Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre

Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, University of York || Funded by The Leverhulme Trust.

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Check our Insta @hgc_research_centre for our short video featuring the exhibition!

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New exhibition “The Liquid Landscape of Kathmandu” at the Patan Museum in Nepal on the Indigenous Newari’s traditional water management technologies, curated by Dr Hayley Saul and Anoj Khanal, with partners Padma Sundar Joshi and the Patan Museum! Exhibition goes until 30 March!

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Image Credit: Welcome to Ohio | bearclau on flickr | CC By 2.0

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Our first post at the start of this new academic year is by Ben Davenport, addressing how xenophobic food discourses legitimises discriminatory policies and migrant ‘Othering’. Read “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs” at https://t.co/dtKKGZed5g

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Banning 'gender ideology' in school isn't just a dog whistle call to ban trans children, but also a call to ban history itself from the classroom". Owen explores this, the forgetting of Section 28's history, and gender ahistoricism in our latest blog post https://t.co/6O1pDuNtp5

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Food-themed fun @YorkFestofIdeas Fringe Afternoon last Saturday! @Davenport_BK, PhD Candidate at the @H4GCResCentre, shared his research on the cultural significance of #FoodHeritage and #FoodMemories linked to food smells. Read our centre's latest blog post for more! #YorkIdeas

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Few tickets left for the launch of multi-media exhibition ‘Rain Awakens’ hosted by the HGCRC for @YorkFestofIdeas. The opening talk by Indigenous artist Rain Pierre will be followed by an afternoon tea. Do not miss this! https://t.co/r5qYTQyU2W. #YorkIdeas

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Glamour and artifice collide in our newest blog post "The Kweens Haus: Queer heritage and camp at Kings Manor" written by PhD Fran Mahon, where the Queer heritage of Kings Manor is explored via a digital zine
https://t.co/I339w6MwxJ

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Countdown for June 1! HGCRC will host the exhibition ‘Rain Awakens’ @YorkFestofIdeas by internationally renowned Indigenous artist Rain Pierre, an advocate for Indigenous peoples, LGBQ2S+ people and people in recovery. #YorkIdeas See our https://t.co/nKMFjOq0bi for more!

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The “Songs of the Water” listening workshop was organised on April 18 by our postdoc and artist Kaajal Modi, with audio support from Kitty Turner, to explore urban waterway heritages through embodied listening. Check out the project at https://t.co/vMS6WvKQVS #songsofthewater

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Inspiring screening session of #SIXINCHESOFSOIL hosted yesterday @CityscreenYork w/ panel discussion featuring Anna Jackson, one of the film’s stars; Claire McKenzie, the film’s producer; Dr Vincent Walsh @UrbanBiosPro; and panel moderator Dr. Tanja Hoffmann of the @HGCRC #soil

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Fermenting wild geographies: Kaajal Modi weeklong residency, workshop & dinner experimenting with reviving heritage fermented grains in collaboration with visitors to Rae-Yen Song’s ‘life-bestowing cadaverous sooooooooot’ at @CCA_Glasgow. Attend the dinner on Friday!

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As PhD researcher Owen Hurcum writes for #TransDayofVengeance: “Archaeology just has to ask itself if it wants to affect trans equality, or continue to reduce our community to existing only when we fit within its reductive and binary frameworks?” See https://t.co/dtKKGZed5g

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It's only 2 weeks until #SIXINCHESOFSOIL, our latest #GreenScreen lands at City Screen! Watch the inspiring story of young British farmers standing up against the industrial food system

Plus there will be a panel discussion moderated by Tanja Hoffmann of the @H4GCResCentre

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On #WorldWaterDay, the #HGCRC is working with local communities in #kathmandu_valley to explore the complexities associated with the revival of Traditional Water Systems, which may be a good alternative for current water stress in the valley #waterheritagekv #liquidlandscapektm

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The latest post by PhD candidate Niamh Malone pays tribute to victims of filicide and the narratives around the murder of any disabled person at the hands of their family or carers, urging for a rethink of the language used to discuss disabled murders https://t.co/ADR5WgvfxG

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See our latest Blog post by PhD Candidate Ben Davenport on "Culture, Place and Taste" and the spatial politics of food as ICH. As Ben asks "What does looking at the inscription of food heritage to the ICH Lists suggest as ways forward for the UK?" https://t.co/ADR5WgvfxG

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Check out our first Blog Post of 2024 on ‘Archaeologies at the Climate Crisis’, written by our PhD candidates who attended TAG 2023, which this year focused on the temporalities and ontologies of archaeology and the climate crisis
https://t.co/q2RBlPQIZz TAG44@UEANorwich

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CFP for an edited collection with @SDObjects from @LeicsMusStud on care and museum work.
We welcome contributions from across disciplines, and reflections from practice

To view our call for papers, visit:
https://t.co/NsOWY4rjsm

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Hydraulic infrastructure in #Kathmandu_Valley diverts water from foothills to reservoirs using open canals, dispensing it through stone spouts via networks of sub-surface conduits!#IWRM to knowledge for #Indigenous_adaptations. #LiquidLandscapeKTM #Water_Security #WaterHeritageKV