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Current issues in heritage and conservation: challenges and opportunities

5 Feb 2020

Heritage and Conservation Annual Half-day Seminar

Freedom Road and its intersections

16 Nov 2019

Second in the Freedom Road workshop series

Replicas in museums and heritage contexts: putting theory into practice

28 Nov 2019

This SGSAH Heritage-Hub day-event, taking place at the National Museums of Scotland Collections Centre, is organised by the University of Stirling in partnership with National Museums Scotland and ICOMOS UK.

Replicas in museum and heritage contexts: co-production of guidance

29 Nov 2019

This half-day workshop is organised by the University of Stirling in partnership with National Museums Scotland (NMS) and ICOMOS UK.

Historic replicas in north-west Europe: current research, future prospects

8 Jan 2020

Explore the implications of new research about the authenticity and value of replicas of historic objects.

Processing the past: digital heritage, collaboration practice and the politics of engagement

29 Oct 2019

Processing the past: digital heritage, collaboration practice and the politics of engagement

The University of Stirling Art Collection and public engagement

15 Oct 2019

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy's Tuesday seminar

Liminal and emotional-affective spatialities in places of remembrance and pilgrimage

2 Oct 2019

Liminal and emotional-affective spatialities in places of remembrance and pilgrimage

Between outbreaks: formation of a permanent European plague reservoir in the 1350s

1 Oct 2019

Between outbreaks: formation of a permanent European plague reservoir in the 1350s

Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey

15 Jan 2020

Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey

Why does the past matter? Emotional attachments to historic urban places

11 Mar 2020

Why does the past matter? Emotional attachments to historic urban places

Cupboards of doom: reflections on researching profusion in homes and museums for heritage futures

12 Nov 2019

Cupboards of doom: reflections on researching profusion in homes and museums for heritage futures

The deep past in Italian Populism: party narratives and grassroots activism

4 Feb 2020

The deep past in Italian Populism: party narratives and grassroots activism

Moving beyond ‘common sense’ discourses of nature and heritage in the Scottish Highlands

31 Mar 2020

Moving beyond ‘common sense’ discourses of nature and heritage in the Scottish Highlands

The past in the present: history, policy and the Scottish landscape

10 Mar 2020

The past in the present: history, policy and the Scottish landscape

Community reuse of redundant Church of Scotland churches

25 Feb 2020

Community reuse of redundant Church of Scotland churches

Materialising the Cold War in Scotland

11 Feb 2020

Materialising the Cold War in Scotland

Where’s the value in sporting heritage?

28 Jan 2020

Where’s the value in sporting heritage?

Urban-riverine hinterland synergies in semi-arid environments: millennial-scale change, adaptations, and environmental responses at Gerasa/Jerash

19 Nov 2019

Urban-riverine hinterland synergies in semi-arid environments: millennial-scale change, adaptations, and environmental responses at Gerasa/Jerash

The past, present and future of energy justice

3 Mar 2020

The past, present and future of energy justice

Wrestling with social value: an examination of methods and approaches for assessing social value in heritage management and conservation

21 Jan 2020

Wrestling with social value: an examination of methods and approaches for assessing social value in heritage management and conservation

Excavating the archive in Cornwall’s china clay country: heritage-making practices and rethinking the role of dissonance in times of change

24 Mar 2020

Excavating the archive in Cornwall’s china clay country: heritage-making practices and rethinking the role of dissonance in times of change

Opening up collections: free training workshop on crowdsourcing, chatbots and 3D

29 Aug 2019 to 30 Aug 2019

Training Workshop of Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum curators

From coal to culture: re-thinking the mining heritage of the Ruhr area

24 Sep 2019

From coal to culture: re-thinking the mining heritage of the Ruhr area

Heritage authenticity in a globalised world

17 Sep 2019

This is a public lecture that forms part of the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy’s regular Tuesday Seminar series.

Making medieval in the age of antiquarians: towards a social network of cross-monuments

18 Sep 2018

Making medieval in the age of antiquarians: towards a social network of cross-monuments

23 January CEHP lunchtime seminar: Dr Michael Penman

23 Jan 2018

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy lunchtime seminar

PhD student awarded grants for her research

23 Jan 2018

The Centre's second-year PhD student Rhona Ramsay has been successful in acquiring a number of grants.

