
Castles Abroad. Nation, Culture and Cosmopolitanism in African Heritage Sites of Portuguese
Origin
11:10 a.m.‐11:30 a.m. Philip W. Scher, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon:
Uneasy Heritage: Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Caribbean Heritage Practices
11:30 a.m.‐11: 50 a.m. Sven Mißling, Interdisciplinary Research Group on “Cultural Property”, Georg‐August‐
University Göttingen:
The Interdependence of Sovereign Rights on Cultural Property and Statehood
11:50 a.m.‐ 1:00 p.m. Joint Discussion
1:00 p.m.‐2:15 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
Poster Presentation: Tatiana Bajuk Senčar and Jurij Fikfak (in absentia), Institute of
Anthropological and Spatial Studies (IAPŠ) at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana:
„Slovenian National Park Triglav, the State, and the People ‚Who and what is the first
priority?‘”
Intangible Heritage I
Chair: Markus Tauschek
2:15 p.m.‐ 2:35 p.m. Anaïs Leblon, Centre d‘études des mondes africains, Université de Provence:
Heritage Regime and Pastoral Festivities in Mali: Heritage Policy versus Local Constraints
2:35 p.m.‐ 2:55 p.m. Gabriele Mentges, TU Dortmund: Unesco and Uzbek Nation Building
2:55 p.m.‐ 3:15 p.m. Joint Discussion
3:15 p.m.‐3:30 p.m. BREAK
Intangible Heritage II
Chair: Aditya Eggert
3:30 p.m.‐ 3:50 p.m. Laurent‐Sébastien Fournier, University of Nantes:
Intangible Cultural Heritage in France: From State Culture to Local Development
3:50 p.m.‐ 4:10 p.m. Florence Graezer Bideau, Centre for Area and Cultural Studies, EPFL et Institut d’ethnologie,
Université de Neuchatel:
Identifying “living traditions” in Switzerland: Recreating Federalism through the Application
of the UNESCO Convention
4:10 p.m. Joint Discussion and wrap up of day one
Discussants: Don Brenneis, Rosemary Coombe
SUNDAY, June 19, 2011
Cultural Landscapes I
Chair: Peter Hoerz
9:30 a.m.‐ 9:50 a.m. Máiréad NicCraith, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Ulster:
UNESCO’s Cultural Agency: A Case Study of Sceilig Mhíchíl (Ireland)
9:50 a.m.‐ 10:10 a.m. Cristina Sánchez‐Carretero, Research Institute on Heritage Studies, Spanish National
Research Council, Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento:
On Gaps and Logics: The Logic of Market and the Logic of The Politics of Identity at Play at
the Camino de Santiago
10: 10 a.m.‐10:45 a.m. Joint Discussion
10:45 a.m.‐11:00 a.m. BREAK
Cultural Landscapes II
Chair: Arnika Peselmann
11:00 a.m.‐11:20 a.m. Ullrich Kockel, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Ulster:
Local/National Stakeholders, the European Landscape Convention and UNESCO Policy: A Case
Study of the Curonian Spit
11:20 a.m.‐11:40 a.m. Andreas Hemming, Philosophische Fakultät II, Institut für Musik Martin‐Luther‐Universität
Halle‐Wittenberg: “Build it and they will come”: Selling World Heritage in Albania
11:40 a.m.‐12:00 p.m. Joint Discussion
Concluding Discussion
Discussants: Regina Bendix, Don Brenneis, Rosemary Coombe,
Philip W. Scher, Laurajane Smith
1:00 p.m. LUNCH / DEPARTURE