The new Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study inHerit. Heritage in Transformation, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu
It also welcomes applications from artists, film-makers and curators.
Funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research and beginning in 2024, inHerit. Heritage in Transformation describes itself as “a new Centre for Advanced Study that addresses historical, contemporary and possible future transformations in heritage. Working across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, it will develop innovative scholarly and creative approaches, shaping novel ways of thinking and doing heritage.”
How at different times and places are relations between past, present and future understood, performed and materialized? In what ways do global and local transformations reshape what is seen as valuable to keep for the future? How do cultural and natural heritage, and tangible and intangible culture, interrelate? What are the social, political and environmental potentials of changing understandings and forms of heritage?
The Center consists of a core team of researchers and service staff and is supported by an international advisory board. Each year, inHerit will host approximately ten international fellows. Its first phase of research runs until the end of 2027. Two further phases are anticipated.
Applications should address questions of heritage in transformation in relation to one or more of the Centre’s guiding themes: Decentring the West, Decentring the Human, and Transforming Value.
Successful projects are likely to be based in original empirical or archival study/analysis of source material (which may have already been undertaken) or creative work, and to probe historically and socio-culturally situated notions and practices of inheritance, heritage, value and temporality – and associated key concepts – through alternatives, such as those based in non-Western, indigenous, historically marginalized or imaginative perspectives.
Projects examining or creatively addressing transformations at the intersection between increasingly globally widespread practices, such as restitution, digitalization, genetic ancestry testing and legal changes, and those that address transregional experiences and practices are especially welcome.
Researchers and topics from areas currently underrepresented in heritage scholarship, including the global South and Eastern Europe, are especially encouraged to apply.
Fellowships can be awarded for a period of at least 6 to a maximum of 12 months.
Applicants should have completed a PhD and have significant publications, or, in the case of artists and practitioners, should have a substantial portfolio of accomplished work.
If you have any questions, please contact Irene Hilden: [email protected]