For all interested in World Heritage – the research project of KULTRANS is hosting “Between dream and reality: Debating the impact of World Heritage Listing” held in Oslo 14-15 November 2013.

The conference will explore the impacts of World Heritage Listing and will address issues such as:

• What impact does World Heritage status have?
• To what extent does the World Heritage transform places?
• More empirically, how does the World Heritage status impact and possibly transform places?
• How is World Heritage status used and does it really generate change?

For more information, have a look at the call for papers. 

Please pass on the information!

It is nearly Christmas now, and I thought it was time to post a wintery photo from a Nordic World Heritage Site so I looked through some photos from a conference in Falun, and came across this one. It is one of the very few World Heritage Sites where I have seen any direct reference to peace – the more general frame of work for UNESCO. I had forgotten this photo all together – and was happy to discover it after having to re-read Di Giovine’s book on the World Heritage as a ‘heritage-scape’ (of peace-keeping).

Postcard Chichen Itza

The world went on. And Chichen Itza is still on the World Heritage List. Time to send a good old postcard!

The university library is making us all feel Christmassy with its new tree. Merry Christmas to all of you hard working research students who will spend your time over books and computers, at the library, in offices or at home.

 

Tikal. Photo from Mayaexpeditions.

…doom, it is important to remember what is less often mentioned in the news these days: Tikal is on the World Heritage List! Indeed, is one of the oldest World Heritage properties, dating back to 1979 and listed as one of the first ‘mixed’ properties – i.e. it was listed for both natural and cultural values.