Program
DownloadThe participants explore discourses, practices, ethics, and politics of care in contexts of collecting, preserving, restoring, curating, interpreting, and managing or organizing, by asking:
- Who cares for objects, materials, data, and their histories – also in view of the social mission and responsibility of heritage institutions? How are decisions made about what is preserved, restored, or allowed to decay?
- How do we deal with fragile, ageing, damaged, repressed, or illegible materials—documents, artworks, artifacts with digital methods?
- How do we ensure the preservation of digitized records and how do develop sustainable practice for managing born-digital texts and artifacts?
- What does “curating” or “restoring” mean from a perspective of care and advocacy for long overlooked agents, materials, or practices?
- How can we make mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion visible—also in restoration practices, conservation priorities, strategies, and heritage politics?
- How do organizations collect, maintain, repair, and sometimes erase knowledge, memories, and data and how can such collective memories and repositories be restored and investigated?
- How do climate change, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity transform conservation and restoration practices, and which strategies already exist? (e.g., climate proofing collections, dealing with mold, humidity, pests, extreme weather events)
- How do care concepts and practices differ across cultural heritage institutions, companies, communities, or activist groups?
- How can the societal actors be actively involved in care practices, especially through participatory approaches and/or Citizen Science?
The contributions approach/address these questions through cultural, organizational, conservation-oriented, or interdisciplinary lenses—ranging from theoretical reflections and empirical studies to case examples, artistic interventions, or practice-led research.
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DAY 1 |
Wednesday, 1st July 2026 (U.0.22) |
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10.30-11.00 |
Welcome address, introduction, organizational announcements Eva Maria Stöckler, Head of Department for Arts & Cultural Studies |
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11.00-11.45 |
Keynote 1 Antje Schmidt: New Horizons of Care? – Navigating towards new forms of collecting and connecting in the German Maritime Museum |
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11.45-12.45 |
Short Paper Session 1 (Host: Helmut Neundlinger) Jakob Holzer: The formation of Resistance – Curating unknown remembrance Tom Waibel/Elisabeth Streit: How, Who and Whom? Curating Curator(s). Taking Care of Marginalia in the Amos Vogel Library Elisabeth Seyerl-Langkamp: The Umoⁿhoⁿ and the Francis La Flesche Collection in Berlin. A long-term collaboration and two exhibitions at the Humboldt Forum |
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12.45-13.45 |
Lunch Break |
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Long Paper Session 1 (Host: Klaus Neundlinger) 2 Papers à 30 min incl. discussion Elisabetta Cicigoi: Who cares? From Symbolic Participation to Legal Responsibility: Heritage Communities and the Faro Convention Tijana Zakula: Holy Mess: rethinking sustainability of religious heritage |
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14.45-15.15 |
Coffee Break |
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15.15-16.30 |
Workshop Round 1: 2 parallel workshops Michaela Moser/Marcel Sagesser: Caring Epistemologies: A Socio-Sonic Fabrication Workshop for Collaborative Archive Creation Cristina Moraru: Who Cares for the Forgotten? A Participatory Ritual of Attention |
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16.30-16.45 |
Short Break (to change rooms) |
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16.45-17.45 |
Short Paper Session 2 (Host: Anja Grebe) 4 Papers à 15 min incl. discussion Konstantina Maria Serjannis: Dis/placement in the Collection: Rapid Response, Caring Activism, Rhizomatic Collecting Practices Yulia S. Tikhomirova: Who Cares for Contested Heritage? Agonistic Care and Digital Heritage Governance Narciss Sohrabi: Caring for the Margins: Minority Heritage and the Politics of Preservation Tuğçe Eylül Başkaya: Caring for the afterlives of violence: Digital memorialisation and witnessing in the Madımak Archive |
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17.45-18.00 |
Wrap Up Day 1 |
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19.00-21.30 |
Wine & Bread (at the venue) |
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DAY 2 |
Thursday, 2nd July 2026 |
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09.00-09.15 |
Welcome, organizational announcements |
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09.15-10.00 |
