[KS] CFP: AAS 2019 Panel on future heritage: pre-preservation of cultural icons

[Elmer]

Dear colleagues,



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 *in the future*.

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; *when* 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 *future* cultural
heritage.



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.



Please contact Elmer Veldkamp at elmer.veldkamp at gmail.com in case you are
interested to work together, or have ideas to further develop this topic.


Best regards,

Elmer Veldkamp
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