Concrete on Campus | Susan Holden

Concrete on Campus | Susan Holden

Material Values of Late Modern Campus Buildings Late modern concrete buildings that were a cornerstone of post–World War II university expansion in Australia are reaching…

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Enduring Guardians & Emergent Guarantors | Dr. Fallon Samuels Aidoo

Enduring Guardians & Emergent Guarantors | Dr. Fallon Samuels Aidoo

Enduring Guardians and Emergent Guarantors of African American Place Preservation an Martha’s Vineyard and Beyond Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island profiled in the National Museum…

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Hue-Manizing “Black Space” | Kwesi Daniels

Hue-Manizing “Black Space” | Kwesi Daniels

In 2003, Jennifer Newsom, then a second-year architecture graduate student at Yale University asked her professor, ‘Why aren’t we studying black [architecture]? The professor replied,…

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Migration as Resistance? | Chrislyn Laurie Laurore & Craig Stevens

Migration as Resistance? | Chrislyn Laurie Laurore & Craig Stevens

Liberia and The Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Research Project In 1822, Black American settlers seeking respite from racialized persecution in the United States arrived at…

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More Than Urban Mining | Susan Ross

More Than Urban Mining | Susan Ross

Salvaging Modern Material Discards for Meaningful Reuse As redevelopment of already built-up sites expands in North American cities, tearing down large modern buildings is also…

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Material Matters | Frank Matero

Material Matters | Frank Matero

It’s a material world. The paper or digital issue you are now reading is only possible through the complex assemblage of raw materials that have…

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Call for Abstracts: Open Call 

Call for Abstracts: Open Call 

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…

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Future Promise | Nada Hosking

Future Promise | Nada Hosking

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….

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World Heritage Convention at Fifty Years Old: Shifting to Outstanding Heritage Management Practices | Eugene Jo, Webber Ndoro

World Heritage Convention at Fifty Years Old: Shifting to Outstanding Heritage Management Practices | Eugene Jo, Webber Ndoro

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…

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World Heritage and Cultural Statecraft in Putin's Russia: Patriotic Agendas, Flexible Power Relations, and Geopolitical Ambitions | Gertjan Plets & Linda Van Der Pol 

World Heritage and Cultural Statecraft in Putin’s Russia: Patriotic Agendas, Flexible Power Relations, and Geopolitical Ambitions | Gertjan Plets & Linda Van Der Pol 

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…

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Muslim Heritage Preservation Stewardship Under UNESCO | Trinidad Rico

Muslim Heritage Preservation Stewardship Under UNESCO | Trinidad Rico

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…

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World Heritage Subjects or Citizens? Geographical Imaginations and Displacements of Local Communities | Krupa Rajangam

World Heritage Subjects or Citizens? Geographical Imaginations and Displacements of Local Communities | Krupa Rajangam

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…

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Saving the World: Fifty Years of the Convention, Conservation, and Collaboration | Lynn Meskell, Claudia Liuzza

Saving the World: Fifty Years of the Convention, Conservation, and Collaboration | Lynn Meskell, Claudia Liuzza

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…

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Anticipating a COVID-19 Memorial: Quarantine and Migration Heritage as a Template? | Gareth Hoskins, Joanne Maddern

Anticipating a COVID-19 Memorial: Quarantine and Migration Heritage as a Template? | Gareth Hoskins, Joanne Maddern

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…

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Fluid Land: Vietnamese Refugee Camps and Hong Kong | Juliana Kei, Daniel M. Cooper

Fluid Land: Vietnamese Refugee Camps and Hong Kong | Juliana Kei, Daniel M. Cooper

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…

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