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Dr. Kisha G. Tracy

Fitchburg State University

ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu

What Is Cultural Heritage?

Cultural Heritage

"Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations."

-UNESCO

Lament of Loss

“I also remembered how I saw, before it had all been ravaged and burnt, how the churches throughout all England stood filled with treasures and books.”

- Translation, "Preface to the Pastoral Care,"

Alfred the Great, late ninth century

Lament of Loss

Medieval Experiences

Medieval Experiences

Cartography

Hereford Mappa Mundi

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kosho/albums/72157672907051271

Cartography

"Travel" Experiences

Travel

Experiences

Marvels of the East, opening, fol. 039v-040r, early twelfth century, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

http://libguides.slu.edu/c.php?g=185815&p=1228277

Elephas Anthropogenus

Uli Westphal

http://uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html

Animals

Anachronisms

Anachronism

"I haue holden my hetyng;

Haue a bob of cherys." (ll. 1035-36)

"I bryng the bot a ball:

Haue and play the withall,

And go to the tenys." (ll. 1060-62)

The Second Shepherds' Play

La Chronique Anonyme Universelle, 15th cent. (on display at the Morgan)

Question

Instead of causing further separation with world heritage, does this approach find ways rather to understand it within a "local" context?

Question

Is the experience of non-premodernists (ex. students) to the medieval all that different?

Question

Stories

Connections

Libraries

Librarians

Soldiers

Archaeologists

Libraries

Alexandria

c. 3rd century BCE-c.30 BCE

2002, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Cotton

c. 17th century, United Kingdom

Fire: 1731

Libraries

List of Destroyed Libraries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries

Librarians

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu 2016, Joshua Hammer

Librarians

Images

Soldiers

Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section

(Monuments Men)

Tony Clark, British Royal Horse Artillery, WWII

(The Resurrection, Piero della Francesca, c. 1460 )

Archaeologists

Khaled al-Asaad

1932-2015

Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities for the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Images

Questions

Why Save?

Why do people risk their lives to save cultural heritage?

Why Destroy?

“[T]he most common reasons that have led to the intentional destruction of cultural property in the last 25 years [as] military necessity, psychological warfare, inter-ethnic hatred, religious radicalism, and planned/opportunistic looting...the clashing forces have intentionally attacked the cultural property to whom their rivals were emotionally tied in order to gain certain psychological effect.”

-Alberto Frigerio, “Heritage Under Attack: A Critical Analysis of the Reasons Behind the Destruction of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict”

Copies?

Are copies the same as the originals? Why do we create copies? Should we?

What about images?

Palmyra Arch

Political Art

Digital recreations

Digital Recreations

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/expedia-ancient-sites-neomam-03-16-2018/

Minimizing Threats?

Military Playing Cards

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/monumentswoman/

Minimizing Threats?

Trauma?

How can cultural heritage both incite and heal trauma?

Monuments

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/controversial-statues-monuments-destroyed.html

Monuments

damnatio memoriae

Significance?

If people have died to protect cultural heritage, if it is one of the first targets in times of war, if it is protected by international law, and if it inspires important questions, then is the study of cultural heritage inherently significant?

Cultural Heritage Through Image

Sponsors/Partners

Sponsors:

  • Mass Cultural Council
  • Freedom's Way National Heritage Area
  • Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education: 2017 Professional Development Award
  • Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Endowment: 2017-18 Funding Award
  • Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library at Fitchburg State University
  • Fitchburg State University English Studies Department
  • Fitchburg State University Communications Media Department
  • Fitchburg Art Museum
  • Hammond Castle Museum
  • African Festival of Boston

Partners:

  • Bigelow Free Public Library
  • Boston Preservation Alliance
  • Boys and Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster
  • Fitchburg Historical Society
  • Integrated Heritage Project
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • Preservation Massachusetts
  • Roger Williams University: Library and the Center for Scholarship, Assessment, Learning, Teaching and Technology

Collaborators

Fitchburg State University students/alum:

  • English Studies
  • Photography
  • Communications Media
  • Education

Fitchburg State University faculty/staff

Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) participants

Historical society members

Boys and Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster students

Community members: Fitchburg, Leominster, Clinton, etc.

University faculty/staff: Roger Williams, Keene State

Collaborators

The Exhibition

The

Exhibition

Digital Exhibition:

http://culturalheritagethroughimage.omeka.net/

Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/culturalheritagethroughimage/

Hammond Castle

https://culturalheritagethroughimage.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=hammondexhibition

Hammond Castle

Oxford University

Fitchburg State University

Photographer: Allison St. Peter

Giovanni Boccaccio

Joseph Palmer

Photographer:

Madison Whitten

Gorms Høj

Forest Hill Cemetery

Photographer: Katie Duncan

Roskilde Viking Ship

Whydah Pirate Gally

Photographer:

Allison St. Peter

Saint Galgano

The Westford Knight

Photographer:

Olivia Grant

Giulia della Rena

Rose Hawthorne

Giulia della Rena

Rose Hawthorne

African

Theme

African Themed

Black Madonna

Saint Maurice

Frederick Douglass

Statue of Boudicca

Statue of Harriet Tubman

Boudicca

Harriet Tubman

Photographer: Sonia Marks

Seville Cathedral

African Meeting House

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