The CoHERE Project
CoHERE addresses an intensifying EU Crisis through a study of relations between identities and representations and performances of history.
The project was set up to investigate European heritages and identities, working with 11 other organisations across Europe. €2.5million in funding was provided by the EU Horizon 2020.
Co-ordinated by Professor Chris Whitehead, the CoHERE project aims to identify, understand and valorise European heritages.
It engages with their socio-political and cultural significance and their potential for developing communitarian identities.
This research group comprises:
- Simon McKerrell (CI)
- Chris Whitehead (PI)*
- Susanna Eckersley (CI)*
*both at Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University
The project explores how heritages can be used for division and isolation, or to find common ground and ‘encourage modern visions and uses of its past.’
The research covers a carefully selected range of European territories and realities comparatively and in depth.
It focuses on heritage practices in official and non-official spheres and engages with various cultural forms, from the living arts to museum displays, food culture, education, protest, commemorations and online/digital practice, among others.
CoHERE is funded through Horizon 2020, and responds to the Reflective Societies programme.