Entangled Pasts, Living Presents: Conversations on Heritage, Memory, and the Mediterranean brings together scholars from archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, and environmental humanities to examine how the material past continues to shape the social, political, and ecological present of the Mediterranean.
Rather than a series of lectures, the event unfolds as a moderated dialogue among seven speakers whose work collectively spans ancient ritual and materiality, infrastructural anthropology, heritage governance, environmental change, and cultural representation.
At the heart of the discussion lies a central question: how do material traces—ruins, artifacts, infrastructures, and landscapes—carry and contest meanings of belonging, identity, and responsibility in the contemporary world?
Through short provocations and lively exchange, the conversation explores how heritage operates not merely as a legacy of the past, but as a living, relational process that is constantly reactivated by human, ecological, and material forces.
This event resonates with current turns in the humanities toward materiality, infrastructure studies, and environmental temporality, engaging public debates around the Anthropocene, postcolonial heritage politics, and Mediterranean modernities.