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 Culture Heritage: Myth and Social Movement

文化遗产：神话与运动

Dr. Yujie Zhu

Australian Center of China in the World, ANU, Australia

Time: 15:00, 10 June, Tuesday

Venue: 东五208, Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies,  Zhejiang University, China

Using metaphors of myth and social movement, this talk will examine the complex nature of culture heritage in the global context. Scholars and public media usually consider the World Heritage list as an effective mechanism to protect and inherit culture heritage. However, through illustrating the dynamic dialogue among the international organizations, the government, and the local community, I will argue that culture heritage should not be fantasized as a global rewarding system, but an “authorized” discourse to continuously reinvent myths for nation building and value making. I will also indicate that, as a new form of social movement, heritage remains one of the most powerful forces the state seeks to dominate popular narrative of “Modern China”.

About the Speaker

Dr. Yujie Zhu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Heidelberg University, Germany. His research interests lie on different aspects of cultural heritage in historic cities of China. He is the only Chinese awardee of the prestigious UNESCO Heritage Management Fellowship in 2007. As part of his work in UNWTO, he co-edited the volume “Enhancing Inter-Agency and Stakeholder Coordination for Joint Action in Sustainable Management at World Heritage Sites” in 2009. Yujie is the Vice Chair of Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism in International Union of Anthropological and ethnological Sciences (IUAES). As a key member of the ANU Center for Heritage and Museum Studies, he is co-organizing the International Conference of Critical Heritage Studies in 2014 with Prof. Laurajane Smith.