Benedetta Serapioni
Time at IEG: 2013–2016
Research projects:
Contested Heritage, Symbolic Recognition: the Old City of Jerusalem and the beginning of UNESCO World Heritage 1955-1981
The project "Contested Heritage, Symbolic Recognition: the Old City of Jerusalem and the beginning of UNESCO World Heritage 1955-1981" deals with the history of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls as World Heritage. It is part of the project "Knowledge of the World - Heritage of Mankind: The History of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage".
Knowledge of the World – Heritage of Mankind: The History of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage
The research project investigated the origins of the UNESCO World Heritage program for the first time on the basis of historical sources. Taking the World Heritage program governance institution as a prism, it investigated the shifting structures, institutions and actors, perceptions and agency. In five subprojects, it provided new insights into "transformations" of statehood, society and politics, culture and nature, time and space, past, present and future since the 1970s.