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Heritage Unbounded

10 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings

Explore Global Heritage Issues: No Borders, Just Microphones
Join your host, Dr. Sarah Chicone, Director of Johns Hopkins University's Cultural Heritage Management graduate program, as she helps us keep our finger on the pulse of heritage in our changing world. Meet leading heritage professionals in the field and listen as they discuss the biggest challenges and accomplishments of heritage today.

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Honouliuli: A National Historic Site in the making

February 07, 2022 18:59 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

One of our nation’s newest National Historic Sites, the site of Honouliuli, will interpret the history of civilian incarceration and the experience of prisoners of war in Hawaii during World War II— an important and often glossed over part of America’s past. To use the words of the National Park Service, it “will be a place to reflect on wartime experiences and recommit ourselves to the pursuit of freedom and justice.” Join me as I chat with Hanako Wakatsuki, JHU Museum Studies Program alu...

Protecting our Heritage During Crisis

June 08, 2021 14:55 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MB

The 21st century has seen an unprecedented threat to our global heritage—from natural disasters, extreme weather events, and climate change to military conflicts in some of our most sensitive areas of global heritage alongside the intentional targeting of cultural sites for destruction. During this episode, join me as I chat with Corine Wegener, director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), an outreach program dedicated to protecting cultural heritage in crisis situations....

Cultural Burns: Understanding Indigenous Stewardship Practices and the Benefits of Intentional Fire

November 17, 2020 18:53 - 41 minutes - 57 MB

The 2020 fire season in the US has seen another historic year, with record breaking fires across the Western US. But fire is not new, it has been part of the Indigenous cultural landscape for millennia; not framed as something to be feared but rather as something to be embraced as an intentional part of stewardship. For this episode we unpack a bit about this relationship and what it can mean for land management moving forward.   This episode is co-hosted by first-year Cultural Heritage ...

Heritage Stewardship

March 13, 2020 17:14 - 43 minutes - 62.8 MB

A conversation with Wanda Raschkow and Elizabeth Hora reveals some of the possibilities along with some of the challenges for implementing a statewide site stewardship program. Wanda serves as the Statewide Site Stewardship Program Coordinator for Friends of Cedar Mesa, a conservation-focused non-profit located in Bluff, Utah. Friends of Cedar Mesa works to ensure that public lands in San Juan County, with all their cultural and natural values, are respected and protected.  As part of th...

Archaeogaming: the archaeology of and in gaming

January 09, 2020 14:22 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MB

We welcome Kaitlyn Kingsland, for a conversation about Archaeogaming. Kaitlyn is a doctoral student at the University of South Florida and a researcher at the Institute for Digital Exploration or iDEx. Her work focuses on 3D and digital applications to archaeology, history, and cultural heritage. She also studies archaeogaming and is the current manager and editor of Archaeogaming.com, a blog dedicated to the discussion of the archaeology both of and in video games. Be sure to visit Archae...

Born Digital: Rock Art at the British Museum

September 12, 2019 15:27 - 49 minutes - 70.6 MB

Join us for a conversation with anthropologist and digital humanities specialist, Elizabeth Galvin, as she shares with us her previous work at the British Museum as the project manager and leader of a major digital research project on African Rock Art. We discuss issues of technology, digital curation, and engagement and the ways digital outputs can aid in efforts to increase access to museums. Elizabeth has worked throughout Africa, but mainly in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Ethiopia...

San Marino: A Small Republic with a Big History

September 25, 2018 19:36 - 49 minutes - 48.6 MB

Fortress of Guaita, San Marino. By Max_Ryazanov, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia. Perched on Mount Titano and surrounded on all sides by the country of Italy, San Marino, is a small republic with a big history. The San Marino historic center and Mount Titano gained UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2008. As one of the oldest continuing republics in the world and the only surviving intact Italian city-state, its historic contributions to the development of democracy have been profound. Dr. Paolo R...

Potentials and Pitfalls: Bali and the Impact of its World Heritage Status

September 25, 2018 19:32 - 33 minutes - 41.1 MB

With its rice terraces and water temples, the subaks of Bali’s cultural landscape blend the natural, cultural, and spiritual through a cooperative social system of management. The 2012 designation of the Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy, as a World Heritage site, brought about the potential for additional preservation alongside increased tourism but continued challenges to site management remain. Dr. Stephen Lansing,...

Climate Change and Heritage: Planning for the Future

September 25, 2018 19:27 - 41 minutes - 34.9 MB

Climate change — extreme weather and rising sea levels — demands a forward-thinking approach to heritage preservation. Join us as we talk with Lisa Craig of The Craig Group, about current issues in preservation and adaptation planning. In her role as Chief of Historic Preservation for the City of Annapolis, Ms. Craig spearheaded the development of a Cultural Resource Hazard Mitigation Plan and Weather It Together, a community-based planning initiative and award-winning, model for resilienc...

Heritage and Conflict: Challenges in the Middle East

September 25, 2018 18:57 - 51 minutes - 40.8 MB

Conflict in the Middle East poses unique challenges to local heritage, join us as we talk with Brian Michael Lione, the Iraq Program Manager for the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute. Since 2009, Mr. Lione has been in Iraq with the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage, a unique institution in the Middle East which collaborates with Iraqi professionals to develop their skills in the conservation and management of their own cultural heritage. ...