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Moving Borders- Archaeology in the Presence- 2025 onward
“Archaeology has been profoundly malleable as a symbolic exercise, its discoveries are laden with additional meaning, and its process can be compared to detective work (Shanks 1996) or performance (Shanks 2004, 2012). Importantly, at various points there has been a greater emphasis on archaeology as the recovery of fragments, rather than the whole picture. Archaeology recovers what
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Politics, Peace, and Sports
In his new article “Die neue Regel ist der Regelbruch” (The new rule is breaking the rules) for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Jörg Scheller argues that the decline in global peacefulness and the increasingly violent policies of the Trump administration, the Kremlin, or the Chinese Communist Party can be analyzed as a departure from the principles
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Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland
Jörg Scheller was invited by the University of Groningen (NL) to present and discuss art projects from present-day Poland that oppose the rampant polarization between internationally oriented left-wing liberals and nationally oriented right-wing conservatives. His lecture “Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland” focused on artists (a.o. Daniel Rycharski and Jana Shostak)
The research project Contemporary Art, Popular Culture and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at Zurich University of the Arts. The project examines the potential and limitations of contemporary art and popular culture for peacebuilding in three (Central) Eastern European countries: Poland, Moldova, and Armenia. Recognising a gap in peace studies, which often overlook Eastern Europe, the project aims to connect the arts with peacebuilding by exploring three different types of conflict.
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