Professor Sian Jones joins Historic Environment Scotland's new External Peer Review Panel

1 Dec 2017

The Centre’s Sian Jones has joined Historic Environment Scotland’s new External Peer Review Panel, which has been set up to review the conservation of historic sites and monuments in the care of Scottish Ministers.

Global Challenges in Cultural Heritage

1 Sep 2017 to 2 Sep 2017

The inaugural international conference on Global Challenges in Cultural Heritage

3 April 2017 CEHP lunchtime seminar - Professor Simon Marsden

3 Apr 2017 to 4 Apr 2017

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy lunchtime seminar

27 March CEHP lunchtime seminar - Amanda-Jane Dolan

28 Mar 2018

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy lunchtime seminar

13 March CEHP lunchtime seminar - Dr Thomas L Muinzer

14 Feb 2017 to 14 Mar 2017

Cetnre for Environment, Heritage and Policy lunchtime seminar

13 February CEHP lunchtime seminar - Dr Gyorgy Toth

14 Feb 2018

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy lunchtime seminar

6 February CEHP lunchtime seminar - Dr Sally Foster

7 Feb 2018

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy lunchtime seminar

PhD student awarded SGSAH internship working with RAJPOT

22 Jan 2018

Rhona Ramsay, a second-year PhD student in the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy, has successfully applied for a self-led internship through the Scottish Graduate School or Arts and Humanities' (SGSAH) Student Development Fund.

21 February lecture on Iona about Concrete and Non-Concrete project

21 Feb 2018

Discover the co-produced digital models

27 February CEHP lunchtime seminar - Louisa Habermann

28 Feb 2018

Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy

My cup of tea: dialogue between a tea drinker and a tea maker

2 Oct 2018

My cup of tea: dialogue between a tea drinker and a tea maker

Nature's big puzzle: in search of geo-environmental origins of the two waves of the fourteenth-century plague, c.1330–60

16 Oct 2018

Nature's big puzzle in search of geo-environmental origins of the two waves of the fourteenth-century plague

Scottish medieval castles and chapels C-14 project

30 Oct 2018

Scottish medieval castles and chapels C-14 project

Risk modelling of erosion on archaeological sites

13 Nov 2018

Risk modelling of erosion on archaeological sites

Social vs. biological values of “nature”: a comparison of “protected areas” in Scotland and Idaho in the American West

20 Nov 2018

This presentation will outline proposed comparative research on the implications of social values associated with protected areas in Scotland and Idaho (as representative of the Intermountain West in the United States).

White society and environmental crises in the Orange Free State Republic (South Africa), 1895–1898

27 Nov 2018

White society and environmental crises in the Orange Free State Republic (South Africa), 1895–1898

Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: energy as a social relation in the Middle East

22 Jan 2019

The Middle East is conventionally viewed as the area of ‘Resource Curses’ and ‘Rentier States’ drawing negative implications for the relationship between nature and humanity. This paper will challenge this conventional wisdom.

Naken chaetrie (Gypsy Traveller objects) in Scottish museums

5 Feb 2019

Naken chaetrie in Scottish museums

Cultural citizenship and participation in crowdsourced heritage ecologies

12 Feb 2019

Cultural citizenship and participation in crowdsourced heritage ecologies

The writing on the wall: ‘mark-making’ and the materiality of travel

26 Feb 2019

The writing on the wall: ‘mark-making’ and the materiality of travel

Writing in a cave from writing on the wall

Protecting the Third Pole: the role of the law

12 Mar 2019

Protecting the Third Pole: the role of the law

Can we rebuild Kasthamandap? Post-disaster heritage in the Kathmandu Valley WHS

19 Mar 2019

Can we rebuild Kasthamandap? Post-disaster heritage in the Kathmandu Valley WHS

Fields into Factories: the impact on the rural landscape of Britain’s expanded war industry, 1936–1945

2 Apr 2019

Fields into Factories: the impact on the rural landscape of Britain’s expanded war industry, 1936–1945

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Heritage and Conservation Seminar - Current issues in heritage and conservation: challenges and opportunities

30 Jan 2019

Leading practitioners will explore current issues in heritage and conservation, supported by concrete examples.

