Living Heritage: Challenges in the politics of ownership and belonging

Join us on the latest CMR seminar series.

The event will bring together scholars working with the concept and context of living heritage that either constrains or enhances diversity, minority positions and dimensions of indigeneity. The proposed approach will consider the relevant framework spelt out by international UN agencies like UNESCO and their legal instruments of conventions that provide a political background to social, cultural and environmental challenges and concerns, including Sustainable Development Goals. At the same time, this does not limit our discussions but allows a broader outlook extending from local communities and practices to governmental policies and global heritage regimes.
This seminar invites us to reconsider how we conceptualise heritage mobility, accessibility, inclusion, and exclusion through embodied practices and experiences with a focus on minorities. How are minorities addressed, or do minorities position themselves in this framework? What kind of agency dynamics become instrumental? What kind of political claims are generated or subdued?

**The seminar series will be submitted as an edited volume to an international press**