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Jasper Chalcraft Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy Suggested Running Head: The Contact Zones of Heritage Diplomacy ABSTRACT Heritage is increasingly promoted as a tool for economic and social development to help rebuild societies that have suffered conflict and deep social trauma. Heritage diplomacy is an emergent form of cultural […]

by Lars Ebert How to deal with the dark sides of institutional histories, with ambiguous stories in times that demand simple answers? A moralistic turn in the artistic field and public opinion dominated by a culture of outrage requires new forms of institutional development. Castrum Peregrini can serve as an illustration of how institutionally established

by Kees Boterbloem A decade after the Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys had been published, I met Jan Struys in Haarlem1. Or rather, I met his likely descendant Jan Struys, who is a well-known Dutch police official. Jan told me that, when reading my recent Dutch retranslation into modern Dutch of the 1676 bestseller

by Aram Lee The Bauhaus movement was, in regards, founded as a universality and as a movement of modernity. Its huge tangible power extolled the concept of western modernity through its transformation of objects, buildings and landscapes over 100 years of global design history. As part of the modernisation process, the Bauhaus aimed to create