Project Diary

We submitted the 240 page Report to the KNCU.

Rishika’s visit to Aarhus coincided with an intensive week of Pilot Project work. It was great to be able to work face-to-face on WP2 and WP3, with David and Rishika spending quality project time with the Aarhus-based student interns; Annie Gibson; Dekav Nilla and Julia Ciolek – with Jay Mateo (student intern) and Ali, making daily contributions through regular Zoom meetings.

David, Ali and Rishika presented our ‘mid-term’ findings and reflections to the Korean National Committee of UNESCO (KNCU), together with the wider Unveiling Shared Pasts team.

It was lovely to meet up with everyone involved in the research programme for the first time. It was fascinating to hear about the developing research that the other three research teams were working on and exchange ideas and experiences. In particular, it was great to be able to have such positive collaborative conversations about our emerging research and get some initial feedback.

David Harvey and Ali Mozaffari were presenting research papers at the ACHS Conference. This provided the opportunity to launch the Heritage and Transnationalism Network (HTN) of the ACHS.

With a mission closely allied to the exploration of Heritage-Border Complexes, the HTN Network seeks to expand our understanding of heritage (understood in both tangible and intangible forms) as it intersects with international relations, geography, geopolitics, public diplomacy, statecraft, diaspora studies, and borders, borderlands, and cross-roads studies.

Dr Rishika Mukhopadhyay hosted the first Research Workshop for the Pilot Project: Heritage Border Complexes and the Future of Eurasia. Meeting at the Department of Geography at the University of Southampton, Rishika, David and Ali met to review the project plans and set out an agenda and timetable for research.

Over the two days, we refined the objectives and processes for each of the Work Packages and set out a plan for how to proceed. The lead team met up with Adchaya Appathurai, the Student Intern based at Southampton, who was working with Rishika on WP3.