War and Cultural Heritage

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Bronze Age Studies at Leiden University. She coordinates the University of Cambridge's postgraduate degree programme in archaeological heritage and museums, one of the first degree courses in this field. She has considerable research experience, including partnerships on projects such as the EU project Emergence of European Societies, the Leverhulme-funded project Changing Beliefs of the Human Body, the Hera-funded Investigation of Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe, and the Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict - EU FP7 (CRIC) project. Her publications include Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches (co-edited with John Carman, 2009). Dacia Viejo-Rose is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-14) based at the University of Cambridge. Her current research project is on cultural violence and violence against culture. She is the author of Reconstructing Spain: Cultural Heritage and Memory after Civil War (2011). Viejo-Rose was coordinator of the European Cultural Foundation's UK national committee, organising a series of seminars at Chatham House (2003-5). She also worked at UNESCO in the Department of Cultural Policies for Development (2000-2), where she managed the UNESCO Cities for Peace Prize. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict - EU FP7 (CRIC) project.

• Introduction: the impact of conflict on cultural heritage: a biographical lens Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Dacia Viejo-Rose; 1. Dybbøl: the construction and reconstruction of a memorial landscape Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Dacia Viejo-Rose; 2. 'The cemetery of France': reconstruction and memorialisation on the battlefield of Verdun Jean-Paul Amat, Paola Filippucci and Edwige Savouret; 3. Something old, something new: the materiality of tradition and power in the postwar reconstruction of Gernika's Foru Plaza Dacia Viejo-Rose; 4. The Dresden Frauenkirche as a contested symbol: the architecture of remembrance after war Karl-Siegbert Rehberg and Matthias Neutzner; 5. The prison of Carabanchel (Madrid, Spain): a life story Alfredo González-Ruibal and Carmen Ortiz; 6. 'A heritage of resistance': changing readings of Belgrade's Generalštab Ben Davenport; 7. Grand ruins: the case of the Ledra Palace Hotel and the rendering of 'conflict' as heritage in Cyprus Olga Demetriou; 8. Changing the meaning of Second World War monuments in post-Dayton Bosnia Herzegovina: a case study of the Kozara monument and memorial complex Dzenan Sahovic and Dino Zulumovic; 9. Imagining community in Bosnia: constructing and reconstructing the Slana Banja memorial complex in Tuzla Ioannis Armakolas; Postscript 1: the time of place David Uzzell; Postscript 2: when memory takes place Carsten Paludan-Müller.