A digital research seminar bringing together historians and archaeologists from Ohio State University and Linnaeus University (Sweden), working on the future. All students and researchers near or far are welcome to attend!
David Staley is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Design at The Ohio State University (United States) and is the author of History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future. Cornelius Holtorf is an archaeologist and has been holding since 2017 a UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University; he is the co-editor (with Anders Högberg) of Cultural Heritage and the Future (Routledge, 2021).
Please register with unesco-heritage-futures@lnu.se and you will receive the zoom link a few hours before the meeting begins.
Programme
Times are EST for Ohio/US (and CET for Kalmar/Sweden)
8.30 (14.30) Welcome by Professor David Staley and Professor Cornelius Holtorf
8.40 (14.40) Lecture 1: History and the Future (David Staley)
9.00 (15.00) Lecture 2: Heritage and the Future (Cornelius Holtorf)
9.20 (15.20) Break
9.30 (15.30) Comment 1 (Professor Anders Högberg, Linnaeus University)
9.40 (15.40) Comment 2 (Professor Noah Sobe, Loyola University Chicago)
9.50 (15.50) Comment 3 (Dr Gustav Wollentz, Linnaeus University)
10.00 (16.00) Comment 4 (Professor Christopher Nichols, Ohio State University)
10.10 (16.10) Break
10.20 (16.20) General discussion with the audience (Chaired by David and Cornelius)
11.20 (17.20) Concluding comments (all speakers)
11.30 (17.30) End
