ACHS – CEE Conference

David C Harvey is an associate professor in critical heritage studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and an honorary professor of historical and cultural geography at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). His work has focussed on the geographies of heritage, and he has contributed to some key heritage debates, including processual understandings of heritage, extending the temporal depth of heritage, the outlining of heritage-landscape and heritage-climate change relations and the opening up of hidden memories through oral history. His recent works include The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming 1939-1985 (with Paul Brassley et al., 2021), which won the Joan Thirsk Prize (2022), Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures (edited with Tom Carter et al., 2020), Commemorative Spaces of the First World War: Historical Geography at the Centenary (edited with James Wallis, 2018), and The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (edited with Jim Perry, 2015). He is on the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Heritage Studies, and co-edits a Berghahn Book Series Exploration in Heritage Studies. In his spare time, David cycles a lot, plays a bit of football and struggles to learn Danish.

Dr. Alessandro Testa is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, where between 2020 and 2022 he led the ERC CZ project “The Re-Enchantment of Central-Eastern Europe”. Prior to this, he was a Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct at the University of Vienna (2015-2019). His recent works include a book entitled Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-Enchanting Rituals in Europe (2023), articles Re-thinking the Concept of Re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe (Religio 2023), The Anthropology of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Brief Genealogy from the Desk (1970–2020) and Empirical Observations from the Field (2010–2020) (Traditiones 2021) and other works.