CALL FOR PAPERS
Chair: Stephen STEAD, UK
This theme is intended to run over several years and deals with two aspects of the relationship between Cultural Heritage and Conflict. The first is the material and immaterial remains of conflict being part of our shared Cultural Heritage and the second is focused on how to protect Cultural Heritage during conflict or other military operations. The first aspect will be dealt with following a series of sub-themes which can be the focus for particular conference. The second can be run every year or as and when papers become available.
We are only interested in papers that focus on the application of New Technologies to Conflict Cultural Heritage not on the theory or practice of Conflict Archaeology or related fields themselves. So reports on Battlefield Surveys and their results are not the focus of this theme but the application of GIS, remote sensing, aerial photography, database representation of the results, VR tours or similar techniques to Battlefield Survey are core to it.
The first series of sub-themes will include (but is not limited to!):-
- Battlefields (suggested as sub theme focus for 2015)
- Military landscapes (including logistic infrastructure) (suggested as sub theme focus for 2016)
- Artefact versus Manoeuvres: approaches to battlefield narrative
- Virtual Battle Reconstruction: board game design vs computer game vs re-enactment vs simulations vs historical analysis
- Shaping of urban spaces by their defences
- Aviation archaeology
- Military memorials and graveyards
- Military records particularly in support of genealogy studies
- Cultural Heritage as propaganda
The second area will cover at least
- Protection of Documentation
- Documentation of Protection
- Training of Service personnel on aspects of Cultural Heritage and it’s protection during operations
- Management, inventory and protection of Cultural Heritage on Military Land (for instance ranges and training areas)
- Blue Shield and other conventions