The Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group (HCDG) is a network run out of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (University of Cambridge). It brings together a diverse community of people working on, involved in and/or have an interest in a vast array of topics surrounding heritage and colonialism.
The HCDG 2022-2023 programme will centre around the theme 'Legacies of Injustice'. The theme encompasses a broad range of injustices, in both the past and the present, which are connected to a complex web of colonial issues.
For the 2022 Michaelmas term, we are delighted to announce the following speakers and their talks:
October 11 (14:00-15:00 GMT)
Lesley Hatipone Machiridza
Critical Reflections on Heritage Repackaging for Industrialization: “Blessing or Curse?”
October 25 (14:00-15:00 GMT)
Dalitso Ruwe
Eugenic Caricatures of Black Male Death from the Nineteenth- to Twenty-First Centuries
November 8 (14:00-15:00 GMT)
Ayesha Fuentes
Documenting Time and the Legacies of Displacement at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
November 22 (14:00-15:00 GMT)
Jack Ashby
Legacies of Colonial Violence and Injustice in Natural History Museums
December 6 (14:00-15:00 GMT)
Diti Bhattacharya
Negotiating Discordant Colonial Injustices: An Examination of Formal and Informal Spaces of Heritage in the Former Portuguese Territory of Panjim in Goa and Former French Colony of Chandernagore in West Bengal
