Culture in Motion

Aim

After completion of the course the student will be able to:

• Critically discuss the interaction between culture, history and social change in specific contexts
• Problematize contemporary methods in critical heritage studies and apply them to case studies
• Identify problem areas and knowledge gaps in critical heritage studies
• Account for and discuss different interdisciplinary and international perspectives in cultural heritage research
• Critically discuss the relation between local and global heritage

Content

The world today is more connected than ever before, yet we often tend to cling to universalistic and simplistic notions of the cultural heritages of its many societies. In the midst of misunderstanding and lack of translation of the cultural heritage concept, the ‘local’ is constantly clashing with the ‘global’. Different academic disciplines struggle to develop research methods that address this dynamicity and overcome often misleading binaries. This course provides current tools and concepts to develop research practices that are interdisciplinary, collaborative, and applicable to a variety of specific contexts. It builds an understanding of the multi-faceted interdependency of cultural heritage while identifying both local and global ways of thinking and bridging them through learned research practices.