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[caption id="attachment_2503" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Akram Zaatari, On photography, dispossession and times of struggle, Liban, 2017[/caption]Lieu : Florence, Photothek in Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Via dei Servi 51,Date : 18 au 20 avril 2018War, Photo Archives and the Temporalities of Cultural HeritageWhat do photographic archives tell us about cultural heritage and the ways it is shaped by military and political conflicts? This workshop seeks to investigate the entanglements between war, cultural heritage and photography from a wider chronological and critical perspective. It aims to broaden the scope of research beyond its traditional focus on the politics of representation and on the consequences of armed conflicts for monumental heritage. Its premise is the recognition that both institutional negotiations and private conversations about what is to be defined as cultural heritage take place very often in relation to conflicts and in front of photographs, photo collections and photo albums – or digital images shared on social networks.Historically, the notion of cultural heritage was impelled by war and intertwined with the establishment of photographic archives. This notion is anything but static: it has been enlarged and adapted over time in order to serve different political and identity projects. Through international institutions it has been consolidated at the global scale, but also constantly reshaped. Acknowledging the importance of rescue or reconstruction initiatives, the workshop emphasises that these must always be seen in relation to geopolitical agendas and societal contexts. It thus seeks to investigate how photography serves as a tool for the protection and at the same time also for the production of a certain idea of cultural heritage in a given cultural context. It also intends to interrogate recent technological advances, their effectiveness, practical challenges and socio-political consequences. The workshop will therefore contribute to the deconstruction and rethinking of the concept of 'cultural heritage'. This concept will be historicised and problematised vis-à-vis a range of different photographic archives as well as historical and current photographic practices.The workshop will consider WWI and WWII photographic archives not only as documentation of the destruction of monuments: they also preserve the collective memory of genocide and racism as well as private memories of war. All these aspects play a part in the dynamic process of the making of cultural heritage. It will enquire into the present-day role of these photo archives in post-conflict reconciliation and in preserving and maintaining the heritage and memory of war, and will explore their often contested meanings. Further case studies will help to facilitate a critical analysis of current re-negotiations of cultural heritage that are taking place on a global scale in relation to recent conflicts – e.g. in Syria and Egypt – and digital image production. Last but not least, the workshop will look at photographic archives as cultural heritage, analysing their collective and individual dimensions.Workshoporganized by Costanza Caraffa, Almut Goldhahn (Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence) and Ewa Manikowska (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) with the generous support of the Deutsch-Polnische WissenschaftsstiftungPROGRAMWEDNESDAY 18 APRIL18.00 Evening LectureChallenges of Representing History in Museums: Between Academia, Politics and EntertainmentPaweł Machcewicz | Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Political Studies, Warsaw / Wissenschaftskolleg BerlinTHURSDAY 19 APRIL9.30IntroductionCostanza Caraffa, Almut Goldhahn | Kunsthistorisches Institut in FlorenzEwa Manikowska | Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art, WarsawPANEL I  BEYOND MONUMENTSChair: Ewa Manikowska | Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art, Warsaw10.00Ruinscapes of Revolution: Photography, Empire and the Irish RevolutionJustin Carville | Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology10.45 Coffee Break11.15Curating a RevolutionLucie Ryzova | University of Birmingham12.00Futures Deferred: Heritage and Photography in the Shadow of VaroshaColin Sterling | University College, London12.45Panel Discussion13.30 Lunch BreakPANEL II  SYSTEMS OF VALUEChair: Tiziana Serena | Università degli Studi di Firenze14.30Visual Strategies for Peace-Building: Photographic Archives &#38; Architectural Heritage at UNESCO, c. 1945-60Tom Allbeson | Cardiff University15.15The Making and Unmaking of Syrian Cultural Heritage. The Photo Archive as a Tool of Negotiating and Shaping Cultural HeritageRasha Kanjarawi | Syrian Heritage Archive Project, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin16.00 Coffee Break16.30The Impact of Armed Conflicts on the Legal Notion of Cultural HeritageAndrzej Jakubowski | Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Law Studies, Warsaw17.15Panel Discussion17.45 Coffee Break18.00Screening On Photography, Dispossession and Times of Struggle (38 min., 2017)Introduction by and discussion with the artist Akram Zaatari | BeirutFRIDAY 20 APRILPANEL III  PRIVATE/PUBLICChair: Hana Gründler | Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz10.00A Murder Between Wars: Dr Alfred Wiener's Response to the Assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, 1936Ben Barkow | Wiener Library, London10.45 Coffee Break11.15"We believe in the Objectivity of the Camera...". Private Photo Albums of World War II as Personal Archives and Cultural HeritagePetra Bopp | Kolleg-Forschergruppe BildEvidenz, Freie Universität Berlin12.00The Personal Space and the Public Space, Peace and War in the Family Photo Archives of the Residents of Donbass (Ukraine)Ekateryna Siryk | Donbass – Family Photo Archive Project12.45Panel Discussion13.30 Lunch BreakPANEL IV  NO ARCHIVE IS INNOCENTChair: Almut Goldhahn | Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz14.30Order and Melancholy. Photography and Scholarship, 1935-1947Hannah Baader | Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz15.15Difficult Past. Nazi Photographic Collection of the Polish Highlanders from Podhale RegionStanisława Trebunia-Staszel | Jagiellonian University, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Cracow16.00Panel Discussion16.30 Coffee Break17.00 RoundtableRe-cycling Photographic MemoriesPaweł Machcewicz, Lucie Ryzova, Akram ZaatariChair: Costanza CaraffaCONTACTCostanza CaraffaE-Mail: caraffa@khi.fi.itAlmut GoldhahnE-Mail: goldhahn@khi.fi.itVENUEPhotothek in Palazzo Grifoni Budini GattaiKunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-InstitutVia dei Servi 5150122 Florence / ItalyFURTHER INFORMATIONWeb: http://khi.fi.itNewsletter: http://www.khi.fi.it/newsletterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/khi.fi.itVideo: https://vimeo.com/khiflorenz