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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
