CIE - Centre for International Heritage Activities
Centrum voor Internationale Erfgoedactiviteiten
CIE is an internationally orientated organization which strives to inspire and foster co-creative heritage activities and research across the globe. Our work is focused on creating platforms for discussing the multi-layered nature of heritage, and on practical and academic approaches towards community involvement in their heritage. Our Mission is to facilitate multidisciplinary cultural heritage projects, to encourage and develop skills and capacities, and to move beyond the Eurocentric origins of the heritage industry. We aim to serve as a catalyst for cultural heritage development worldwide.
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News and Events this Month
Now Streaming: The Golden Harvest by Alia Yunis — This Week Only –
We are proud to announce that The Golden Harvest, a powerful documentary by our Director of Program, Alia Yunis, is available to stream for one week only — from 8 to 15 May 2025.
The Golden Harvest is a 6,000-year-old love story that follows the filmmaker’s journey to uncover the deep and sometimes painful connection between the people of the Mediterranean and the olive tree — a symbol of resilience, identity, and shared heritage. Through a personal lens, Yunis explores this bond, including her own family’s ties to the olive groves of Palestine.
Don’t miss this moving tribute to one of the world’s most enduring cultural and agricultural legacies.
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Recent News and Events
Spring 2025
Climate Cartographies: Glitch Course in Dubai
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CIE Director of Programs Alia Yunis presentes at the Climate Cartographies: Glitch course organised by the AA Visiting School 25 April 2025–3 May 2025.
The course examines the intersection of climate change and heritage, while also considering innovative ways of representing these themes through the medium of sound. In the past, human settlements were primarily shaped by geographical terrains; today, however, they are predominantly defined by borders. A new conversation has arisen around the challenges posed by border regimes and restrictions on movement, especially in the face of environmental disasters. Valuable insights can be gained from places where border controls are temporarily lifted—areas that exist as anomalies within the modern nation-state system.
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Winter 2025
Book Launch: (RE) EMERGING PASTS
In February, CIE celebrated the release of Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry (Routledge 2025) with an online panel with the authors and editors in a four-year long CIE project. Written by an interdisciplinary group of emerging scholars and heritage professionals connected to these sites through their own heritage, this volume considers how a community can engage with a site’s globalized importance while retaining its own sense of history. Here is the full conversation.
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