Event Description
A roundtable on documentary sources, heritage politics, and civic engagement.
In this two-day roundtable, we bring together a group of researchers and conservators in the fields of classics, papyrology, late antiquity, history and Area studies to discuss and reflect on the interface of methodological and ethical challenges they have encountered while working with artifacts and documentary sources. We aim to present new research and innovative takes on issues connected to cultural heritage, heritage politics, and to our fields’ epistemologies. We want to highlight the various ways in which document experts deal with particular challenges as well as structural limitations. What new problems (ethical, political, methodological) does our working with documents collections keep generating? In what ways does the use of pre-arranged collections or previously excavated sites influence our historical research, or even determine the historical questions we ask of our documents? How do “layers” of collected items shape our relationship to individual texts?
Speakers and participants:
Monica Hanna (Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport); Luise Loges (Glasgow University); Roberta Mazza (Manchester University); Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar (Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin); Mathura Umachandran (Cornell University); Donna Yates (Maastricht University); Usama Gad (Ain Shams University-Heidelberg University); Maxim Nasra, Stéphane Ipert (Qatar National Library); Josef Ženka (Charles University of Prague); Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto); Alison Gascoigne (Southampton University); Daisy Livingston (University of Hamburg); Diana Natermann (Leiden University); Karolína Švandová (Charles University of Prague); Zsuzanna Végh (British Museum).
Organizers: Cecilia Palombo & EmCo team.
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