During his previous visit to Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in October 2023, Ian Kuijt delivered a lecture to future historians titled “Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis: Comparative Reflections Within and Beyond Ukraine”. In this lecture, he shared his insights on how to preserve culture and maintain the memory of the past through multi-level engagement.
Archaeologist Ian Kuijt specializes in issues of memory and forgetting across various cultures and time periods. This time, he gave a lecture to Ukrainian students on ritual relics and practices in Neolithic communities of the Middle East. While memory can be deeply personal and tied to individual life stories on one level, it is also public and shared on another. Ritual and commemoration help create shared memories and experiences; thus, over generations, memory becomes depersonalized, collective, and takes on the characteristics of a particular community and era.
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