About the Programme

From colonialism to monolingualism to globalization, cultural vulnerability occurs in and due to many contexts and in many forms. This FDP engages with forms through which cultures and cultural practices become vulnerable, but also develop resilience and resistance. The Programme brings together experts to examine these forms of cultural vulnerability, from language vulnerability and the vulnerability of folk and indigenous cultures to cultural erasure and historical vulnerabilities in the form of war and genocide. Experts will also address acts of resistance to cultural vulnerability in, say, memorial cultures and through multilingualism. The FDP also examines ideas such as ‘cultural protection’ and global projects such as the ‘Memory of the World’. The objective is to foreground methods of reading contexts of cultural vulnerability, cultural memory and cultural resilience when faced with erasure.