Critical Heritage
master
University of Trieste (Italy)
Blended
Roberta Altin, Tullia Catalan
English
Summary
The course is divided into two modules: "An Anthopological Approach to Critical Heritage" and "A Historical Approach to Critical Heritage".
Enrollment requirements
The course assumes a basic knowledge of the anthropological concept of heritage; to fill any gaps consult R. Harrison, Heritage: Critical Approaches, London 2013. The course is for MA students, but BA students in their 2nd and 3rd year are welcome. Interested participants should send a motivation letter to t4eu@units.it To attend online, please connect via the following link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3Aq7wbp2_0OD6LRQ4ySGQevsLX43lVF4Dk0CYWBk0uj-s1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=a53759fc-e845-4306-8c8a-554f9cdd44e1&tenantId=a54b3635-128c-460f-b967-6ded8df82e75
Description
The course offers an introduction to the concept of critical heritage from an anthropological perspective; more specifically it focuses on the meaning of European heritage as a construction of common cultural practices and as a creative, dialogic engagement between people, objects, places and practices. As a shared course in the European University Alliance Network T4EU it will explore different European heritages as a series of processes, rather than as inherited products to be preserved, using comparative approaches and encouraging an observation of heterogeneous heritage processes in a transgenerational and interdisciplinary perspective that goes beyond the nature/culture dichotomy. Harrison R. et al. (eds). Heritage Futures Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices, UCL Press, London 2020.
Available at: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/heritage-futures
At the end of the course, the student must demonstrate knowledge of the anthropological methodology applied to the concept of european critical heritage; he/she will be able to apply the knowledge acquired to strengthen the critical sense in the analysis of heritage processes, using methodological tools to work with awareness in the various areas involved with the processes of conservation and construction of heritage in the European alliance. At the end of the course, the student must be able to express his/her opinion on the heritage processes analyzed in class, also with the help of the teaching material in the exam program, demonstrating that he/she knows how to use a critical vision and approach to the major interpretative categories analyzed during the course. Communication skills: at the end of the course, the student must demonstrate that he/she is able to reconstruct in a multidisciplinary perspective with an appropriate language in English, the major anthropological themes linked to the concept of critical heritage, exploring them in an autonomous manner.
https://units.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2025/120871/2024/2/10606?annoOrdinamento=2024&coorte=2024
Enrollment Closed
Open only to T4EU students
6
30 Hours
25 September 2025
12 December 2025
17 Sep - 24 Sep 2025
