{"id":804,"date":"2014-11-13T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/heritage-conservation-symposium\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:45:00","slug":"herb-stovel-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/heritage-conservation-symposium\/herb-stovel-memorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Herb Stovel Memorial Lecture 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herb Stovel Memorial Lecture, April 26, 2025, 15:30<\/h2>\n

Library and Archives Canada <\/strong>(Alfred Pellan Room, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON)<\/p>\n

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

LOST AND FOUND: <\/strong><\/h2>\n

THREE PALACES IN ONE IN BERLIN’S CITY CENTRE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

with Dr. Gabi Dolff-Bonek\u00e4mper, Technical University of Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loss is a powerful incentive for heritage construction. Imminent loss <\/span>of a cherished or, at least, familiar and respected building or heritage site <\/span>mobilizes contemporary <\/span>citizens<\/span> to <\/span>articulate <\/span>protest and resistance<\/span>, loud or low or silent. <\/span>The very feeling of loss may be passed on to next <\/span>and over next <\/span>generations<\/span>.<\/span> Thus, the loss as such <\/span>may <\/span>acquire heritage quality and <\/span>social <\/span>value o<\/span>f<\/span> its own. <\/span>Political and social change may open ways <\/span>for <\/span>reconstruction<\/span>, <\/span>imagined<\/span> or <\/span>material<\/span>, or both. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Palace is gone, 2008, Gabi Dolff-Bonek\u00e4mper<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Dolff-Bonek\u00e4mper<\/span>\u00a0will discuss the destruction and loss of the Prussian baroque <\/span>p<\/span>alace, heavily bombed during WW2 and blown up in 1950; the construction <\/span>and loss <\/span>of the GDR-modernist Palace of the Republic, open<\/span>ed<\/span> in 1974, closed in 1991<\/span> because <\/span>of asbestos contagion,<\/span> demolished <\/span>2006-2008; and, the reconstruction of the Prussian palace<\/span> on the spot<\/span>, a concrete structure covered with baroque looking facades, 2013-2020. A recent exhibition \u201c<\/span>Gone and away. The Palace of the Republic is Present\u201d invited open discussions; people who worked in and for the Palace were invited to speak up.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Speaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dr. Gabi Dolff-<\/span>Bonek\u00e4mper<\/span>, <\/span>Professor of Monument Conservation and Urban Cultural Heritage at the TU Berlin from 2002-2021. From 1988 to 2002, monument<\/span>s<\/span> conservator in Berlin, active and controversial participation in debates on the evaluation and preservation of remnants of the Berlin Wall, controversial political monuments in urban space and post-war modernist buildings in East and West Berlin. 2001\/02 Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. From 2000-2011 member of the Expert Group on the Common European Cultural Heritage at the Council of Europe. Co-author of the Faro Convention of 2005. <\/span>Riksbanken<\/span> Jubil\u00e4umspreis<\/span> 2017 in G\u00f6teborg, Sweden<\/span>.<\/span> 2016-2021 Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group \u201cIdentity and Heritage\u201d. Main areas of work: Monument value and cultural heritage theory, historical policies, memory research, architecture and urban planning history of post-war modernism in Europe. Lectures in Paris, Rouen, Caen, Fribourg, Vilnius, Krakow Sofia, Sao Paulo. Freelance consultant since 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

* This event directly follows the 17th Annual Graduate Student Heritage Conservation Symposium ON THE EDGE OF COLLAPSE: CHANGING HERITAGE FOR A CLIMATE IN CRISIS. See more information here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Past lectures<\/h2>\n

2019 Jill Taylor, Saving the Lived Message<\/a><\/p>\n

2018 Francesca Russello Ammon, Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Post War Landscape<\/a><\/p>\n

2015 Andrew Herscher, Socialist Monuments, Delayed Monuments and a Commons to Come<\/a><\/p>\n

2014 Jorge Otero-Pailos, Transitional Objects, Why Heritage Shapes the Future.<\/a><\/p>\n

2012 Christina Cameron, Taking Stock, World Heritage at Forty<\/a><\/p>\n

About Herb Stovel<\/h2>\n

Arriving back in Ottawa following a distinguished national and international career, Herb Stovel was Associate Professor and coordinator of the Heritage Conservation programme in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University from 2004 to 2012.\u00a0His legacy at Carleton includes: the enthusiasm for and understanding of Canadian and international heritage ideas and conservation practices he instilled in dozens of students in his undergraduate and graduate courses; the development of a collection of key heritage conservation resources at the library; the comprehensive online resource list he developed as a study guide for heritage conservation; his essential support to building new streams in Conservation and Sustainability in the Schools of Architecture and Engineering; the creation of an annual graduate student-run Symposium on Heritage Conservation; the many community-based student projects he helped foster in Ottawa; and his general development of greater connections between heritage and conservation disciplines within the university and outside. He has also left the University the vast archives of his career’s work.<\/p>\n

The National Trust for Canada administers the Herb Stovel Scholarship Fund<\/strong><\/a> in his honour. The fund supports the research or conference attendance of one or more students or young professionals in heritage conservation each year. More information on the scholarship can be found here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n