The Association of Professional Heritage Practitioners (APHP) has release the programme for its 2019 conference (download full details below this notice). The overall theme is "Reconnecting Heritage: Unpacking heritage dissonance".

The conference will be taking place from 5-7 April 2019 at the District Six Homecoming Centre, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town. Click here to register. The cost is R500 (R300 for students & free for staff at a state heritage institution).

PANEL 1: THE POLITICS OF ENGAGEMENT

• The Role of Social Impact Assessments in protecting Intangible Heritage - Lip Service or a tool for Inclusion, Social Justice and Advocacy by Maurietta Stewart
• The Bo-Kaap: Provincial Heritage Site? National Heritage Site? HPOZ? World Heritage Site? Just save it all by Quahnita Samie
• Using Personal Nostalgia and Shared Symbolic Structures as Heritage Tools: Recent experi- ences of engagement in Port Elizabeth by Bryan Wintermeyer

PANEL 2: MANAGING DISSONANCE IN MUSEUMS AND MEMORIALS

• Post-Conflict Museum Research - Interactions of Layers by Dr Mary Lange and Prof Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
• Stewart Memorial in Alice by William Martinson
• Negotiating Cultural Dissonance: Heritage Implications of "Rhodes Must Fall" and the removal of the Rhodes Statue, University of Cape Town by Melanie Attwell and Karin Strom
• Heritage is for All: Robben Island Museum World Heritage Site and the role of Stakeholders Relations by Christopher Solomons

PANEL 3: MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY IN HERITAGE

• Adaptive Re-use: An attitude towards Heritage Conservation by Llewellyn David Bryan
• Seeking, seeing and hearing heritage around Stellenbosch and Franschhoek by Antonia Ma- lan
• Transdisciplinarity: an approach to understanding Cultural Landscapes as expressed in the Stellenbosch Municipality Heritage Inventory and CMP. by Liana Jansen
• Re-aligning Heritage with the principles of Sustainability by Elwyn Harlech-Jones
• Towards Identifying and Understanding Conflicts arising from Multi-Disciplinary Nature of Heritage work by Jonathan Stone
• Dealing with challenges of Scale in Heritage Management through Technology by Nicholas Wiltshire

PANEL 4: PLACE IDENTITY, INCLUSIVITY AND BELONGING   

• Our Traditional Game? Klawerjas as Subaltern Heritage and Marginal Community in the Western Cape by Dr Hendrik Synders
• Colonial Architecture as Heritage: German Colonial Architecture in Post Colonial Windhoek by Vanessa Jane Ruhlig
• The Wonder of Florisbad - Important role I believe Heritage Sites play in bringing people together and fostering conversation that can bring about change in our land by Myra Gohdozi

PANEL 5: HERITAGE AND THE LAW

• Gees Judgement by Stephen Townsend
• Re-Connecting with local Heritage locally by Adelaide Combrink and Elize Mendelsohn
• NHRA Compulsory Repair Order by Chris Murphy
• City of Cape Town Survey by Bridget O’Donoghue

PANEL 6: RESEARCHING HERITAGE

• Houses used as 'curtains' Digaretene and the 1947 Royal visit in Bloemfontein
• Oral History an important measuring Heritage Tool by Khotso Pudumo
• Researching Heritage: South African Stories told through the lens of Tourism by Kagiso A. Maphalle (National Heritage Council of South Africa)
• Building a new Heritage Curriculum for a dissonant present by Naomi Roux
• Bridging the Gap: Establishing stronger links between the Academic and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Spheres by Nicholas Zachariou - University of Cape Town and Louisa Hutten - University of Cape Town
• Disparities between institutional and community requirements for ethical and responsible re- search practices among minority groups in southern Africa by Dr Kerry Jones