Cornelius Holtorf chaired a public panel discussion in Karlskrona entitled “Adressing hope in heritage planning”. The members of the panel included

• Anette Johansson, Planner at the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, Karlskrona.
• Mats Djurberg, Secretary General at the Swedish UNESCO Commission, Stockholm.
• Tuna Tasan Kok, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Amsterdam.
• Kristina Nilsson, Professor of Spatial Planning, Luleå Technical University.
• Magnus Larsson, Deputy Mayor, Karlskrona Municipality.
• Ola Swärdh, Head of Planning and the Built Environment, Karlskrona Municipality.

The event was related to the celebrations of 20 Years World Heritage designation of the Naval City of Karlskrona (5 July 2018)

Cornelius Holtorf ran a half-day Future Workshop for the Steering Group of Kalmar Castle (12 April 2018)

Cornelius Holtorf ran a half-day Future Workshop for the Heritage Team of Kalmar Country Council (13 April 2018)

Ett samtal om konst, arkeologi och kärnkraft mellan Malin Pettersson Öberg och Cornelius Holtorf, Vallentuna kulturhus i samband med utställningen Precarious Spaces Radiant Days (22 April 2018).

Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg and Claudio Piscatore take part in a planning meeting for a cross-sectoral workshop on Societal Memory, National Swedish Archive, Stockholm (26 April 2018)

Claudio Pescatore holds a lecture at Linnaeus University, Campus Växjö, entitled “When the rocket is up – retrievability and memory of radioactive waste internationally” (27 April 2018).

Cornelius Holtorf held an Inaugural Lecture as UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures entitled “Varför behöver UNESCO en framtidsarkeolog?” Linnaeus University, Kalmar (15 May 2018)

Cornelius Holtorf held a keynote lecture entitled “Die Rolle der Archäologie in der Gesellschaft: Überzeugungsarbeit in der Gegenwart oder Planen unserer Zukunft?” at the Annual Meeting of the Netzwerk Archäologie Schweiz dedicated to the theme “Was hat Archäologie mit mir zu tun?”, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (21 June 2018)

Tidskriften Byggnadskultur 2.18, utgiven av Svenska byggnadsvårdsföreningen, publicerade en intervju med Cornelius Holtorf.

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När Barsebäck rivs – vad händer då med historien och berättelsen om det svenska industriarvet? Och hur ska vi varna framtidens befolkning för det farliga kärnavfallet? Cornelius Holtorf m.fl. intervjuades av Morris Wikström för P1 Kultur.

Sarah May is thinking about heritage and its long relationship with volcanoes. Do common notions of risk force us to be ‘waiting for the big one‘ when it comes to the future or are there other ways of thinking change?

Anders Högberg and Cornelius Holtorf presented on “Nuclear Waste as Cultural Heritage” and chaired two roundtables at the Nuclear Culture Roundtable on Memory and Future, held on 4 May 2018 at Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden. Even Sarah May participated actively as a rapporteur.

The Roundtable on Memory and Future was hosted by Malmo Konstmuseum in partnership with Linnaeus University and chaired by Curator Ele Carpenter. More information about the exhibition Perpetual Uncertainty – art and radioactivity which provided the context of this event can be found here.

Every year on 18 April, ICOMOS celebrates the International Day for Monuments and Sites. The 2018 theme is ”Heritage for Generations”. But Sarah May and I are asking: how does the cultural heritage sector know which monuments and sites we preserve will benefit our grandchildren and which could harm them? Can loss of heritage provide benefits too?

CH presents a lecture on “What does UNESCO World Heritage tell future generations?” to our students at Linnaeus University in the course “Cultural Heritage and Communication” (23 Jan 2018)

CH runs a half-day workshop on heritage futures for the “Unique historical Kalmar and Öland” regional development project group, Linnaeus University, Kalmar (1 Feb 2018)

CH presents a paper on “What’s the Plot? Preservation, Patina and Pastness”, Clean Enough? Workshop, University of Gothenburg (6 Feb 2018)

CH discussed the work of the Chair with Mats Djurberg, General Secretary of the Swedish UNESCO commission. He also attends a meeting for members in ICOMOS International Committees followed by a seminar on cultural tourism, organised by ICOMOS Sweden in Stockholm (14 Feb 2018)

CH holds a seminar on “Beyond Romantic Nationalism – A New Paradigm for Heritage?” at the Center for Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, USA (23 Feb 2018)

CH presents a public lecture on “Vad gör jag som UNESCO professor?” for students on Linnaeus University’s Campus Kalmar (28 Feb 18)

CH lectures on “Heritage Futures and the Future of Heritage in Europe” as the second in a series of lectures organized by the Flemish support center for cultural heritage FARO and the Flemish heritage network Herita under the theme of TEIM: Thank Europe it’s Monday and linked to the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Palace on the Meir, Antwerp, Belgium (5 March 2018).

“Vårt kulturarv – där historien möter framtiden”. Så lyder mottot för EU-kommissionens Europaår för kulturarv 2018. Men faktum är att kulturarvsexperter sällan funderar över framtiden…. (interview med Cornelius Holtorf på P1 Kulturnytt, 2’45 min lång) Mer här: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=6905360