Cross-Field Dialogues
Cultural Heritage and Civilisation
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On July 19th of 2025, the Cross-Field Dialogues: Cultural Heritage and Civilisation conference was held in Aarhus, Denmark, at Moesgaard Campus.
The conference was co-organised by David C. Harvey, Jeremy C. A. Smith, and Ali Mozaffari.
The speakers were all professionals in the wider heritage field, with specific expertises in contested heritage, border-making and geopolitics in Eurasia.
Presentations given at the conference reflect the results or ongoing progress of projects relevant to the HBC project.
Themes
Themes
Modernisation and Heritagisation
Identity-making through materials-based heritage approaches
Collective memory and Identity as a process of border-making and
-blurring
Border-making through typology
Speakers
Speakers
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Heritage, industrial civilization, and its discontents
Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto
The civilisational discourse and its development in modern Iran
Researcher, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Multiple modernities and civilisations
Adjunct Professor (Humanities and Social Sciences), La Trobe University
Principal Honorary in The School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne
Balancing heritage – in a world out of balance
Archaeologist, Cambridge University Affiliated Member, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Civilizational narratives and heritage in the Croatian borderlands
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
Founding member of the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, University of Cambridge
Heritage at the edge: Coastal currents and their intercivilizational engagement
Historical Sociologist and social theorist, Federation University Australia
Repatriation of cultural heritage as intercivilisational encounters
Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology, Aarhus University
Director of the Museum of Ancient Art and Archaeology, Aarhus University
Civilisations in time: setting territorial temporalities in Finland
Geographer, University of Helsinki
President of the Geographical Society of Finland
Roman origin myths as civilizational narratives
Archaeological Researcher, Linnaeus University
Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University
Civilizational discourse and the instrumentalization of cultural heritage in contemporary Russia
Ph.D. in Sociology & Senior Research Fellow, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Civilisational Boundaries: Heritage–Border Complexes and the Spatial Logics of Multipolarity
Honorary Senior Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
Vice President, Association for Critical Heritage Studies
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