Séminaire de recherche organisé par: Nabila Oulebsir (Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM / CRIA-EHESS, Paris) ; Dominique Poulot (Université Paris I / IUF); Astrid Swenson (Brunel University, London); Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval, Québec).
Paris, 17 février 2012, 14h-16h.
Lieu: Salle Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, 14h-16h, INHA, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 – Paris.
• Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper (Prof. Dr. Technische Universität, Institut für Stadt und Regionalplanung (ISR), Fachgebiet Denkmalpflege, Berlin).
Confrontations patrimoniales. Quelques réflexions autour du statut légal, local et sémantique des patrimoines.
Cet exposé s’articulera autour de trois thèmes principaux :
1. Patrimoine et conflit strcturel (Heritage and Conflict)
2. Patrimoine en conflits militaires (Heritage in Conflict)
3. Patrimoine de conflits (Heritage of Conflict).
Notice bio-bibliographique
Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper est titulaire de la Chaire d’études de conservation à l’Institut de planification urbaine et régionale de l’Université technique de Berlin (depuis 2005). De formation en histoire de l’art, acquise dans les universités de Marburg et de Poitiers, elle a été conservatrice à l’Office de protection des bâtiments historiques de Berlin (1998-2002), et membre du groupe international d’experts de l’UNESCO pour la reconstruction du pont de Mostar (2004-2005). Ses principaux sujets de recherche et de publication sont l’architecture et le patrimoine du xxe siècle, la théorie de la conservation et les sites contestés de patrimoine. On compte parmi ses publications : « Patrimoine culturel et conflit. Le regard de l’Europe », in Museum International, n°245/246 (2010), « Patrimoine commun – Futurs partagés », p. 14–20) ; Denkmalpflege statt Attrappenkult: Gegen die Rekonstruktion von Baudenkmälern – eine Anthologie (avec Adrian von Buttlar, Michael S. Falser et al., Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010. (Bauwelt-Fundamente, 146). http://www.dolff-bonekaemper.de/
• Astrid Swenson (Lecturer, Brunel University, London).
Heritage and Endangerment: from the Dodo to the French’s Gourmet Meal.
The talk examines how the increasing emphasis of endangerment in current heritage discourses emerged since the 18th century. Ideas about endangerment offer a good lense through which the entangled histories of France, Germany and Britain can be contrasted. I am particularly interested in the importance of national contexts versus transnational and international factors. Arguable, the key moments in the emergence and institutionalisation of the notion of heritage stemmed from particular dangers to objects, and collective identities, leading to the idea that the state, civil society and the international community should provide preservation through inventories, museums and archives. Such key moments include vandalism during the French Revolution (leading to the first theoretical texts, inventories and the historic museum), art looting during the Napoleonic wars (leading to international protest), urbanisation and industrialisation during the nineteenth century (leading to private preservation association and widespread national legislation), total war in the twentieth century (leading to the creation of international conventions), modernisation, colonialism and globalisation (leading to the convention on intangible heritage). While much as been written on how particular threats triggered key moments in history of preservation, much less is known on how dangers were perceived and conceptualised by contemporaries. The talk will highlight why certain dangers were persistently invoked while others disappeared from public discourse and show how over the course of the last two centuries, the discourse shifted from the sources of endangerment to the condition of endangerment. This might throw interesting light on a rather nonlinear development of the champ patrimonial: discourses of endangerment in areas as diverse as architecture, landscape, folklore, languages, animal species and humans converged in the late nineteenth century, before becoming treated more separately during the twentieth century and then increasingly linked again in the last couple of decades through the fostering of a new language of heritage. While ideas of danger certainly shaped the modern notion of heritage, it is worth also noting tensions rather than the alliances between ‘heritage’ and ‘endangerment’. I will analyse why in certain heritage campaigns the language of endangerment is not prevalent (and ask whether this is linked to particular local and national experiences) but why other concepts are privileged and examine the tension between endangerment and other concepts in the definition of what constitutes heritage, such as in the UNESCO convention on intangible heritage that requires a heritage to be both living and endangered at the same.
Biography
Astrid Swenson is Lecturer in European History at Brunel University London, and since November 2010, co-leads the seminar Frontières du patrimoine. After studying History, Art History and Modern Literature at the university of Mainz and Dijon, she graduated from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) with a Ph.D on “Conceptualising Heritage History in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth Century France, Germany and England”. Her work focuses on the role of cultural exchange in the creation of the concept of heritage since the nineteenth century. Her book entitled The Rise of Heritage. Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She is also editing currently (with Peter Mandler) the Proceedings of the colloquium “From Plunder to Preservation. Britain and the Heritage of Empire, 1800-1950” (Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the British Academy). Astrid Swenson was a researcher at Cambridge Victorian Studies Group and Darwin College, Cambridge. She currently leads the Brunel Heritage Network in London, and is a member of a working group on “Endangerment” at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Nabila Oulebsir (10 février 2012). Patrimoine et Conflit / Heritage and Conflict. Frontières du patrimoine : circulation des savoirs, des objets et œuvres d'art. Consulté le 22 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/sr70