CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. LAURA DEMETER
EDUCATION
2/2013-12/2017
PhD in Management and Development of Cultural Heritage, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Thesis Title: ‘Picking up the Pieces from the Communist Past: Transitional Heritage in post 1989 Germany and Romania’ (with distinction)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Since 05/2021: Postdoctoral Research, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT), Department Heritage Preservation, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Since 9/2020: Adjunct Professor, Master Program "Applied Critical Archaeology and Heritage”, Department of History and Cultures, at the University of Bologna, WS 2020/2021
4/2020-6/2020: Research Associate, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT), Department Heritage Preservation, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
9/2019-2/2020: Post-Doc. Fellow, Leibniz Science Campus Eastern Europe Global Area (EEGA), Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture in Eastern Europe (GWZO) Leipzig
8/2018-4/2020: Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Equal Opportunity Policies, Political Science Department, University of Bucharest
9/2017-1/2019: Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for East- and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg
H2020 EU Project Reflective Societies: ‘COURAGE. Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries’ [http://cultural-opposition.eu/#project] (2016-2019)
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 10/2020: European Commission, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF); CERV
since 2019: COST Action, Brussels: Network Project Evaluation
10-12/2019, 10-12/2017:Council of Europe, European Institute of the Cultural Routes, Luxembourg: Evaluation of the Cultural Route: ‘Fortified Towns in the Grand Region‘ and ‘ATRIUM’ Cultural Route (Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the XX Century on Europe’s Urban Memory)
11-12/2014: European Commission, EACEA, Brussels: Creative Europe-Culture Sub-Program for the Evaluation of European Cooperation Projects
RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICATION
8/2018-4/2020: Project: ‘Transitional Justice in Romania in Global Perspective’ [https://transnationalmemory.wordpress.com/] (2018-2020); Research Project supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS-UEFISCDI, Romania, 100.000 Euro
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPH
Demeter, Laura. Picking up the Pieces from the Communist Past: Transitional Heritage after 1989 in Germany and Romania, PhD Thesis at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, December 2017, online available [http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/258/]
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEW JOURNALS
Demeter, Laura. ‘Transnational Activism against Cultural Heritage Destruction as a Human Right Violation in Romania before and after 1989’,
Revue d’ Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Special Issue: ‘
Transnational Activism and the Globalisation of Anti-Communism after 1989’,
Vol.51, No.2-3, November 2020:121-150
Demeter, Laura. ‘Regime Change and Cultural Heritage Protection, a Matter of State Security’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol.25, Issue: Heritage, Revolution and the Enduring Politics of the Past, July 2018.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Demeter Laura: ‘Earthquake-damaged Towns and Villages under Authoritarian Regimes: Reconstruction and Preservation Practices in Panciu and Soveja (1940-1945), in: Tremor: Earth and Heritage in Crisis (Erschütterung. Erde und Erbe in der Krise), edited by Hönig Svenja und Spikic Marko, Conference Proceedings for the Working Group on Theory and Education in Heritage Conservation (AKTLD), ARTHISTORICUM, University Heidelberg September 2024:80-88, open access and print (ISBN: 978-3-95954-140-4 print)
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/1472/chapter/20950
Demeter, Laura. ‘Reevaluating the GDR’s national cultural heritage: The Collections of the Museum for German History in Berlin before and after 1989’, Museums - Places of Authenticity? RGZM – Tagungen,Verlag des Römisch- Germanischen Zentralmuseum, edited by D. Kimmel, S. Brüggerhoff, Mainz, Universitätsverlag Heidelberg: Propylaeum (ISBN. 978-3-88467-XXX) (accepted March 2019, due for publication December 2020)
Rainer Eckert, Laura Demeter, Uwe Sonnberg: ‘German Democratic Republic’, Cultural Opposition and its Heritage in Eastern Europe, The Handbook of COURAGE, edited by Balázs Apor, Peter Apor, and Sandor Horvath, 221-241, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest: Prime Rate Kft. 2018 (ISBN: 978-963-416-142-4)
