When: Friday, 21 November 2025, 13:00-15:00h
Where: Radboud University Nijmegen, exact location TBA
Admission is free! If you’d like to attend, just send an email to [email protected]
Rethinking Heritage is an interdisciplinary research network particularly focused on junior and mid-career researchers. Rethinking Heritage critically engages with cultural heritage as a living and precarious process shaped by uncertainty, contestation, and transformation. The network understands heritage not as a fixed legacy but as an active and contested practice deeply entangled with contemporary social, political, and environmental challenges. By combining approaches from for example material culture, landscape history, and archaeology, the network aims to rethink heritage’s role amid rapid global change and to highlight innovative, collaborative research that responds to the complexities of our precarious times.
The meeting on Friday, 21 November 2025, 13-15h is an informal networking platform for early-career researchers—PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows in cultural heritage. Participants will exchange ideas, explore collaborative opportunities, and brainstorm ways to engage national research schools in advancing heritage-related activities.
Coordinators: Christian Ernsten (Maastricht University), Hester Dibbits (Reinwardt Academy) and Gertjan Plets (Utrecht University)