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Dr. Kisha G. Tracy
Fitchburg State University
ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu
"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
“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
Hereford Mappa Mundi
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kosho/albums/72157672907051271
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
Uli Westphal
http://uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html
"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)
Instead of causing further separation with world heritage, does this approach find ways rather to understand it within a "local" context?
Is the experience of non-premodernists (ex. students) to the medieval all that different?
Libraries
Librarians
Soldiers
Archaeologists
Alexandria
c. 3rd century BCE-c.30 BCE
2002, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Cotton
c. 17th century, United Kingdom
Fire: 1731
List of Destroyed Libraries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries
Khaled al-Asaad
1932-2015
Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities for the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Why do people risk their lives to save cultural heritage?
“[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”
Are copies the same as the originals? Why do we create copies? Should we?
What about images?
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/expedia-ancient-sites-neomam-03-16-2018/
Military Playing Cards
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/monumentswoman/
How can cultural heritage both incite and heal trauma?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/controversial-statues-monuments-destroyed.html
damnatio memoriae
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?
Sponsors:
Partners:
Fitchburg State University students/alum:
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
Digital Exhibition:
http://culturalheritagethroughimage.omeka.net/
Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/culturalheritagethroughimage/
https://culturalheritagethroughimage.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=hammondexhibition
Photographer: Allison St. Peter
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Madison Whitten
Photographer: Katie Duncan
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Olivia Grant
Photographer: Sonia Marks