This Thursday, 26 February, Dr Sophia Labadi, Lecturer in Heritage Studies in the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies and Director of the Centre for Heritage, will be talking at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) at Durham University.
She will be discussing her latest book, UNESCO, Outstanding Universal Value and Beyond (AltaMira, 2012), which explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect World Heritage, and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, her work offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework.
The second part of Sophia’s talk will present her recent work, taking into account of some of the limits of the book and departures from it, and offers a reflection on migrants, museums and human rights.
The event will be held in the Pemberton Lecture Room at Durham is and free to attend. For more details, please see the IMEMS page here:
www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/?eventno=19274