Demeter, Laura. ‘ [http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3121/] ICOM International Conference: Museums and Politics, 9-14, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sept. 2014: 323-334.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Demeter, Laura. ‘ [http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2627/]’ Heritage 2014: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, 2014: 531-540. (ISBN 978-989-98013-6-3)
Demeter, Laura. ‘ [http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2628/] The Right to [World] Heritage: conference proceedings. IAWHP, 2014: 8-20. (ISBN 978-3-00-047536-8)
POLICY REPORTS
Demeter, Laura. ‘German Democratic Republic’, H2020 EU Project COURAGE Country Reports, Regensburg, November 2018 (http://cultural-opposition.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/D29-Country-Reports-157-188.pdf)
BOOK REVIEWS
Demeter, Laura. Review: ‘Building a Common Past, World Heritage in Russia under Transformation 1965-2000’, by Corinne Geering, V&R Unipress, 2018, Connections, Centre for Area Studies, University Leipzig, published online June 2020 [https://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-49727?utm_source=connections&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2020-6&utm_campaign=mail&fbclid=IwAR36YLswV8xSEeLlQ6MWXFnmd6OS5i-_xKeZF7nHq-sJn8XBSUcG0x8KHfc]
Demeter, Laura. Review: ‘Cuban Cultural Heritage. A rebel past for a revolutionary nation’, by Pablo Alonso González, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2018, 335pp., (hardcover), International Journal of Heritage Studies, ISSN: 1352-7258 (Print), March 2019
Demeter, Laura. Review: ‘From Antiquities to Heritage. Transformations of Cultural Memory’ (Time and the World. Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations), by Eriksen, Anne, New York: Berghahn Books, (hardcover), 2014. (ISBN 978-1-78238-298-0; VII, 179), published online Sept. 2016 [https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-20282]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
On-line Contributions for COURAGE Collections: Harald Hauswald, Jürgen Nagel, Roger Löwig, Künstlerzeitschriften aus der DDR, Inszenierungsdokumentation, Theater in der Wende, Lügenmuseum, Alltagost. Ein Digitaler Reiseführer in den Alltag der DDR
CONFERENCE, PANELS AND WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
- International Conference: ‘Transnational Dimensions of Dealing with the Past in ‘Third Wave’ Democracies. Southern Europe, Central Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union in Global Perspective’, University of Bucharest together with the Institut Universitaire de France and Imre Kertesz Kolleg (Jena), April 2019
Symposium
‘The preservation of the middle age sculptures in Worksop’, Worksop, 2011
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Dirty Cities and Modern Times. Cities between Hygienization Phantasies, Social Exclusion, and Roma Genocide during the 1930s and 1940s, XVI. Conference of European Association of Urban History EAUH: Cities at the Boundaries, Ostrava, September 2024
Mapping as Colonial Practice in Eastern Europe, 55th ASEEES Annual Convention: Decolonization, Philadelphia, Dec.2023
The Systematization of the Multi-ethnic Historic City of Kronstadt, a Critical Analysis, at the Cities in Transition. A Review of Historical Discourses, Planning Decisions and Conservation Strategies, TU Vienna, Chair of Heritage Conservation Nov.2023
Impact: Earth and Heritage in Crisis, Working Group on Theory and Education in Heritage Conservation (AKTLD), Zagreb, Sept.2023
Panciu (1940): A Model for the Planned Reconstruction of the Earthquake Damaged Romanian Small Cities, KDWT, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, July 2023
Modernization of the Interwar Romanian Cities and Contested Presence of the Orthodox Church, Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS [https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/2023-conference-program/], 29th International Conference of Europeanists, University of Iceland, June 2023
‘Contested World Orders. The Global Heritage Discourse and Practice in Times of Crises and Conflict’ [https://www.uni-bamberg.de/kdwt/arbeitsbereiche/denkmalpflege/conference-contested-world-orders/], KDWT, Otto-Friedrich-University, 2.-3.Dec. 2022.
Overcoming the Fascist Legacy and War Damages in Bucharest after the Second World’ War, 10th AISU Congress Torino Adaptive Cities through the Post-pandemic Lens, Politecnico di Torino, Sept.2022.
Heritage Restoration and Protection in Romania’s Challenging Political Context (1919-1948), International Conference Restoration and Promotion of Architectural Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Centuries, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich, July 2022.
Transnational Activism against Heritage Destruction. Human Rights and Heritage Protection Debates in Eastern Europe, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, DFG Research Training Group ‘Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings’, Lecture Series Heritage Politics & Current Affairs’, December 2021.