Digital Heritage in a World of Big Data

14 May 2019 to 15 May 2019

The conference will discuss technical and conceptual implications of applying data science in and for heritage studies.

R for Heritage: Training workshop

15 May 2019

Develop your data science skills with us and apply them to your work and research in heritage.

Carbon Majors Inquiry

24 Apr 2019

This is a public event associated with an expert meeting at which the Human Rights Commission of the Philippines will finalise the recommendations closing the so-called Carbon Majors inquiry.

The Ruralia XIII Conference: Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside

9 Sep 2019 to 13 Sep 2019

RURALIA is an international association for the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval settlement and rural life. It provides a conference of current research questions in rural archaeology from most participating European countries to strengthen the exchange of knowledge in, and the development of, archaeologically comparable studies, and to make archaeological results available to other disciplines.

Masterclass on early medieval sculpture in Scotland / Book launch

7 May 2020

Masterclass on early medieval sculpture in Scotland / Book launch My Life as a Replica: St John’s Cross, Iona

Colliery Creatives: an exploration of landscape, identity and place

16 Apr 2020

Colliery Creatives will feature art, film, poetry and song exploring Scotland’s Coal Mining history, heritage and communities.

Landscape Legacies of Coal: One Year Birthday Celebration

2 Apr 2020

A programme of talks highlighting the Coal App’s first year of operation with cake and coffee. Book your free ticket

Launch of Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment webinar series on ‘Human Rights Strategies in Climate Change Litigation’

8 Jun 2020

The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment is launching a webinar series on ‘Human Rights Strategies in Climate Change Litigation’. Each webinar will focus on a different region of the world, providing a perspective on how human rights strategies are being used in climate litigation before national and regional judicial and quasi-judicial bodies.

Ask me anything about St John’s Cross, Iona: Celebrating the 50th-anniversary of the St John’s Cross replica

6 Jun 2020

The St John’s Cross replica on Iona is 50 years old on 6 June 2020. To mark this event, the Centre’s Dr Sally Foster will be answering questions about the life of the St John’s Cross, and its copies in the context of Iona and why replicas matter.

Disposals - livestream Q&A

15 May 2020

Online, video available to view

Moving beyond ‘common-sense’ discourses of nature and heritage in the Scottish Highlands

29 Sep 2020

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

Remembering homeland and representing diaspora in virtual museums (or now to conduct fieldwork during lockdown)

20 Oct 2020

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

‘The time is out of joint’: memory, geopolitics, and the ambivalent temporalities of Hizbullah's Resistance Tourism Museum, Lebanon

10 Nov 2020

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

Social media research relating to the resilience of small heritage organisations during the pandemic

1 Dec 2020

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

Pilgrimage, consumption and rituals: spiritual authenticity in a Shia Muslim pilgrimage

9 Feb 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

The past in the present: history, policy and the Scottish landscape

23 Feb 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

‘Brought alive and alight’: community reuse of Scottish churches

9 Mar 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

Bringing back the ‘wee trees’: upland habitat restoration at Scotland’s natural treeline

23 Mar 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

City development contested: Patrick Geddes, heritage and civic improvement in Dunfermline (1904)

4 May 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

The past, present and future of energy justice

18 May 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

Excavating the archive in Cornwall’s china clay country: heritage-making practices and rethinking the role of dissonance in times of change

1 Jun 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

After the #fall: The shadow of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Capetown

4 Nov 2020

This seminar takes the form of a 25-minute paper, three responses and a wider discussion. Respondents: Dr Chiara Bonacchi, Dr Stephen Bowman and Dr Clemens Hoffmann. Chair: Professor Sian Jones

Why does the past matter? Emotional attachments to historic urban places

7 Apr 2021

This seminar takes the form of a paper from the speaker followed by discussion (we’ll aim to use both discussion and chat functions of Teams).

Powerstation for event: why does the past matter emotional attachments to historic urban places

Heritage, empire and slavery: current issues in heritage and conservation

12 May 2021

Leading practitioners will explore current issues in heritage, empire, and slavery, supported by concrete examples drawn from their own experience, particularly challenges and opportunities.