News & events

Conference: British Council: Heritage of Future Past

Join us from 29th – 31st March for a three-day online event which will highlight the value of cultural heritage and its contemporary relevance.

• Venue: Online Conference
• Dates: 29/03/21–31/03/21

Conference: Violated National Heritage: Theft, Trafficking and Restitution

The Society for the History of Collecting present: 'Violated National Heritage: Theft, Traffic & Restitution'

• Venue: Online Conference
• Date: 23/03/21
• Time: 4:30pm–9:30pm

Historic England: High Streets Heritage Action Zones’ Cultural Programme Launches with 'High Street Tales'

Historic England launches a podcast series and accompanying ebook called 'High Street Tales'. These are the first outcomes of a four-year-long national Cultural Programme led by Historic England, in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England.

New MSc aims to connect heritage to the future

Offered by the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, the MSc in Heritage Evidence, Foresight and Policy will equip graduates to think critically and strategically about the long-term future of what matters.

World Monuments Fund launches Virtual Series; 'Heritage from Home'

We’re delighted to announce the launch of Heritage from Home, a virtual tour series featuring some of World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) most iconic sites around the globe, guided by the world-class specialists that safeguard them for the future.

Conference Announcement: PastForward National Preservation Conference

Celebrate the power of place, at PastForward. Join thousands of preservationists and preservation lovers at the nation’s premier conference for those who work to save, sustain, and interpret historic places. PastForward 2021 is scheduled to take place November 2-5, 2021.

• Venue: Online
• Dates: 02/11/21–05/11/21

Online Talk: Against Disappearance | Talk 2

Join writer and historian Marina Warner, writer and activist Hammour Ziada and writer and publisher Abu Amirah as they explore the different legacies of cultural and commercial exchange and how some stories of migration, power and trade are told. Their discussion will be centred around the cultural context of African, Arab and European influences in Sudan and the Swahili coast.

• Venue: Zoom
• Date: 09/03/21
• Time: 2:00pm–3:00pm

Online Conference: Digital Approaches to Art History and Cultural Heritage, 4-5 March 2021

This conference, hosted by the University of Oxford and Durham University brings together researchers, students, and professionals from art history, museology, digital humanities, geography, history, archaeology, classics and computer science, who are interested in exploring digital approaches to the study of visual and material culture.

• Venue: Online
• Dates: 04/03/21–05/03/21

Virtual Launch of Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda - JPI CH

On 16th March at 9:30 GMT, the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage (JPI CH) will host the Virtual Launch of its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2020 (SRIA).

• Venue: Online
• Date: 16/03/21
• Time: 9:30am–4:30pm

Swiss funds help protect cultural archives in post-earthquake Albania

The Government of Switzerland ensured funding for the implementation of the project “Digitization of the archive of the National Institute for Cultural Heritage and the establishment of a protocol for emergency evacuation of the archive”, as a result of the PDNA.