University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics

Date: Friday, 27 April 2012, 9:30am – 5:30pm

Venue: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford

This colloquium will provide an interdisciplinary forum for reflection on cultural memory and heritage in the 21st century. It will bring together scholars from the fields of history, cultural policy, law, museology, library studies, world heritage studies and information technology, to address a broad spectrum of aspects regarding the future of cultural memory: Who decides today what future generations will remember? What role do libraries and "universal museums" play in moulding memory cultures? Does the digitization of memory enhance historical knowledge? How global and virtual can cultural memory be? Is it possible to create a “Memory of the World”? How does the internationalization of cultural heritage relate to assertions of national identity and the national ownership of heritage?

Speakers include: Alan Bowman (Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford), Andrew Burnett (British Museum, London), Marie Cornu (Centre d’Etudes sur la Coopération Juridique Internationale/CNRS, Paris), Michael Heaney (Bodleian Libraries, Oxford), Annika Kuhn (Department of Ancient History, University of Munich), David Pearson (Department of Culture, Heritage and Libraries, City of London), Andreas Scholl (Collection of Classical Antiquities, State Museums Berlin), Susan Walker (Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

For further information and the full programme please visit the conference website:

http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/futureofthepast.htm