Lecture series

The lecture series of the research group “Identity and Heritage” is taking place regularly on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm and alternating between the locations of the research group (Weimar, Berlin, Dessau and Erfurt). Current positions in cultural heritage research are presented and discussed in a 45-minute lecture. Audio recordings of the lectures can be listened to in our audio archive.

22.04.2025

18:45

Weimar

Oliver Trepte: Architecture of sport climbing – architectural, urban planning and monument preservation aspects of a trend sport (GER)

Climbing is omnipresent. However, the sport’s new ubiquity manifests itself less as an activity in a natural environment and more as a cultural technique in artificial spaces. To date, research into trendsports has been dominated by movement science, sports history, psychology and philosophy. In contrast, the phenomenon has yet to be scientifically analysed from an architectural, urban planningand heritage conservation perspective.

20.05.2025

18:30

Berlin

Áine Ryan: Material Tells: Revealing spatial patterns of everyday landscape with a vernacular building type. (EN)

The talk outlines a socio-collectively experienced landscape that was perceptible to Gaelic-Irish society in certain landscape features. Among these features was a type of outdoor social space widely built during colonial English rule in the manner of a non-conscious heritage practice. An interpretative examination of the material evidence of all known examples of this vernacularly built space (570 at the time) revealed key spatial characteristics of this lived landscape.

27.05.2025

18:45

Weimar

Elisaveta Dvorakk: Affect and Identification: Aesthetic and Epistemological Potentials of Aftermath Photography. (GER)

Aftermath photography engages with the traces and repercussions of violence without depicting the actual event. This lecture analyses the epistemological potentials of this photographic genre, which operates at the intersection of aesthetics, image critique, and knowledge production. The starting point is the question of how aftermath photography functions within an episteme of visibility, in which violence is often either rendered invisible or circulates in the media as hyper-affective and hyper-aestheticised shock imagery.