Destroyed, Forgotten, and Reappearing Heritage in Japan

ToRS is proud to host six public lectures in two panel sessions by international experts in Japanese approaches to cultural and World Heritage.

Photo: Jens Sejrup
Photo: Jens Sejrup

Japan is one of the world’s leading agents in heritage production and development, and these lectures will discuss processes of creation, recreation, and forgetting of built heritage in Japan. Together, the group seeks to complicate the dichotomy of enduring vs. transitory heritage, reassess similarities and differences between Japanese and Euro-American concepts and ideas of “authentic” heritage, and develop nuanced theories of flux in heritage architecture. All are welcome – no registration required.

Programme

9:00 - 11:00 Session 1
  • Christian Tagsold (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf): “Creating Heritage by Recreating Gardens”
  • Daniel Milne (Kyoto University): “Disappearing, Appearing: Sites of War Mourning in Postwar Kyoto”
  • Alice Tseng (Boston University): “When Architecture Leaves the Country: Heritage, History, and Meaning Crossing  Borders”
11:15 - 13:15 Session 2
  • Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University): “Hiroshima’s Transwar and the Architecture of Memory and Forgetting”
  • Ellen Van Goethem (Kyushu University): “Options for the Past: Monuments, Shrines, and Historical Parks”
  • Jens Sejrup (University of Copenhagen): “A Future of Value: Historical reconstruction, heritage, and time” 

The event is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF25-2055.