Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)

这个美国-西班牙IRES项目将为来自马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学和五所学院联盟的15名本科生和研究生提供早期职业国际研究经验。与会者将与西班牙巴塞罗那大学文化管理研究生项目合作，围绕“欧洲社会和空间中的文化遗产（CHESS）”这一主题进行系统的比较研究。三年中的每一年，研究项目将围绕一个中心研究流组织：1）“记忆，纪念碑和纪念活动”，2）“欧洲的多元文化遗产”和3）“生产地”。“通过开发与一组中心研究问题相关的项目，学生将为全球文化遗产的比较调查的三个关键领域做出贡献，作为一个遗址，冲突和凝聚力。几十年来，人类学家一直在批判性地研究文化和遗产的概念，但遗产管理领域的兴起为民族志研究提供了新的机会，研究决策者、公民和其他社会行为者如何使用核心学科概念。拟议的计划提供了一个民族志领域的学校，将吸引学生在人类学的四个子领域的参与，并作为应用遗产人类学的跨学科团队建设的模式的综合框架。政府机构面临着新的需求，以制定反映我们国家的多样性，多元文化遗产的公共方案，并有一个在应用遗产人类学和相关领域的社会科学家培训的需求越来越大。 该项目的更广泛影响包括：1）培训一批不同的美国学生，对多元文化民主社会的文化遗产政策进行国际比较人类学研究; 2）在美国和西班牙的人类学家之间建立科学网络，为进一步的国际赞助研究奠定基础;和3）与来自西班牙的教师和学生合作，通过在线项目中心向公众提供一系列系统的比较研究出版物。 该项目将在欧洲合作机构与马萨诸塞大学人类学系、遗产与社会研究和欧洲研究证书课程以及五所学院联盟之间建立协同举措。

This US-Spain IRES project will provide an early-career international research experience for fifteen undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Five Colleges consortium. Participants will conduct systematic, comparative research around the theme of "Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)" in collaboration with the graduate Program in Cul-tural Management at the University of Barcelona in Spain. For each of the three years, research projects will be organized around a central research stream: 1) "Memory, monuments, and commemoration," 2) "Multicultural heritage in Europe" and 3) "Producing localities." By developing their projects in relation to a central set of research questions, students will contribute to three key areas of inquiry for global, comparative investigation of cultural heritage as a site of contestation, conflict, and cohesion. Anthropol-ogists have critically engaged the concepts of culture and heritage for decades, but the rise of the field of heritage management offers new opportunities for ethnographic investigation of how core disciplinary concepts are used by policymakers, citizens, and other social actors. The proposed program provides an integrative framework for an ethnographic field school that will draw the participation of students across the four subfields of anthropology and serve as a model for interdisciplinary teambuilding in applied heritage anthropology. Government institutions face new demands to develop public programming that reflects our nation's diverse, multicultural heritage, and there is a growing need for social scientists trained in applied heritage anthropology and related fields. Broader impacts of this project include: 1) training a diverse group of US students for international, comparative anthropological research on cultural heritage policies in multicul-tural, democratic societies; 2) developing scientific networks between anthropologists in the US and Spain that will form the basis for further international sponsored research; and 3) collaborating with faculty and students from Spain to produce a body of systematic, comparative research publications available to the public through an online project hub. This project will build synergistic initiatives between European partner institutions and the UMass Department of Anthropology, the Heritage and Society Studies and European Studies certificate programs, and the Five Colleges consortium.