Professor Joy Porter, University of Birmingham
WAV041 – Wavy Top, Central Park – Loughborough campus / Hybrid | 12 February 2025 | 1–2pm
Historic properties and their environments face acute challenges from climate change and a diversity deficit linked to the perception they embody only empire and exploitation. Without diminishing these histories, the Historic Houses Global Crossroads project is revealing how historic sites can beneficially position themselves in a new way, as global crossroads, entangled intersections of diplomatic, material and intercultural exchange.
Setting aside both methodological nationalism and a conventional family-owner focus, it foregrounds global interconnections between people, environments, material culture, and ideas. This work has vital significance in the contested political context of Northern Ireland where historic houses are embedded in a long history of empire, internal colonialism and sectarian division. We are deepening and profoundly broadening understanding of both sites, revealing for the first time the textured flows of global interconnection they embody.
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