In her paper Heritage Out Of Control: Human Bones as Inherited Waste of Europe  Dr Kasia Williams (ANUCES) reflects on memory landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe, and an ambiguous status of human remains described by John Harries as “a strange kind of waste”  (2016).

It is part of the AllegraLab thematic thread #HeritageoutofControl edited by Annika Kirbis, Serawit Debele, Çiçek İlengiz, which came out of the energizing workshop organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in March 2021. The initial idea was to think about heritage through the lenses of the non-curated. Focusing on absences, affective dissonances and silent consensuses, this thematic thread emerged out of four overlapping questions about heritage: Under what circumstances does waste become heritage, and heritage becomes waste? How does the intimate relationship between spirits and energies operate in relation to the abstract public that heritage presupposes? Can spirits, rituals, energies be imagined as heritage?

Read all the contributions here.