Projects
Dialogue for Cinema as Cultural Heritage: Identification, recognition and community-based inventory of cinemas as the intangible cultural heritage in Adana via cross-border dialogue Ghent University
The overall objective: to promote civil society dialogue and networking between the CSOs and stakeholders in Adana and the EU, by focusing on the field of historic cinema places and cinemagoing experiences as intangible cultural heritage values in Adana. Specific objectives: (1) to raise awareness, especially amongst youth and European civil society, on the cultural heritage value of historical cinema places and experiences in Adana, (2) to ...
AFRISURGE: Transformative Heritage: politics, peacebuilding and digital restitution of cultural heritage in contemporary Northeast DRCongo Ghent University
International aid and peacebuilding agencies active in Africa often rely on customary leaders to implement interventions in local communities. Their activities reflect functionalist, compartmentalized and rigid understandings of African leadership reminiscent of the colonial era when local leaders were co-opted for purposes of indirect rule. Western misconceptions often complicate rather than solve conflicts and humanitarian problems, and ...