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Devastation and re-settlement of landscapes
- Venue: Heidelberg
- Start: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:45:00 BST
- End: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:45:00 BST
The importance of rootedness in an individually charged landscape is highlighted in the (post-) modern and globalised world as being a key ingredient to mental and bodily well-being and positive identity-formation. In the aftermath of the Yugoslavian wars of the 1990s, and of other 20th and 21st century dystopian experiences like the genocide of the Rohinga in Myanmar, the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars and, most recently, the Russian attack on Ukraine, the damages caused to well-being and identity by the devastation of heritage has started to receive attention. Concern about climate change has led landscape researchers to explore the impact of major ‘natural’ (generally compounded by humans) catastrophe and change caused by wildfires, floods, tsunami, earthquakes, volcanic events or sealevel-rise. However, there has been much less research into the impact of human-caused, deliberate landscape devastation and even less research on the re-shaping of landscapes and identities in the immediate aftermath of such apocalyptic experiences. In this workshop we looked at systematic, theoretically informed considerations grounded in individual instances of landscape devastation, re-settlement and re-shaping of identities in its aftermath. A wide variety of cultural and historical contexts is highly appreciated.
Program
Wednesday, 12th April Presentation of the project's core areas & Keynote Lecture
9.30 – 10 am Welcome
Sam Turner & Thomas Meier
10 – 11 am Introduction to the theoretical bones of the project
Stelios Lekakis & Graham Fairclough
11:30 am – 1.30 pm Devastation of the Palatinate in the Nine-Years-War 1689-1698
Nikola Vuletic
3 – 5 pm Emigration and re-settlement of Palatines in Ireland and Northern America around 1700
Julia van Duijvenvoorde
6.30 – 8 pm Public Keynote Lecture : When reconstruction is not enough. Rebuilding society after violent conflict
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Thursday, 13th April Excursion & Contributions Parts 1
9am – 1pm City Tour: Old Town of Heidelberg
Thomas Meier
2 – 3.30pm Imperial Collapse, Demographic Engineering, and the Transformation of Memoryscapes – Lessons from Late- and Post-Ottoman Anatolia
Carsten Paludan-Mùˆller
Archaeology, heritage and the Asia Minor Catastrophe 1919- 1922
Stelios Lekakis
4 – 5.30pm Beyond devastation: Iraqi Christians mobilising the collective memory to negotiate a fragile present
Niveen Kassem
Re-shaping of landscapes and identities in the immediate aftermath of ISIS
Mark Jackson
