Deep Time Heritage: Significance, Politics and Uses – Lecture and Discussion with Dr. Shumon T. Hussain and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter.

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This talk by Dr. Shumon T. Hussain introduces the field of “Deep Time Heritage” (DTH) as an often-overlooked branch of critical heritage studies. He will summarize the eponymous Elements title currently in press with the Critical Heritage Series of Cambridge University Press to illustrate that DTH requires dedicated scholarly attention. He argues that qua “keystone heritage”, which he defines and explores in the talk, DTH disproportionally shapes heritage discourses and broader imaginaries about past-future relations and humanity itself, and as such fundamentally configures the space of what is considered “politically possible”. Popular themes such as Neanderthal otherness, rewilding, genetic ancestry, survivalism, and Indigeneity represent under-analyzed yet potent arenas of such future-making and their uses in the present are revealing.

With Dr. Shumon T. Hussain and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter.

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