The Orthodox Church and Heritage Politics in Communist Romania and After 1989’, 53st Annual Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies Convention, New Orleans, December 2021 (online)
Cartographies of Catastrophes, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT), Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, November 2021 (hybrid)
ACHS 2020 Heritage Futures, Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference, London, August 2020
51st Annual Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies Convention, San Francisco, Nov. 2019
2019 ASEEES Summer Convention, University of Zagreb, June 2019
‘Transnational Dimensions of Dealing with the Past in ‘Third Wave’ Democracies. Southern Europe, Central Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union in Global Perspective’, University of Bucharest, Institut Universitaire de France, and Imre Kertesz Kolleg (Jena), Bucharest, April 2019
COURAGE Final Conference: ‘The Cultural Heritage of Dissent’, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for History Budapest, Nov. 2018
24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, ‘Reflective Futures’, Barcelona, Sept.2018
‘From IronCurtain to National Identity and European Heritage’, European Cultural Heritage Summit, ICOMOS Germany, Humboldt University Berlin, June 2018
‘Das kulturelle Erbe des Dissens in der DDR: eine gesamtdeutsche Aufgabe oder eine Fußnote der Geschichte?’, Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam, April 2018
Presentation of the Evaluation Report of the ATRIUM Cultural Route, Luxembourg, Febr.2018
49th Annual Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies Convention, Chicago, Nov. 2017
‘Communist Legacy and Public Discourse on the Communist Past in South-eastern Europe’, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, University of Tirana, Oct.2017
18th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Group Seminar: ‘Heritage and Revolution. First as a Tragedy, then as Farce?’, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University, May 2017
Presentation at Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner, Oct.2016
Presentation at Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest, July 2016
Summer School: ‘Museums and Controversial Collections. Politics and Policies of Heritage-Making in Post-colonial and Post-socialist Contexts’ (HeMaMuse), Istanbul, June-July 2016
‘What does Heritage Change?’ Association of Critical Heritage, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage of UQAM’s School of Management, Montreal, June 2016
Poster Presentation at the International Conference ‘Museums: Places of Authenticity’, Leibniz Research Group ‘Historical Authenticity’, Römisch-Germanisches Zentral Museum, Mainz, March 2016
‘Berlin-Discontinuities: Temporalities, Politics, Urbanity’, University of d’Artois, Research Centres Discontinuités and CREHS, Arras, Oct. 2015
‘The 3rd Heritage Forum of Central Europe: The City’, International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Sept. 2015
‘The Right to (World) Heritage’, International Association of World Heritage Professionals e.V., BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Oct. 2014
20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Istanbul Technical University, Sept. 2014
‘Museum and Politics’, ICOM Russia, ICOM Germany, ICOM USA, St. Petersburg, Sept.2014
4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, Guimaraes, July 2014
Poster Presentation at the World Heritage Studies Alumni Conference ‘World Heritage and Sustainable Development’, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, June 2011
‘Negotiating the Communist Past in Museums’, SSEES, University College London, London, 2011
SEMINARS
Seminar Teaching: ‘Cultural Policy and Comparative Heritage Legislation’ for the Program ‘Applied Critical Archaeology and Heritage’ (M.A) at the University of Bologna, WS 2020/2021
PhD Colloquium: ‘Connecting the Peripheries. Global Heritage during the Cold War’, at the Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture in Eastern Europe (GWZO) Leipzig, June 2020
Seminar COURAGE: GDR Collections, Leibniz Institute for East- and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Jan. 2019
Discussant Study Project M.A. ‘Heritage Conservation & Ideologies’, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, July 2017
Presentation at the Doctoral Seminar, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, May 2016
Presentation, Chair for Conservation, Gothenburg University, Prof. Ingrid M. Holenberg, March 2015
Presentation, Chair for Conservation, Technical University Berlin, Prof. Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Jan.2015
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Research Visiting National Archives Vienna, Austria July, Oct. 2024
Research Visiting National Archives Romania and Rep. of Moldova (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Research Visiting UN (Geneva), UNESCO (Paris), 2019
Research Visiting at Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest, 2019
Research Visiting UNESCO, ICOMOS Paris, 2018
Junior Visiting Fellow at Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner, 2016
Research Fellow at Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest, 2016
Research Visiting Scholar at Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), 2016
Research Visiting Scholar at the National History Museum and Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest, 2015
Research Visiting Scholar at Critical Heritage Studies Group, Gothenburg University, 2015
Research Visiting Scholar at Conservation Department, TU Berlin, 2014
Research Visiting Scholar at the German Historical Museum (DHM), Berlin, 2014
REFEREE SERVICE
International Journal for Heritage Studies; The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; Museum Management and Curatorship; REPOSITION: Journal of Reflective Positions in Art & Research; Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review; Hungarian Historical Review, ArcHistor: Storia dell’architettura e Restauro
