Cultural Heritage Protection post-COVID: Development Strategies

Hosted by the V&A’s Culture in Crisis Programme, these live-streamed workshops will be held every fortnight on Thursday at 4pm (BST/UK time) over a period of 10 weeks, from 25 June to 20 August 2020.

The focus of this session will be the wider value of cultural heritage and the potential to inform new approaches to international development and ‘Aid’. We are looking to explore the lessons learned from current Cultural Heritage Protection in conflict-affected settings, the wider role of Cultural Heritage in promoting stable and secure societies and the contribution that can be made to supporting communities to ‘build back better’.

The workshop on Thursday 6 August will be facilitated by:

• Asma Khalifa – activist, researcher, and co-founder of the Khalifa Ihler Institute
• Mariz Tadros – Professor of Politics and Development at the Institute of Development Studies and Director of the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID).
• Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh – Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director, UCL-Migration Research Unit, University College London, PI of the AHRC-ESRC funded Refugee Hosts project