Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium

Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene is part of the MoHoA global collaborative, taking place 26–28 October 2022, and builds on the Modern Heritage of Africa symposium hosted by the University of Cape Town in September 2021.

Coordinated by The Bartlett’s Professor Edward Denison and Head of the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture, Professor Ola Uduku, along with partners at the University of Cape Town, the Africa World Heritage Fund and around the world, this hybrid symposium responds to an age of planetary crisis in which a precarious present reflects an inequitable past and a perilous future.

Modern heritage in all its forms and from around the world is the subject of this multidisciplinary symposium, presenting the paradox of being of modernity and yet threatened by its consequences. MoHoA was originally conceived within an African context to interrogate this paradox because the continent encapsulates the historical inequities that characterise the modern and its associated notions of development and progress while also facing the highest rates of urbanisation over the next 30 years, demanding new approaches to the past and present that achieve equitable and sustainable futures on a planetary scale. The outcomes of the two symposia will synthesise in the recognition of the Cape Town Document on Modern Heritage.

Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene is part of the MoHoA global collaborative, taking place 26–28 October 2022, and builds on the Modern Heritage of Africa symposium hosted by the University of Cape Town in September 2021 (click this link to download the Proceedings).

Schedule

The symposium takes place from Wednesday 26 October to Friday 28 October.

• View the full symposium schedule here
• Explore the book of abstracts here

Attendance fees

The fee structure was conceived to reflect and support MoHoA’s principles of equity, diversity and inclusivity. The organisers would like to thank The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and The Bartlett School of Architecture for the support that has enabled the fees to be kept to a minimum so as to enable the widest possible participation in this event.

Please click on the price that applies to your preferred ticket and your circumstances to secure your ticket. 

* Countries: Based on gross national income (GNI) per capita, the World Bank’s main criterion for classifying economies. www.worldbank.org – Andorra, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Is., Channel Is., Chile, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Faeroe Is., Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Rep Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Mariana Is., Oman, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovak Rep., Slovenia, Spain, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Martin (French part), Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Virgin Islands (US).

** Countries: Any country not listed above.

MoHoa registration guarantees access to all conference sessions. It also guarantees access to two evening keynotes by Prof David Olusoga OBE (26 October, part of the International Lectures) and Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE (27 October). 

More information

• Visit MoHoA’s website
• Visit Prof Edward Denison’s profile
• Find out more about Prof David Olusoga's keynote lecture
• Find out more about Rosemary Campbell-Stephens' keynote lecture

Image: The international railway settlement of Fushun (northeast China), with its modern town planning and the Ryuho Colliery, built by Denang and Siemens, and home to one of the world’s largest open cast mines in the 1930s.