Activities
Please find below a list of ECHOES-related activities, some of which we organise, co-organise or simply take part in.
When monuments fall
16 March 2021, Online
Cultural heritage is often expressed through monuments. All countries have their share of monuments erected to commemorate events or persons. In most cases, authorities decide whom and what to commemorate at a given time. Find out more…
Museums and Decolonial Narratives
15 February 2020, Lisbon (Portugal)
Echoes Colleagues Lorena Sancho Querol (CES – University of Coimbra) and Marcia Chuva (UNIRIO) will be hosting a module entitled “Museums and Decolonial Narratives: the experience of the ECHOES project in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon”. Find out more…
CFPH Annual Conference
16-17 December 2019, Belfast (United Kingdom)
The Centre for Public History Annual Conference seeks to understand how empire is remembered, forgotten and imaginatively reconstructed in the twenty first century. Find out more…
Cracking the Future of Heritage
20 November 2019, Brussels (Belgium)
ECHOES continues its collaboration with the European-funded ILUCIDARE project in their exploration of heritage diplomacy. Find out more…
Photography and Heritage Round Tables
18 November 2019, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The Postgraduate Program in History of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro promotes, on November 18, 2019, in Rio de Janeiro, the fifth edition of the Round Tables on Photography and Heritage. Find out more…
Decolonial Methodologies
01 November 2019, Aarhus (Denmark)
This seminar will discuss multiple epistemologies, entanglements and diverse embodied perspectives as challenging Euro/Western-centric models of knowledge, science, aesthetics and politics. Find out more…
Post/Colonial Cities
24-26 October 2019, Montreal (Canada)
After conferences in Montpellier, Poitiers and La Réunion (France, 2015, 2016 and 2018), as well as Kolkata (India, 2018) and Purchase (NY, USA, 2019), this is the 6th opus of this conference cycle in Montreal, Concordia University. Find out more…
Truth and Reconciliation in the Arctic
17-18 September 2019, Copenhagen (Denmark)
This 2-day conference, gathering experts and practitioners from five countries, will explore commonalities and differences between different Truth and Reconciliation Commissions…find out more…
12th SANORD Annual Conference (2019)
11-13 September 2019, Gaborone (Botswana)
This year’s edition of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana will see a number of international guests address the Role of Higher Education in Forging Sustainable Livelihoods. Find out more…
ICOM General Conference
01-07 September 2019, Kyoto (Japan)
This triennial gathering promises to inspire a range of discussions and exchanges on museum-related issues through sessions, excursions, workshops, and more. Find out more…
UPMS Workshop
07 July 2019, Coimbra (Portugal)
The ECHOES project WP4, together with the associations DJASS, INMUNE, IC, the MEMOIRS and COMBAT projects of the University of Coimbra, Center for Social Studies, organized a workshop of the UPMS. Find out more…
MSA Conference 2019
25-28 June 2019, Madrid (Spain)
The Memory Studies Association is a professional association for Memory Studies scholars, as well as those who are active in museums, memorial institutions, archives, the arts and other fields engaged in remembrance. Find out more…
Empire’s Metropolitan Afterlives
03-07 June 2019, London (United Kingdom)
Dr Michael Collins, UCL History, in association with UCL Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and the UCL Festival of Culture 2019 will host a two-day workshop. Find out more…
Cities, Heritages, and Colonial Pasts
14 March 2019, Florence (Italy)
This workshop concentrates on the discussion of historical and recent cases of representing colonial pasts in different cities across the globe. Find out more…
First Year
12 – 13 February 2019, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
The aim of the meeting is to present preliminary insights of the first year of the ECHOES project, to contribute to its overall cohesiveness and to engage creatively with the ECHOES vocabulary and de-colonial practices. Find out more…
Re-emergence of colonial heritage
19 – 20 December 2018, Marseille (France)
The key objective of the workshop is to gather artists, associations, heritage practitioners and researchers to discuss the handling and uses of heritage in the cities of Bristol, Cape Town and Marseille. Find out more…
Arrival Cities
30 November – 01 December 2018, Munich (Germany)
Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice and urban space, this international conference brings together researchers committed to revising the historiography of ‘modern’ art. Find out more…
Affective Methodologies
19 September – 21 November 2018, Aarhus (Denmark)
A series of research seminars organised throughout Autumn 2018 by the Body Politics Research Unit/Cultural Transformations Research Program, School of Communication and Culture of Aarhus University. Find out more…
Entangled Cities
06 – 07 November 2018, Lisbon – Coimbra (Portugal)
An international workshop organised by ECHOES Work Package 4 (WP4) – coordinated by the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIO – Brazil). Find out more…
City Museums and Multiple Colonial Pasts
14 – 15 September 2018, Warsaw (Poland)
An international workshop organised by the University of Warsaw to discuss and receive feedback on research to be carried out at three city museums. Find out more…
ACHS Conference 2018
01 – 06 September 2018, Hangzhou (China)
Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference 2018 is the largest ever international event in Asia dedicated to the topic of heritage. The ECHOES Team will be responsible for hosting two sessions during the event Find out more…
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 2018
12 – 15 August 2018, Shanghai (China)
Bringing scholars together in the biggest Chinese city to engage with the past, present and future of cultural studies scholarship. . Find out more…