Launched in 2025, Heritage Week connects and showcases heritage research at the University of Bonn while opening it to innovative interdisciplinary exchange.
This year’s theme, Heritage Ecologies: Restitution, Repair, and Renewal, foregrounds relational approaches to heritage. It addresses pressing questions such as the legacies of war and looting and considers forms of redress, including reparation and restitution, alongside landscapes as heritage, the role of the sacred, and the future of archives.
A special highlight is the New Paths lecture by Shumon Hussain, which introduces the concept of “Deep Time Heritage” and explores how extended temporalities can reshape heritage research through interdisciplinary perspectives.
The 2026 edition is funded by the TRA Present Pasts and organized by a wide network of partners, fostering new transregional connections, particularly with colleagues from the University of Cologne.
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Heritage Week 2026 is jointly organised by the Global Heritage Lab (GHL) - Transdisciplinary Research Area TRA Present Pasts, the Department of Anthropology of the Americas, the BASA Museum, the Department of Empirical Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology, the Department of Art History, the Center for Development Research (ZEF), the Bonn Center for Reconciliation Research (ZFV), and the Center for Historical Peace Research (ZHF).