Recently, I was reading a post on LinkedIn where a World Heritage expert was attempting to define cultural heritage for the twenty-first century. Many people have tried to do this,…
Last year, I was invited to contribute a short piece to the book edited by Max Page and Marla R. Miller, Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty…
In April of 2016, I sent a reply to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation commenting on their draft Policy Statement on Historic Preservation and Community Revitalization. I thought it…
In my earlier post, I summarized the first full day of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) 2016 conference. Now that I’ve returned home, I wanted to sum up…
Luckily for me, as I live in New England, the third Association for Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) conference is a relatively close drive to Montreal, Canada. I’ve had the privilege…
If you teach in an historic preservation or built heritage conservation program in a college or university, you may be aware that there are very few publications that directly address…
Back in 2009, the Getty held a conference on "Consensus Building, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution for Heritage Place Management." Although perhaps a bit tardy, the eponymous proceedings have finally been…
A few weeks ago, I attended the 7th National Forum on Preservation Practice hosted by Goucher College, which focused on the next 50 years of practice. One thing I’ve always…
Recently, I was reading through the papers from the 2013 Australia ICOMOS Conference in the journal, Historic Environment (vol. 27, no. 2, 2015). A couple of papers really struck my…
With the conclusion of the on-the-ground research for the Horto d'El Rey project, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of the current and former students of the…