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Event Date: 19 October 2011
The Ironbridge Institute
Ironbridge Gorge Museum

Dr Christopher Young 
World Heritage Sites: management and conservation issues and policy

Part 1: What is World Heritage?

This lecture provides an overview of the concept of World Heitage Sites and their management within Britain. It examines the history of the World Heritage convention and seeks to explore what the convention is trying to achieve and how British government policy relates to those issues. Case studies are examined to explore the issues and conflicts surrounding the management of world heritage sites, including issues such as setting and how World Heritage Sites can appear on the World Heritage at Risk register.

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Event Date: 19 October 2011
The Ironbridge Institute
Ironbridge Gorge Museum

Dr Christopher Young 
World Heritage Sites: management and conservation issues and policy

Part 2: World Heritage Committee Concerns

This lecture provides an overview of the concept of World Heitage Sites and their management within Britain. It examines the history of the World Heritage convention and seeks to explore what the convention is trying to achieve and how British government policy relates to those issues. Case studies are examined to explore the issues and conflicts surrounding the management of world heritage sites, including issues such as setting and how World Heritage Sites can appear on the World Heritage at Risk register.

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Event Date: 17 May 2011
43 Gordon Square 
Birkbeck College 
LONDON WC1E

Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC) presents:

Professor Cécile Fabre - The Philosophy of Humanitarian Intervention

Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC) exists in order to bring together academics from a range of disciplines (literature, philosophy, film and visual culture, fine art, sociology, linguistics, history, psychology) to discuss these questions and to engage in crucial debates around what constitutes ‘belonging’ in the so-called post-modern era. How have bonds between humans – real, ideal and sometimes imaginary – been lived, represented and conceptualised over the centuries? How have those bonds mutated across time and space? How might humans today and in the future be bound together “differently”? What prevents the realisation of bonds as yet unnamed? How might the various strands of the Arts and Humanities contribute to a new understanding of forms of relation and living together?

At BRAKC we run regular symposia, seminars, film screenings, a termly reading group, all devoted to exploring visions – old and new – of kinship and community. Our aim is to bring together theory and practice, art and empiricism, ethics and aesthetics, in order to pursue an ongoing academic project whose only rule is its collective refusal to conclude that “there is no such thing as society”.

Contact BRAKC Directors, Dr. Andrew Asibong and Dr. Nathalie Wourm, at brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk

Event Date: 18 January 2011
Location:Royal Holloway

Graham Smith (Royal Holloway) -  Changing embodied Narratives in Oral Histories of General Practice in Britain c1948 – 1990.

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