The journal Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, invites submissions for: Our…
On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of UNESCO’s adoption of the World Heritage Convention, the heritage community should reflect on what it has achieved….
The World Heritage label emanates from the 1972 UNESCO Convention. The Convention is the instrument that is mostly used for celebrating the world’s heritage, of…
Over the past two decades, heritage has become a political instrument in the nation-building portfolio of the Kremlin. To restore Russia as a great geopolitical…
Muslim heritage has been an influential factor in the emergence of UNESCO’s 1972 Convention, whose priorities build extensively on decades of engagement with heritage places…
The word “displacement” is typically not associated with cultural heritage sites, but in this paper I draw on ethnographic vignettes to foreground the process at…
On November 16, 1945, forty-four nations gathered in London to forge an international body for educational and cultural cooperation under the aegis of the United…
In an interview for ABC’s This Week, in May 2020, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo affirmed various “lab-leak” narratives circulating in the public domain by…
Where are the Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong? Between the 1970s and 1990s, more than 230,000 Vietnamese arrived in Hong Kong seeking asylum. The…
On November 16, 2009, then prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd stood before the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, and delivered…
Blackwell’s Island, now called Roosevelt Island, was originally a remote location be-tween Manhattan and Queens where New York City confined petty criminals, the men-tally disabled,…
Lazarettos function through webs of exclusion. One of the governors (intendants sanitaires) of Marseille’s famous Lazaret d’Arenc emphasized that he could not bring his own…
Recognized as one of the most ambitious urban expansion projects in history, the seventeenth- century “Grand Expansion” of Amsterdam into a half- moon configuration exemplifies…
In the early stages of my research on the history of Philadelphia’s Lazaretto quarantine station, which was built to protect the city after four devastating…
Change Over Time is pleased to announce the launch of 11.1 Quarantine – Legacies of Isolation. Places of isolation, detention, and quarantine reveal often unspoken…
