Stanford Heritage Ethics
MISSION
Stanford Heritage Ethics (SHE) is an inter-disciplinary group that aims to situate our treatment of heritage firmly within the issues of ethics, politics, memory, nationalism, internationalism, musealization, materiality, conservation, development, aid, governmentality, tourism, repatriation, cultural property, intellectual property, collaborations, indigenous archaeology, restitution, codes and declarations from which they are inseparable.
GOALS
Our practical goals will be to:
- provide feedback on conferences and events, news sharing, assemble bibliographies
- read each others' research, present projects
- invite speakers, establish international networks
- organize workshops, conference sessions, and our own mini-conferences at Stanford
- share publishing, journals and possibly books
MEMBERS
Lynn Meskell, Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center | Lindsay Der |
| Cherkea Howery, SHE Coordinator | Elizabeth Rosen |
| Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels | Lauren Yapp |
| Trinidad Rico | Sophia Labadi |
| Rachel Ama-asaa Engmann | Lindsay Weiss |
| Helen Clare Human | Alex Larrave |
| Maria Fernanda Escallon | Adrian Myers |
| Alexandra Celia Kelly | Fanya Becks |
| Joshua Samuels | Cori Fenwick |
| Lindsay Montgomery | Claudia Liuzza |
| Erich Matthes, University of California at Berkeley | Guido Pezzarossi |
| Ian Simpson | |
| Deepa Mehta | Paulla Ebron |
| Rita Lomio | Sheahan Bestel |
| Yasemin Ipek | Andrea Milly |
UPCOMING HERITAGE EVENTS
NETWORKS
Leiden-Stanford Heritage Network
The Leiden-Stanford Heritage Network (LSHN) represents an effort to establish a globally accessible web-based platform through which archaeological ethnographers, public scholars, activists and community members can engage in dialog and debate about the meaning of heritage as a rapidly evolving concept.
Administrators:
Dr. Carolyn Nakamura (Leiden University)
Dr. Lindsay Weiss (Stanford Archaeology Center)
LINKS TO HERITAGE SOURCES:
- New York Times article about UNESCO's listed heritage: "What Does Unesco Recognition Mean, Exactly?"
- Gustafsson, Anders and Hakan Karlsson. "A Spectre is Haunting Sweeding Archaeology: The Spectre of Politics." Current Swedish Archaeology. Vol. 19, 2011.
- Course: “Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous Cultures” taught by the School of Social Sceince at the University of Queensland to be held in Florence, Italy in July 2012.
- PhD Scholarship in the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization under Dr. Ben Isakhan at Deakin University in Melbourne: Measuring the Destruction of Heritage and Spikes of Violence in Iraq. Also see: http://www.jason.edu.au/scholarship.pl?id=5790&page=1
- Antipoda: Revista de Anthropología y Arqueología, co-edited by PhD Candidate María Fernanda Escallón
- "Understanding Global Heritage" is a new series of textbooks that offer an introduction to critical heritage studies, published by Manchester University Press in association with The Open University.
- The latest issue of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
- Check out: the International Social Science Journal issue that focuses on cultural diversity, edited by Sophia Labadi.
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights directed by Judith Dueck claims to “play an essential role… in preserving and promoting the heritage of Canada and all its peoples throughout Canada and abroad and in contributing to the collective memory and sense of identity of all Canadians” in accordance with the Museums Act of Canada.
- The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and partners launched this website focused on biological heritage
- Illicit Antiquities and Global Criminal Markets Scholarship 2012 offered by the University of Glasgow, due on April 27, 2012
- The new journal, "Museum Worlds," is soliciting papers, please see: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/
STANFORD HERITAGE ETHICS WORKSHOP
We have constructed this space as a forum for sharing ideas, workshopping papers, and discussing readings related to issues of ethical practice in archaeology and heritage management.
If you are interested in joining us, please subscribe to our list by visiting:
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/heritage_ethics
We would like to use this list to circulate interesting articles, ask questions, and offer feedback to the group.
For questions or concerns, please contact us at: HeritageEthics@gmail.com
PAST EVENTS
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5pm Bldg 500- Dr. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University), “Does Heritage Conservation Always Mean Gentrification? Reflections on case studies from Greece, Italy, and Thailand” Click here to view reading materials
The Program on Human Rights Collaboratory: Cultural Heritage Workshop series - http://humanrights.stanford.edu/events/
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:30pm Bldg 500- Archaeology Today workshop presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Greene entitled, “Law, Ethics, and Archaeology: Cesnola's Treasures beneath the Sea”
Monday, October 24, 2011, 12pm Bldg 50- Anthropology Brown Bag Series presentation by member Cherkea Howery.
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 12pm Bldg 500- SHE workshop meeting with presentations by Prof. Lynn Meskell and Claudia Liuzza. *For copies of papers, please e-mail HeritageEthics@gmail.com or chowery@stanford.edu
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 5:30pm Bldg 500- Archaeology Today workshop presentation by Dr. Melissa Baird entitled, “"Why Heritage Matters to the Social and Environmental Sciences."
April 18, 2011: Mario E. Santana-Quintero presenting “Protecting the integrity of UNESCO World Heritage properties: the role of heritage information in decision making”
April 5, 2011: Des Kahotea presenting “Maori Heritage and Motiti Island"
January 20, 2011: Sophia Labadi presenting her research, “Is Intangible Cultural Heritage the Future of Heritage Management?”
December 2, 2010: Webber Ndoro presenting, “Managing Africa’s Cultural and Natural Heritage challenges”
November 4, 2010: Mechtild Rössler presenting, “World Heritage – A Global Responsibility”
November 1, 2010: Meeting focusing on cultural landscape.
October 25, 2010: Informal discussion and meeting with Haidy Geismar, Assistant Professor of Museum Studies and Anthropology at New York University (http://anthropology.as.nyu.edu/object/HaidyGeismar.html). Professor Geismar researches cultural property issues and intellectual property rights in the Pacific.
October 11, 2010: Discussion led by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. His work varies from researching ethics and Native American perspectives to heritage management and preservation. http://www.dmns.org/science/curators/chip-colwell-chanthaphonh
He challenged participants to think about the labels we use to identify our work in addition to methodologies and the ethical issues that we confront in our research.
September 27, 2010: Our organizational meeting highlighted potential themes and readings related to UNESCO, World Heritage, community archaeology, and methodology. We plan on exploring these topics further in a creative atmosphere and comfortable environment. Because of the many visitors the Archaeology Center will be receiving, we would like to focus on specific research our guests have completed to better prepare for their arrival and to engage them in lively discussion.