Location / Year

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

(July 2023)

Description

invited keynote for the closing session for the VI CHAM (The Centre for the Humanities) International Conference: Heritage for a Common Future/Futures for a Common Heritage

July 2023: VI CHAM (The Centre for the Humanities) International Conference:

Location / Year

Online: COVID-19

(August 2020)

Description

co-organiser of the fifth biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies on ‘Futures’, which ran from August 26-30 and was moved entirely online due to Covid-19. The conference included 822 presentations and 1130 registered participants from 74 different countries (https://achs2020london.com). As part of this I was the convener of the ‘Conflict Heritage and Conflicted Heritages’ and the ‘Environmental Change and the Anthropocene’ sub-themes.

August 2020: fifth biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies

Location / Year

Keynes Library, Birkbeck
University of London

(April 2020)

Description

co-organiser of ‘(Post)conflict ecologies: rethinking the afterlives of conflict and violence in more-than-human worlds’ workshop

Location / Year

University of Lisbon, Portugal

(December 2019)

Description

invited workshop lead, CHEurope Joint Research Seminar, Comparative approaches to heritage in Europe

December 2019: Comparative approaches to heritage in Europe

Location / Year

Stockholm, Sweden

(November 2019)

Description

invited speaker, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Higher Seminar

November 2019: Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment

Location / Year

University of Birkbeck, London

(November 2019)

Description

speaker at the HCA Lunchtime Research Seminars

Location / Year

World Cultures Museum,
Gothenburg, Sweden

(November 2019)

Description

invited plenary speaker, University of Gothenburg Centre for Critical Heritage Studies Annual International Symposium “Critical Heritage Studies: Current Discourses and Global Challenges”

Location / Year

UCL, London

(June 2019)

Description

invited speaker, AHRC/UKRI Heritage Research Workshop: Develop & Write Successful Grant Applications

Location / Year

University of Helsinki, Finland

(May 2019)

Description

invited speaker, Archaeology Seminar Series “When 21st Century Conflict Archaeology meets 20th Century Wars in Europe, South America and the Middle East”

May 2019: Archaeology Seminar Series

Location / Year

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

(September 2018)

Description

invited speaker, “Unruly Heritage research seminar”, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø, Norway and Kilpisjärvi, Finland

Location / Year

Senate House, London

(September 2018)

Description

invited speaker, International Symposium on “Deterritorialising the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene”, organised by AHRC Heritage Priority Area

Location / Year

University of Hertfordshire, London

(May 2018)

Description

invited speaker, “DHeritage (The Professional Doctorate in Heritage) Workshop”

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Asunción, Paraguay

Reconfigured statue of Paraguay’s dictator Alfredo Stroessner in the Plaza de los Desaparecidos in Asunción. Nunca más, never again.

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Asunción, Paraguay

Reconfigured statue of Paraguay’s dictator Alfredo Stroessner in the Plaza de los Desaparecidos in Asunción. Nunca más, never again.

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Ban Naphia, Laos

‘Spoon Village’: heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, this small town turns unexploded munitions into utensils.

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Ban Naphia, Laos

‘Spoon Village’: heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, this small town turns unexploded munitions into utensils.

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Colonia Fernheim, Paraguay

Trébol cemetery: One of many cemeteries holding the remains of Chaco War soldiers

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Colonia Fernheim, Paraguay

Trébol cemetery: One of many cemeteries holding the remains of Chaco War soldiers

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Nommern, Luxembourg

Arborglyph/tree graffiti most likely made by US soldier stationed in the forests of Luxembourg during the Second World War

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Nommern, Luxembourg

Arborglyph/tree graffiti most likely made by US soldier stationed in the forests of Luxembourg during the Second World War

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Svalbard, Norway

Global Seed Vault

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Svalbard, Norway

Global Seed Vault

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School of Biosciences, Cardiff University

Assembling and conserving biodiversity in a Frozen Ark

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School of Biosciences, Cardiff University

Assembling and conserving biodiversity in a Frozen Ark

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Fortín Nanawa, Presidente Hayes, Paraguay

Remnants of conflict from the Chaco War in the Paraguayan bush

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Fortín Nanawa, Presidente Hayes, Paraguay

Remnants of conflict from the Chaco War in the Paraguayan bush

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Chaco Boreal, Paraguay

Ruta 9, Transchaco Highway

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Chaco Boreal, Paraguay

Ruta 9, Transchaco Highway

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Xiengkhouang Plateau, Laos

Bomb crater at Plain of Jars, Jar Site 1

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Xiengkhouang Plateau, Laos

Bomb crater at Plain of Jars, Jar Site 1

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Long Tieng, Laos

Secret US Air Force landing strip in Xaisomboun Province

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Long Tieng, Laos

Secret US Air Force landing strip in Xaisomboun Province

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Pek, Laos

One of countless live ‘bombies’ littering Laos

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Pek, Laos

One of countless live ‘bombies’ littering Laos

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