Countdown for June 1! HGCRC will host the exhibition ‘Rain Awakens’ York Festival of Ideas by internationally renowned Indigenous artist Rain Pierre, an advocate for Indigenous peoples, LGBQ2S+ people and people in recovery. #YorkIdeas See our linktr.ee for more!

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 hgc.hosted.york.ac.uk/songs-of-the-w… #songsofthewater

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 Dr Vincent Walsh; and panel moderator Dr. Tanja Hoffmann of the @HGCRC #soil

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. Attend the dinner on Friday!

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 linktr.ee/H4GCResCentre

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 Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre

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

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 linktr.ee/H4GCResCentre

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?' linktr.ee/H4GCResCentre

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
hgc.hosted.york.ac.uk/archaeologies-… TAG44@UEANorwich

CFP for an edited collection with Sandra Dudley from School of Museum Studies on care and museum work.
We welcome contributions from across disciplines, and reflections from practice

To view our call for papers, visit:
drive.google.com/file/d/1jHHk_U…

ACHS

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

Upcoming event 1st Dec! Join centre postdoc Kaajal Modi and artist Louise Mackenzie for 'Grow your own Mother', an informal beginner-level session exploring practice-based research methods for the exchange and generation of knowledge. Register here tr.ee/idSzM1CW8S

Check out our new Blog Post 'Acceptance Wasn’t Built in a Day' by Owen J Hurcum, addressing the North Hertfordshire Museum changing the pronouns it uses on their display for the Roman Emperor, Elagabalus, to she/her. hgc.hosted.york.ac.uk/acceptance-was…

Happening today! Join Centre Director Emma Waterton and Deputy Director Hayley Saul for a talk introducing HGC at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.
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What kind of ancestors will we become? Kaajal Modi and Mariana P.L.Pereira's new blog post on the Climate Justice & Displacement retreat organised by Counterpoints Arts is out! hgc.hosted.york.ac.uk/what-kind-of-a… #ClimateJustice Photos by Carmel King

Updates from Anoj's work to document traditional water system components of Kathmandu Valley. The photo shows a water conduit carved on rock, a preserved vessel-like structure acting as a collection point and the water dispensing stone spout. #WaterHeritageKV #LiquidLandscapeKTM