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大学阿默斯特分校和五所学院联盟的15名本科生和研究生提供职业生涯早期的国际研究经验。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“欧洲社会和空间的文化遗产(国际象棋)”这一主题进行系统的比较研究。在这三年中的每一年，研究项目都将围绕一个中心研究流来组织：1)“记忆、纪念碑和纪念”，2)“欧洲多元文化遗产”和3)“产地”。通过开发与一组中心研究问题相关的项目，学生将有助于对作为争议、冲突和凝聚力的地点的文化遗产进行全球比较调查的三个关键领域。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研究政策制定者、公民和其他社会行为者如何使用核心学科概念提供了新的民族志调查机会。拟议的计划为人种学实地学校提供了一个综合框架，该学校将吸引人类学四个子领域的学生参与，并作为应用遗产人类学跨学科团队建设的典范。政府机构面临着制定反映我国多样化、多文化遗产的公共规划的新要求，对受过应用遗产人类学及相关领域培训的社会科学家的需求也越来越大。该项目的更广泛的影响包括：1)培训不同的美国学生群体，对多文化、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发展科学网络，为进一步的国际赞助研究奠定基础；3)与西班牙的教职员工和学生合作，通过一个在线项目中心向公众提供一系列系统的比较研究出版物。该项目将在欧洲伙伴机构和加州大学马萨诸塞州人类学系、遗产与社会研究和欧洲研究证书计划以及五所学院联盟之间建立协同倡议。

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.