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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Elmer Veldkamp (Utrecht
University) is looking for participants to conduct a panel on preventive
(pre-emptive?) measures taken by local and national authorities that aim to
safeguard aspects of material and immaterial culture expected to become
cultural heritage <i>in the future</i>.<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">This panel would take the
critical debates revolving around assessment and implications of cultural
heritage as objects of the past in the present (e.g., fossilization of sites
and customs) as a starting point to look ahead. Concretely speaking, focus will
be on thinking about the arbitrary boundaries between what is old enough to be
called cultural heritage, and what is not (yet; <i>when</i> is heritage?), and what productive, protective and creative
processes are at work in the designation of contemporary (or recently historic)
items and customs deemed worthy of "heritage-to-be," i.e., policies
and practices in the safeguarding of <i>future</i>
cultural heritage.<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">The aim of the panel is to
explore appreciations of the "not-so-old" or the "future old" from a diverse
and holistic viewpoint and to investigate what the implications of such
future-oriented preservation are for the frameworks commonly used to think
about cultural heritage (and related fields, such as approaches to collecting
the contemporary in ethnographic museums). Contributions could come from a wide
range of perspectives including anthropology and ethnography, museum and
heritage studies, heritage governance, performance studies, and other
disciplines.<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Please contact Elmer Veldkamp
at <a href="mailto:elmer.veldkamp@gmail.com">elmer.veldkamp@gmail.com</a> in case you are interested to work together, or
have ideas to further develop this topic.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Best regards,<br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Elmer Veldkamp<br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span></span></font></span></p>





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