Dr Andrew Lind, Dr Andrew Jennings, Professor Mairéad Nic Craith and Professor Ullrich Kockel of the UHI Institute for Northern Studies together with PhD Candidate Sarah Squire, will be attending the Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (HerInDep) Conference held in Prague between 27th August and 29th August 2025.
The project itself is a 3 year research programme which deals with how the decline of European peripheral areas is contributing to the loss of intangible culture, abandonment and the degradation of buildings and landscapes, and the impact which this has on the people who live in these depopulated areas. The primary goal of the project is to explore how fragile local communities can resist the consequences of demographic change.
The institute team are working with colleagues at Charles University( Prague, Czech Republic) and Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) and focusses on three case study areas: Broumovsko (Charles University), Kaunas (Kaunas University) and the Shetland Islands (UHI). The project seeks to evaluate and inform the behaviour of local, regional and national stakeholders in relation to the threats of depopulation upon cultural heritage.
For those who cannot attend the conference there is a live stream for each day. Choose the presentation you are interested in from the program of particular conference rooms and join the selected session on-line.
Conference Room One
Conference Room Two
Conference Room Three
Roundtable
HerInDep is funded by Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH),Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC UKRI)
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT),Research Council of Lithuania (LMT)
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