Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Common Room, 3rd floor (Fabianinkatu 24)
Conference hashtag: #heritagehcas
The keynote lectures will be streamed online at http://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l29
Wednesday, March 4th 2020
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Opening
09.45–10.45
Keynote I: Laurajane Smith (Australian National University)
Cultural Heritage: Politics, Nationalism and Populism
Chair: David C Harvey (Aarhus University)
10.45–11.00 Coffee/tea break
11.00–13.00
Session 1: Powers and Potentials of Indigenous Heritage
Chair: Suzie Thomas (University of Helsinki)
- Coppélie Cocq (University of Helsinki)
An Indigenous Digital Humanities Perspective on the Production of Cultural Heritage - Andreas Kalkun (University of Helsinki and Estonian Literary Museum)
Translating or Stealing? Translating Seto Songs into Estonian - Rani-Henrik Andersson (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
National Parks as Sites of Cultural Heritage or Re-Indigenization of National Parks - Karina Lukin (University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland)
The Imperial Legacy of the Soviet Indigenous Heritage
13.00–14.15 Lunch break (for speakers, Common room)
14.15–15.45 Session 2: Politics and Negotiations
Chair: Coppélie Cocq (University of Helsinki)
- Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu)
Victory Day in Estonia: Heritage and Folklore - Gertjan Plets (Utrecht University)
Theorising Post-Conflict Heritage: The Politics of the Reconstruction of Palmyra in a Comparative Perspective - Dani Schrire (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Postcards as Heritage? An Autoethnography of an Arrival of a Collection
15.45–16.15 Coffee/tea break
16.15–17:15 Session 3: Emmi Kuittinen (Finland) How to perform laments in the modern society
Chair: Heidi Haapoja-Mäkelä (University of Helsinki)
17.30 Reception, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Common Room, 3rd floor
Thursday, March 5th 2020
09.45 Coffee/tea
10.00–11.00
Keynote II: Kristin Kuutma (University of Tartu)
Critical (Re)conceptualizations in the Politics of Heritage
Chair: Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu)
11.00–11.15 Coffee/tea break
11.15–13.15 Session 4: Constructing and De-/Reconstructing Categories
Chair: Heidi Haapoja-Mäkelä (University of Helsinki)
- Johanna Turunen (University of Jyväskylä)
Challenging the Concept of Cultural Heritage – Towards an Idea of Transcultural Heritage - Katriina Siivonen (University of Turku)
Not Heritage, but the Impact of Heritage - Antti-Ville Kärjä (University of the Arts Helsinki)
Music Heritagisation in Finland: Anything Goes? - Michael Dylan Foster (University of California, Davis)
Intangible Cultural Taxonomies: Practices of Heritage Classification and their Esocultural Effects
13.15–14.30 Lunch break (for speakers, Common room)
14.30–16.00 Session 5: Conceptualization and Practice
Chair: Oona Simolin (University of Helsinki)
- Johanna Enqvist (University of Helsinki)
Classifications, Conceptualisations and Concepts – the Order of Heritage - Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki)
Exploring Memory, Heritage, and Tradition through the Museum Exhibition “Ingrians – Forgotten Finns” - Tuuli Lähdesmäki (University of Jyväskylä) & Katja Mäkinen (University of Jyväskylä)
Constructing ‘European significance’ of cultural heritage in EU heritage policy
16.00–16.30 Coffee/tea break
16.30–17.30 CANCELED!
Session 6: Einar Selvik (Norway) “Regenerating Old Norse Myth and Music”
Chair: Frog (University of Helsinki)
19.00 Dinner (for speakers) Restaurant Shelter (Kanavaranta 7, 00160 Helsinki)
Friday, March 6th 2020
09.45 Coffee/tea
10.00–11.00
Keynote III: Suzie Thomas (University of Helsinki)
‘Dark’ Heritage?
Chair: Johanna Enqvist (University of Helsinki)
11.00–11.15 Coffee/tea break
11.15–13.15 Session 7: Politics of Place
Chair: Rani-Henrik Andersson (University of Helsinki)
- David C Harvey (Aarhus University)
Heritage and Landscape – Everywhere or Nowhere? - Heidi Haapoja-Mäkelä (University of Helsinki)
The Nation of Trees? The Heritagization of Forest Landscape in 21st Century Finland - Oona Silmolin (University of Helsinki)
Heritage Interpretation and the Construction of the National Identity in the Fortress of Suomenlinna, Helsinki - Maunu Häyrynen (University of Turku)
Landscape as Chronotope. Integrating the national past in Finnish landscape
13.15–14.30 Lunch break (for speakers, Common room)
14.30–15.30 Session 8: Girilal Baars (Sweden) Ballads Before and After
Chair: Frog (University of Helsinki)
15.30–16.00 Coffee/tea break
16.00–17.00 Session 9: From Fantasy to Mythologization
Chair: Karina Lukin (University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland)
- Derek Fewster (University of Helsinki)
Global Heritage in Digital Fantasy: Values and Collective Memories in the Game of The Elder Scrolls Online - Frog (University of Helsinki)
Heritage, Semiotic Ideologies and Mythologization
17.00 Closing discussion
Chair: Frog (University of Helsinki)