Workshop
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages
- Date
- Friday 16 May 2025
- Time
- Location
- Oude Sterrenwacht - Old Observatory
Sterrenwachtlaan 11
Leiden
We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop 'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages’, hosted with the support of the Leiden University Fund, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden Law School), and the Department of Heritage and Society (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University).
The impacts of climate change on cultural heritage have assumed growing prominence in recent years, after having long been neglected within climate change discourse. The emerging debate on climate change and cultural heritage is primarily focused on ascertaining that climate change-induced damage is likely to take place (or, in certain circumstances, has already taken place); or, alternatively, how cultural heritage can be used as a tool in support of adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, thus far there has been little consideration of what the aftermath of climate change-induced damages to cultural heritage will look like in practice.
This workshop explores the matter of providing reparations for climate change-induced damages to cultural heritage through a multi- and interdisciplinary lens, discussing examples from across the globe and relating to cultural heritage in all its multiplicity – encompassing both movable and immovable cultural heritage, as well as tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Please join us in advancing the debate on climate change and cultural heritage; scholars and practitioners from all fields are welcome. The workshop is free of charge and lunch will be provided for speakers and participants.
The programme for the workshop is available here.
To register for this conference, please complete this form.
Please note that spaces for the workshop are limited. If you later find that you are unable to attend, please inform us at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions, please contact the organisers at s.h.starrenburg@law.leidenuniv.nl and g.akturk.hauser@arch.leidenuniv.nl.