RSA Heritage Network and Suffolk

RSA Launch © University of Suffolk

Heritage Futures hosted the RSA Heritage Network event for Suffolk this evening. Around 50 guests from across the region listened to presentations on the heritage index (David Gill), museums in Suffolk (Jenna Ingamells) and the Hold (Amy Rushton). There was an extended time of discussion to consider the three RSA themes relating to:

• the challenges facing heritage in our region / country
• the solutions
• the develop of networks to support heritage

Further details about the event can be found in the press release.

RSA Heritage Network: Suffolk’s Diverse Heritage

Heritage Futures will be discussing the RSA Heritage Network questions in the context of ‘Suffolk Diverse Heritage‘. Heritage in Suffolk is supported by two key bodies: the Suffolk Strategic Heritage Forum, and the Ipswich Heritage Forum. We will be considering the challenges facing heritage in Suffolk, and what we can do to support, conserve, develop and interpret heritage more widely across the county.

There will be two short presentations: one on The Hold, the new heritage centre for Suffolk (funded by HLF), and the other on museums in Suffolk.

All are welcome.

Heritage Futures Seminar: Fragmented History

The seminar will look at how some major museums have acquired Athenian figure-decorated pots fragment by fragment. How were the fragments dispersed? When was the pot fragmented? The research will look for patterns in the acquisitions, such as sequences of gifts and sales. The situation is made more complicated as some of the pots have been returned to Italy as part of a wider investigation into the illicit trade in antiquities. How can museums adopt a more rigorous due diligence process prior to acquisition?

Heritage Futures Seminar: The Abbey of St Edmund

The Abbey of St Edmund Heritage Partnership is seeking to record and interpret the remains of the Benedictine abbey in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Richard Summers will be talking about the work of the partnership on Wednesday 21 February 2018 at 4.30 pm in the Waterfront Building of the University of Suffolk. The event forms part of the Heritage Futures research seminar series.

Places can be reserved via Eventbrite. All are welcome and there is no charge.

Further details about the project can be found here.

For the abbey:

• The Abbey Church
• View from the Cathedral
• Crypt
• Lady Chapel
• Chapel of St Nicholas
• St Martin’s Chapel
• Chapter House
• The Charnel House
• Reredorter
• Lecture Court
• Trayle
• Norman Tower
• Abbot’s Bridge
• Precinct Wall
• Ministry Signs
• Guidebook

Spring 2014 Heritage Unit seminar series

We’re pleased to announce the details of the Spring term heritage unit seminar series at UCS.  All are welcome to attend – staff, students and visitors.

To confirm attendance, please email Julie Barber julie.barber@ucs.ac.uk

14th Jan 4.30pm	Greg Luton English Heritage	New Model for English Heritage: a consultation discussion
22nd Jan 4.30pm	Kate Clark New South Wales Government, Australia	What matters and why – fun with heritage!
5th Feb Time to be confirmed	Erling Storm President of Norwegian national rowing team	Heyerdahl & Maritime Connections The Heyerdahl Institute Lecture and Touring Exhibition Reception
19th Feb 4.30pm	Nigel Walter Archangel Architects	From values to narrative: a new foundation for the conservation of historic buildings
27th Feb 4.30pm	Lorna Richardson University College London	Public Archaeology and the internet – the impact of social networking technologies on communicating heritage
5th March 4.30pm	Professor Jules Pretty University of Essex	This Luminous Coast
26th March 4.30pm	Dr Simon Gilmour Society of Antiquaries of Scotland	Title to be confirmed
16th April 4.30pm	Dr Sara Perry University of York	Cultural heritage in pictures: The state of play in current visualisation practice
30th April 4.30pm	Carole Souter Heritage Lottery Fund	The future of heritage: what are we leaving for coming generations?
21st May 4.30pm	Dr Sean O’Reilly Institute of Historic Building Conservation	Conservation infrastructure in the UK – why, what, how… and when?
28th May 4.30pm	Liz Hide University of Cambridge	University Museums: who cares? What can a 21st century University Museum contribute to society?

UCS Heritage Research Seminars Autumn Term 2013

The heritage unit at UCS is delighted to announce the line up for our seminar series this term.  All are welcome to attend, by registering with Julie Barber Email: julie.barber@ucs.ac.uk Tel: 01473 338181

It looks to be a great line up, and we’ll be tweeting and blogging as ever!  #UCSheritage

9th Oct 4.30pm	Dr Geraint Coles, UCS	Heritage-led regeneration
23rd Oct 4.30pm	Dr Sue Oosthuizen University of Cambridge	‘Tradition and transformation: explaining cultural change through the case study of the Anglo-Saxon landscape
6th Nov 4.30pm	Dr Ben Cowell National Trust	Sir Robert Hunter, the National Trust, and the invention of ‘heritage’
20th Nov 4.30pm	Bob Kindred Bob Kindred Heritage Consultants	Basically we’re stuffed -the heritage sector in decline?
2nd Dec 4.30pm	Professor John Lennon Glasgow Caledonian University	Dark tourism : origins and exploration of recent work
18th Dec 4.30pm	Dr Fidel Meraz UCS	Utopia, museums and the issue of identity: the Mexican case