Reconsidering Heritage, Memory and the Postcolonial Museum

2019-04-22

Topic : Reconsidering Heritage, Memory and the Postcolonial Museum
Time : 2019/4/22，14:30-16:30
Venue : Room C203, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University
Speaker：Dr. Michael Rowlands 
*English speech

This talk will focus on the relationship between different academic debates concerning memory studies, critical heritage and the post-colonial museum. It will outline their differences and suggest they all share a concern with fears of loss of identity and a responsibility to remember. While exploring the relationship between the ideas of collective memory and building identities, we can discuss the reasons why a focus on commemoration and duty to remember motivates many authorised heritage discourses, but we can also consider how counter memory generates resistance to authorised remembering and the collective sense of identity. The rising importance of heritage as a national discourse is met often with alternative narratives generated through the means of exhibition and display. The case of the Vietnam National Museum of History will be cited during the presentation.

Speaker's biography 
Dr. Michael Rowlands 
Co-Director of Centre for Research in the Dynamics of Civilization, UCL
Lead Convenor, Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, UCL. Co Director with University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 
Honorary Professor, Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Material Culture, and Senior Research Fellow, UCL.

 

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經費來源： 高等教育深耕計畫─特色領域研究中心計畫：「衝突、正義、解殖：亞際社會批判研究」 
主辦單位：國立交通大學/台聯大系統文化研究國際中心，國立清華大學人文社會學院學士班