CRITICAL CONSERVATION
NEWS
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Calling for Participation
Critical Conservation Assembly #1: Communities of Practice, December 3-4, 2026 Conservation has often been understood as the technical stabilization of material objects, guided by professional expertise and institutional authority. While this paradigm has shaped Western conservation practice for decades, it does not fully account for the diverse ways in which communities sustain, transmit, and transform…
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Introducing the Team
We are delighted to introduce the growing team behind the research project Critical Conservation. Bringing together expertise from heritage preservation, conservation studies, art history, aethetics, critical heritage studies, and environmental humanities, the project explores how conservation practices shape the ways we understand, preserve, and care for art, heritage, and environments today.
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Vacancies: Join our team
🎓 We’re Hiring: Join the Critical Conservation Research Team at HKB! Are you passionate about conservation, heritage, and critical research? The Bern University of Applied Sciences – Academy of the Arts (HKB) is recruiting for four roles in the SNSF-funded project Critical Conservation—a bold, interdisciplinary initiative rethinking conservation as a pluricultural, political, and epistemic practice.…
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SNSF grants support!
In Spring 2025, the Swiss National Science Foundation announced its support for our new four-year research initiative, Critical Conservation. This generous support will enable a team of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to engage with emerging trends in contemporary conservation while critically revisiting established domains, theorems, and paradigms. Building on the significant outcomes of our previous…
Our Team
Dr. hanna barbara Hölling, Professor and Project lead
Dr. Juliana Robles de la Pava, postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Samidha mahesh Pusalkar, Senior research associate
Marcello Rechberger, project assistant
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Center for Critical Conservation is a platform for scholars, practitioners, and all those eager to rethink conservation at its roots.
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We’re always looking for engaging research and contributors from around the world. If you’re a researcher, practitioner, or simply someone interested in critical approaches to conservation and would like to get in touch, email us at centerforcriticalconservation@gmail.com.
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