New operating period for the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies
With 2023, the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) at the University of Gothenburg begins a new operating period of six years. With the new period comes a new board, a newly formed executive group and a strengthened platform for cooperation with cultural heritage institutions in the Västra Götaland region.
“Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) is now entering a new and exciting phase, featuring openness, inclusion, and rejuvenation. 2023 is a year of restructuring and reinvigorating the cross-disciplinary centre”, says Astrid von Rosen, new director for the centre since January.
New board and executive group
The centre's board consists of the deans from the six constituent faculties at the University of Gothenburg and two external members. The external members are Dennis Axelsson, Head of Urban Planning, Cultural Affairs Administration, Gothenburg/Gothenburg City Museum, and Kerstin Alnebratt, head of administration for the Västra Götaland region's Administration for Cultural Development (förvaltningschef för Västra Götalandsregionens Förvaltningen för Kulturutveckling).
“2023 brings a new beginning, new strategies, and we are excited to continue with the centre for six more years. Both the new board and executive group is a testament to our cross-facultative anchoring. Interdisciplinarity, but also cross-border collaboration between academia and the outside world, is fundamental to the centre's work”, says Astrid von Rosen.
Right now, the centre is working on a new collaboration agreement for the Heritage Academy, the platform for cooperation between various cultural heritage institutions, the University of Gothenburg and the Västra Götaland region, which has been part of the centre since 2012.
Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) at the University of Gothenburg operates as an inter-faculty research centre at the University of Gothenburg.
Cultural heritage is the reworking of the past in the present. We are devoted to critical and interdisciplinary studies of the many layers of cultural heritage as a material, intangible, emotional and intellectual field.
CCHS activities are framed in research areas and the Heritage Academy - a platform for, and collaboration with, external actors as museums, archives, NGO's etc
Astrid von Rosen is the new Director for the centre supported by Deputy Director Ola Wetterberg and Coordinator Jenny Högström Berntson.
