Critical Heritage Studies and Decolonial Thought

At the Estonian Academy of Arts

The course is for PhD and MA students of the Estonian Doctoral School for Humanities and Arts.

It is possible to obtain 3ECTS for the course.

This intensive one-week course will introduce students to new thinking in critical heritage studies with a focus on decolonial methods and practice. Engaging with literature on topics such as power and positionality, critical care for dissonant and difficult heritage, reparative methods, and responding to silence and erasure, students will broaden their understanding of the intersection between colonialism, (de)coloniality, heritage and identity politics.
Thinking with scholars discussed in the morning seminars, we’ll visit local heritage sites in the afternoons where we will discuss further in context. Assessment will be by oral presentation during which students will present their own work in dialogue with thinkers discussed in class. Presentations will take place at the end of each morning session except the first one.

Program (and reading materials): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXacbiiruFKyxm61LS3-NhhLup_IAqw8/view?usp=sharing

Facilitator is Victoria Donovan, Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies, University of St Andrews.

Register HERE. Registration deadline is 24.03.2025.
Participants will be selected on the basis of a short motivation letter. Preference will be given to PhD students, followed by MA students whose thesis topic is related to heritage studies.

Contact: Irene Hütsi, irene.hutsi@artun.ee

Estonian Doctoral School for Humanities and Arts.