Research-Teaching-Society Nexus
Amsterdam | June 20 – 21, 2024
Celebrating AHM’s 10th Anniversary
This year’s AHM annual conference will showcase the interdisciplinary and transnational research conducted across several fields within the school. The conference also aims to create a dialogue between AHM’s research and external and social partners in order to explore and discuss questions and problems that are relevant in the fields of heritage, memory, and material
culture today within and beyond the university. Themes of the conference include, but are not limited to AHM’s Research Themes:
Museums and Memorials
Examines how art, cultural objects and artefacts as well as their stakeholders engage with and give shape to cultural heritage and memory.
Heritage and Conflict
Explores the heritage of conflicts and the memory boom in the present, as well as the activation of heritage and memory as means of conflict resolution
Transnational Memory Narratives
Investigates the dynamics of memory and the politics of narrative, broadly conceived, in relation to identity formation and material culture agencies.
Digitality and E-Memories
Examines digital technologies and they ways in which they influence the production, transmission of and engagement with cultural heritage and memory.
Materiality and Material Culture
Focuses on the documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of materials and material culture varying from archeological sites, (art) object to landscapes.
About AHM
Located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) is a research institute and doctoral school committed to the analysis of the remnants and narratives of the past in the present, as well as of the remaking of pasts into heritage, memory and material culture.
AHM seeks to integrate all branches of research focusing on the material and intangible remains of the past, the reciprocal relations between objects and meanings, and the dynamics of memory, from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, concept-oriented, object-oriented and user-oriented approaches. The integrative, interdisciplinary and critical approach of problematising, conceptualising and analysing heritage and memory acts, and material culture practices, policies and politics on all levels in Europe and beyond is unique to AHM.
For more information, see the website.
Program
The program reflects the aim of the conference to showcase the research conducted within the school and highlight collaboration with social and institutional partners.
View the full program below.