Keynote 2 (Host: Anja Grebe) Julia Frieberger: Documentation and Ephemerality: A Conflict of Care. Theoretical Reflections on the Status of the Artwork |
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10.00-10.45 |
Short Paper Session 3 (Host: Anja Grebe) 3 Papers à 15 min incl. discussion Rida Arif Siddiqui, Lilian Häge: Who Cares About Whose Memory? Findings from a Transnational Needs Assessment on Inclusive Remembrance Culture in Europe Rowan Ashraf Aly: Listening to the Last Echoes: Memory, Decay, and Middle Class Housing in Nasr City, Cairo Eva Schmolmüller: Aging as a Taboo: The Exhibition as a Platform for Addressing Challenges |
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10.45-11.15 |
Coffee Break |
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11.15-12.45 |
Long Paper Session 2 (Host: Chiara Zuanni) 3 Papers à 30 min incl. discussion Andra Silapētere: Safety Zones and Shifting Timelines Robert Simpson: Second burial and Transitional Custody: A theoretical framework for disposal practices of spontaneous memorials collections Freda Fiala: Reworking the Legacy of Andreas Reischek |
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12.45-13.45 |
Lunch Break |
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13.45-14.30 |
Short Paper Session 4 (Host: Helmut Neundlinger) 3 Papers à 15 min incl. discussion Renia Korma: Mapping Bellini’s Operatic World: A GIS-Based Digital Cultural Heritage Project Bridging Scholarship and Public Engagement Eliara Beck Souza: Devalued: A study of the declined designations to Brazilian National Built Heritage Amy Nygaard, Ph.D./ Gretchen Wagener Burau: Collaborative Care: Creating a Multivocal, Transnational, and Reciprocal Research Archive |
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14.30-15.00 |
Coffee Break |
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15.00-16.15 |
Workshop Round 2: 2 parallel workshops Jennifer McHugh: Animating stories and future narratives: The archive as interactive space Cosmin Minea: Who Owns Heritage? Negotiating the Ownership of Historical Monuments Between Experts and Communities |
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16.15-16.30 |
Short Break (to change rooms) |
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16.30-18.00 |
Poster Session (Hosts: Anja Grebe, Chiara Zuanni) Posters à 3 min Poster Slam (incl. Moderation) + Poster Exhibition Jelena Sofronijevic: Restoring Petar Hadži Boškov's Place in London, Bradford, and Skopje Linn Borodkina: From the Street to the Shelf: How do we care for a (queer) feminist protest banner? Beatrice Senatore: Restoring or leaving untouched? Home movies as an expression of amateur filmmaking Anna Puhr: Bridging the Digital Heritage Gap: The European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) Francesco Aresti: Heritage interpretation at the UNESCO-listed Tower of Hercules (Galicia, Spain): a case study of cultural organisations and local communities |
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19.00-21.30 |
Dinner Salzstadl |
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DAY 3 |
Friday, July 3rd 2026 |
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09.00-09.15 |
Welcome, organizational announcements |
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09.15-10.00 |
Keynote 3 (Host: Chiara Zuanni) Jamie Armstrong: Beyond Information: Cultivating Human Connection and Creativity in Archives |
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10.00-10.45 |
Short Paper Session 5 (Host: Chiara Zuanni) 3 Papers à 15 min incl. discussion Felix Köstelbauer: Found, lost and found again – On rediscovering the contexts of fragmented and forgotten archaeological collections Alíz Horváth: Inclusive curation as pedagogical method: Experimental digital scholarly editing on Transkribus |
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10.45-11.15 |
Coffee Break |
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11.15-12.15 |
Online Paper Session (Hosts: Simone Rack, Klaus Neundlinger 2 Papers à 20-30 min incl. discussion Nicola Urbino: Caring for collective memory: territorial narratives and the preservation of cultural heritage through the BORGHI model NN: Curating Under Threat: How a Digital Archive Turns Collection Policy into an Ethics of Care |
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12.15-13.15 |
Lunch Break |
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13.15-14.30 |
Workshop Round 3: 2 parallel workshops Marie Niederleithinger: The sensory history of disembodied work: documenting bodily relating to technological environments in health care and research Simone Rack/Klaus Neundlinger: Who Cares How? Practices, Decisions, and Learning Across Heritage Work |
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14.30-15.00 |
Wrap-up Day 3 & Summer School |
Organizers
