{"id":2231,"date":"2014-02-24T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2014-02-24T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T16:24:21","slug":"sophia-labadi-to-talk-at-durham-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/02\/24\/sophia-labadi-to-talk-at-durham-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Labadi to talk at Durham University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, 26 February, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/labadi.html\">Dr Sophia Labadi<\/a>, Lecturer in Heritage Studies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a> and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/researchcentres\/centre-for-heritage\/index.html\">Centre for Heritage<\/a>, will be talking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/imems\/\">Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/a> (IMEMS) at Durham University.<\/p>\n<p>She will be discussing her latest book, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9780759122567\">UNESCO, Outstanding Universal Value and Beyond<\/a> <\/i>(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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of Sophia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/imems\/events\/?eventno=19274\">www.dur.ac.uk\/imems\/events\/?eventno=19274<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, 26 February, Dr Sophia Labadi, Lecturer in Heritage Studies in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies and Director of the Centre for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/02\/24\/sophia-labadi-to-talk-at-durham-university\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}