Elizabeth Chilton, professor of anthropology and Dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, USA, appreciates the connections between archaeology, heritage and the future. Read her new blog on the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology News here.

I samband med Mörbylånga kommuns Världsarvsveckan och projektet Experimentellt kulturarv ordnade CH den 16 July 2018 ett framtidsspel för alla åldersgrupper 10+. På Ölands folkhögskolan i Skogsby blev det två grupper som spelade några omgångar och reflekterade kring världsarvet och framtiden…

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.

3 frågor till Cornelius Holtorf

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.