Heritages of Migration: Moving Stories, Objects and Home

• When:	Back to Calendar » April 5, 2017 – April 10, 2017 (all-day)
  Where:	National Museum of Immigration Buenos Aires Argentina	View Full-Size Map »
  Contact:	Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham [email protected]
  Categories:	Conference Symposia

  Deadline for applications: 14 October 2016

   
  Description
  In their movements between old and new worlds, migrant communities carry with them practices, traditions, objects and stories that are transmitted across new communities and through generations. This conference seeks to explore the layering of global cultures that has been produced by centuries of global migration, and its effect on memory, identity and belonging, as well as its effects on tangible and intangible heritage. The conference is designed to encourage provocative dialogue across the fullest range of disciplines. Thus we welcome papers from academic colleagues in a wide range of fields. Please see the conference website for full details and call for papers.
   
  Participant’s Profile
  Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (IIICH) is a focal point for cross-disciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and policy engagement based at the University of Birmingham. The IIICH is a unique partnership formed over thirty years ago between the University of Birmingham and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (IGMT) which manages the World Heritage Site and ten museums. Our aims are: • To provide a welcoming intellectual home and a creative environment for the critical study of cultural heritage which offers new and challenging perspectives on the ways in which cultural heritage is understood, represented, managed and mobilised in different cultures and societies • To pursue research excellence, policy relevance and to engage with academic and policy communities and the heritage/ heritage-related sectors • To deliver research informed high quality postgraduate education linking theoretical understanding with practice and relevance.
   
  See full details of the call at:
  https://heritagesofmigration.wordpress.com/