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Pembroke Hall at Brown University

172 Meeting Street
Providence, RI 02912 United States
401-863-6070 https://www.brown.edu/academics/humanities/

May 2018

Third Annual Hacking Heritage Unconference

May 12, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Pembroke Hall at Brown University, 172 Meeting Street
Providence, RI 02912 United States
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$10

Heritage. Who owns It? How do we use it? How do we change it? Hacking Heritage, now in its third iteration, invites questions and conversations about how and why we protect, interpret, manage and market our cultural heritage that may be uncomfortable, provocative, critical, or, as one of our steering committee members put it, just plain weird. It is a place to gather and talk together about things like experimental preservation, marginalized stories, historic houses, monuments, sites of conscience and…

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March 2019

Fourth Annual Hacking Heritage Unconference

March 2, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Pembroke Hall at Brown University, 172 Meeting Street
Providence, RI 02912 United States
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FREE

What we choose to preserve often tells us more about what we value in the present than it does about our past. That’s why conversations about what to preserve and what to demolish — what to archive and what to throw out — are so fierce. We can’t save everything, can we? So what shall we save? Who gets to make these decisions? How does this effect you, your family, your community, your neighborhood, your city, your state, your country…

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