How can studies of heritage, environment, and justice help us collectively work towards more enduring futures? In this live podcast episode of Living Culture, Making Heritage, we brought together a panel of four experts in literary and cultural studies, law, and citizen science to explore these questions. We examine transnational heritages, tensions among national, local, and international heritage law, policy and legal considerations in heritage governance, and understandings of conservation in both environmental and heritage concerns. The interdisciplinary perspectives that unfold in this episode offer innovative approaches for tackling some of the most complex issues facing people and the planet today.

To learn more and access the show notes, be sure to visit Diggit Magazine: https://www.diggitmagazine.com/making-connections-among-heritage-environment-and-justice

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Panelists:

· Professor Marguérite Corporaal, Radboud University

· Dr. Wessel Ganzevoort, Tilburg University

· Professor Phillip Paiement, Tilburg University

· Dr. Sophie Starrenburg, Leiden University

Living Culture, Making Heritage is a podcast produced in collaboration with Diggit Magazine, University of Groningen, and Tilburg University.

Hosts: Kate Huber and Stacey Copeland

Audio Editor: Romane Rolland

Theme music by Karl Christenson

Podcast artwork by Clara Daniels

Contact us with listener questions at [email protected]

What does it mean to inherit harm? Artist and Askeaton Contemporary Arts director Michele Horrigan sits down with Kate Huber and Stacey Copeland to discuss life beside Aughinish Alumina—Europe's largest bauxite refinery, now Russian-owned—and the toxic legacy it has left across County Limerick. Through her ongoing project Stigma Damages, Horrigan has built a counter-archive of found objects, promotional ephemera, poetry, and video that bears witness against the industry's sanitized self-presentation. From government cover-ups and "sacrifice zones" to a grassroots Natural Heritage Group restoring a polluted river and preserving the oral histories of an aging community, this conversation asks: when what we inherit is harm, what does it mean to preserve it—and who gets to tell that story?

Learn more and access the transcript and our further reading list on Diggit Magazine.

In collaboration with Diggit Magazine, University of Groningen and Tilburg University. Hosted by Kate Huber and Stacey Copeland.

Audio Editor: Romane Rolland

Theme music by Karl Christenson

Podcast Artwork by Clara Daniels

Contact us with listener questions at [email protected]

How does digital heritage reproduce colonial hierarchies of power—or help resist them? Digital Humanities and archival scholar Dr. Kate Simpson (University of Glasgow) sits down with Kate Huber to unpack why heritage is always political. From repatriation to the Global North–South digital divide, they explore how infrastructures, platforms, and access shape what gets preserved, shared, and valued. Recorded during Simpson’s visit to Tilburg University, this conversation asks: who gets to be visible in the archive, and on whose terms?

Find credits, shownotes, and resources on Diggit Magazine.

Whose Heritage matters. What gets preserved and why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? Welcome to Living Culture, making heritage.

In collaboration with Digit Magazine, University of Groningen and Tilburg University. Hosted by Kate Huber and Stacey Copeland.

Theme music by Karl Christenson

Podcast Artwork by Clara Daniels

Contact us with listener questions at [email protected]