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Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral is set to reopen more than five years after a devastating fire. The blaze and its aftermath have fueled debates about the funding of France’s cultural heritage.
Around 50% of heritage sites in the Gaza Strip have been damaged, with many structures near-demolished.
From restoring ancient texts to immersive meditation, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
When it comes to protection for refugees on the basis of cultural heritage loss, there are very few pathways available.
A fire that destroyed St. Anne’s Church in Toronto serves as a reminder that cultural legacy needs to be conserved and protected from disaster.
Shipwrecks and their cargo can be sites of conflict – but also opportunity.
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
This could see different festivals, folklore or traditional tales, Morris dancing and certain skills and crafts protected.
By targeting a restaurant owner who identifies with a specific cuisine, the protester makes that one person responsible for the actions of an entire group or country.
In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.
Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
One criticism of current 3D models of archaeological sites is that they are presented devoid of human traces and history.
The Punan Batu is one of the most active nomadic hunter-gatherer groups still existing in the world. They have unique characteristics that are different from other groups in Borneo.
For Australia’s saltwater people, the migration routes of humpback whales represents an important songline
Traditional earthen building cultures are often wrongly described as ‘primitive’ and blamed for their own destruction.
From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.
For this podcast we caught up with Western Australian Premier Roger Cook, and canvassed issues like the cultural heritage law backdown, and the Voice.
The Victorian Supreme Court has determined the descendants of Ned Kelly’s family are not a distinctive cultural group with the right to protections of their ‘intangible cultural heritage’.
This year, 32 years after Latvia’s independence, the festival boasted over 40,000 participants including almost 3,000 from Latvia’s diaspora.
Top contributors
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Historian and Heritage Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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Research Manager, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Honorary Fellow (Philosophy), Durham University
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, Newcastle University
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Research fellow, University of Brighton
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Engaged Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
