Oliver Smithies Lecture: Dreaming Spires and Colonial Nightmares: Cultural Heritage, Human Flourishing and Social Justice
Essential to the character of Oxford its cultural heritage – from dreaming spires to its beautiful quadrangles and magnificent halls. Yet that heritage is implicated in a history of colonialism and inequality. I propose to consider cultural heritage through the lens of social justice. This involves a candid reckoning with the historic injustice instantiated in dominant heritage narratives, but also how heritage might be understood in a way that contributes to social justice, understood in an expansive sense of furthering human flourishing.
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:15
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Speaker: Professor Christine Sypnowich
Organiser contact email address: college.office@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking email: college.office@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Genny Teague