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Upholders of Culture Past and Present Lectures from an international seminar arranged by the Committee on Man, Technology and Society at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (105 s, år 2001) Pris: 150 kr

Lectures from an international seminar arranged by the Committee on Man, Technology and Society at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 2000 (105 s, Stockholm 2001)

No-one can deny the importance of recall and recollection. Every individual, every society - both past and present - need a collectively remembered past, a sense of identity and a common future. This ability to combine creativity with images of the past can be said to constitute the core of human culture.

Easy to say, but the question is: how does this process of cultural continuity between past, present and the future take place? And who carries it forward?

The answer probably depends on who gives it. To the historian it might seem reasonable to examine institutions of long-standing such as the Church. The antiquarian would probably stress the importance of museums, curators and others who have a professional mission to identify and preserve cultural heritage. A person more rooted in the present might say that today it is the Internet, the media itself, that is the true upholder of culture by virtue of the possibilities it offers of preserving, distributing and circulating, not just news items, but also innumerable examples of recall and recollection. And what of other media? Is gender or ethnic origin an issue here? Obviously yes. But how does the fact of gender or ethnic origin (and class) influence upholders of culture?

Upholders of Culture Past and Present is based on a series of lectures given at a seminar arranged by the Committee on Man, Technology and Society at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), at Forsmark Manor House in Sweden in 2000.

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