November 28, 2022 at 5:30 pm on the Microsoft Teams platform will be held the next expert seminar with prof. Magdalena Banaszkiewicz from Jagiellonian University, Poland entitled "Post-totalitarian, post-nuclear, or post-colonial? Critical discourse on the legacy of Chornobyl".
New date: 5.12.2022
Abstract: The aim of the talk is to present the case of the legacy of Chornobyl from the perspective of critical heritage studies. The 50th anniversary of the adoption of the ‘Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage’ by UNESCO provides an excellent starting point to reflect on the timeliness of its message and contemporary trends in heritage studies and the practice of protecting, and developing heritage as a universal resource of humanity. The ongoing war in Ukraine has further intensified the discussion on the geopolitical dimension of nuclear heritage and the international community’s responsibility towards it. The talk will pose questions about both the future of sites such as the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and a broader reflection on the presence of post-totalitarian heritage in academic discourse and everyday practice.
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz is a cultural anthropologist, currently working as an Associate Professor in the Institute of Intercultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her fields of research include heritage and tourism studies. Her interests focus in particular on participation and interpretation of dissonant heritage as well as tourism development in the Central and Eastern Europe region. She has published three monographs (including Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Routledge 2022), dozens of articles for scientific journals such as Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Narrative Culture, Polish Sociological Review, Turystyka kulturowa, Turyzm and a number edited volumes (e.i. Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe. Bridging Worlds, co-edited with Sabina Owsianowska, Lexington Books, 2018). She is a chair of the MA program in Heritage Tourism and a member of the self-steering committee of Una Europa “Cultural Haritage”.
