Shifting Cities: Urban Heritage in the 21st Century, November 12-14, 2015, Rutgers University
November 12-14, 2015 |
Hosted by Rutgers’ Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS), this international conference will examine the phenomenon of shifting populations and connections to urban heritage. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to address the complex and interconnected challenges facing cities and their populations, the overarching goal is to identify new approaches towards working effectively with diverse and dynamic populations as part of current efforts to rethink the meaning and practice of heritage conservation within the “shifting cities” that define urbanism in the 21st century.
FEATURED EVENTS
Thursday, November 12 at 7:30 pm
– Keynote Address by Ishmael Beah, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and bestselling
author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and Radiance of Tomorrow. The address will be followed by a reception and musical performance by the Cimarrones, an Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena Ensemble.
Location: Rutgers Student Center,
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Friday, November 13 at 6:00 pm –
Screening of Revolutionary Medicine, a documentary film about First Popular Garifuna Hospital of Honduras, a community-owned and operated hospital. A Q&A session with Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, the founder of the hospital, will follow the screening.
Location: Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center, 10 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Friday, November 13 at 2:00 pm –
Roundtable discussion, Heritage in Armed Conflict: Syria & Iraq
Location: Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center, 10 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Conference panel sessions include:
-Urban Development: Managing Competing Claims*
-Environment in the City*
-Urban Memories and Competing Histories*
-Urban Cultural Identities*
-Social Services: Education, Employment, and Public Health
-Technology and New Media
-Roundtable discussion on Camden, New Jersey*
*AIA Learning Units available through Preservation New Jersey, a proud partner of CHAPS and supporter of SHIFTING CITIES: Urban Heritage in the 21st Century.
The conference also includes an international poster competition, St. Croix Memorial Design Exhibition, student exhibits from the CHAPS Shifting Cities: Cultural Heritage and Community Organizing Workshop, and additional musical performances.
All conference events are free and open to the public. SPACE IS LIMITED and PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
To register, please visit: http://chaps.rutgers.edu/register.html
SHIFTING CITIES: Urban Heritage in the 21st Century is sponsored by Rutgers University, UNESCO, US/ICOMOS, the World Monuments Fund, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University.
Website: http://chaps.rutgers.edu/shifting-cities.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RutgersCHAPS
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Website:
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Rutgers University |
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New Brunswick, NJ |
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catherine.erkkila@gmail.com |
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