2011-2012

The Leiden Seminar for Global Interactions (LSGI) normally takes place on the first Friday of each month from 13:30 to 15:00 at Gravensteen, Pieterskerkhof 6, Room 11 (map). There is no need to register in advance. A working paper will be posted on the website one week prior to the seminar.  

Inscribing Practices: Material Worlds of Migration and Heritage

Beginning in the Fall of 2011, the Leiden Seminar on Global Interactions will institute a yearly seminar theme. The 2011-2012 theme will be:

Inscribing Practices: Material Worlds of Migration and Heritage.  

The global movements and histories of people leave numerous traces in the communities, landscapes, objects and practices they create, ranging from the mundane to the monumental. In this way, migration and heritage are inscribing practices – that is, material practices of making events, ideologies and processes visible, mobile and durable – as they imprint the world with histories of human movements and productions. For instance, architecture can articulate a history of contact or migration preserved in visual and structural form; museum collections can provide a distinctive material and visual accounts of colonial and post-colonial practices; and immigration forms and procedures can mediate a technology of governmental control as well as a significant transition in an individual’s personal biography. This seminar series will forefront the assemblages of actors, ideologies, and materials that constitute global interactions. The group will cultivate discussions around the materials out of which migration histories and heritage practices emerge, and the social worlds and relationships they make possible as well as constrain.

2011-2012 Schedule

Wednesday, September 14th - Kick-off lecture - Dr. Wayne Modest (Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam): Objects in Limbo - Towards a Museology of Displacement

Monday, October 10th - Dr. Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV) and Dr. Martijn Eickhoff (NIOD): Save Borobudur! The moral dynamics of heritage formation in Indonesia across orders and borders, 1930s-ca. 1990

Friday, December 2nd - Dr. Alex Geurds (Archaeology, Leiden University): Tracing the fixing agent: On Americanist archaeology’s contemporary engagement with boundary, process and practice

Friday, February 10th - Discussion with Arjen Oosterman, Vincent Schipper and Edwin Gardner:  The changing idea of heritage in architecture.

Friday, March 2nd - Dr. Paul Basu (Anthropology, University College London): Title TBA

Friday, April 13th - Dr. Renzo Duin (Archaeology, Leiden University): Title TBA

Friday, May 4th - Dr. Hester Dibbits (Museology, Reinwardt Academie): Title TBA

Friday, June 1st - Dr. Sabine Luning (FSW, Leiden University): Title TBA