{"id":129,"date":"2021-10-05T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/?p=129"},"modified":"2022-11-18T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:20:24","slug":"robben-island-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/robben-island-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Robben Island &#8211; South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/robben-island-1980x1315.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa has been at the forefront of maritime archaeology on the African continent for over a decade. It holds a unique position at roughly the halfway point between Europe and the East, with some of the richest and most diverse maritime heritage in the world, including almost 3,000 shipwreck sites, land-based maritime sites, and a myriad of living heritage relating to maritime landscapes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The HeritageLab group has an extended track record of projects done in collaboration with the South African community, mainly through one of our key institutional partners Centre for International Heritage Studies. Such projects revolve around two main topics of Maritime Heritage (MUCH) and Mutual Shared Cultural Heritage:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_5\"><span class=\"color_17\"><strong>Heritage Day South Africa<\/strong>, 2008. In collaboration with: Rijksdienst voor Archaeologie, Cultuurlanschap en Monumenten (RACM).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_5\"><span class=\"color_17\"><strong>International Symposium &#8216;Our Shared Heritage&#8217;<\/strong>, 2009. In collaboration with:<\/span><span class=\"color_12\"><span class=\"color_12\"> South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), Iziko Museums of Cape Town, ICOM South Africa, ICOMOS South Africa, Department of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town Heritage Trust.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"color_17\"><strong>Maritime Archaeology Development Programme<\/strong>, 2008 &#8211; to date. In collaboration with: South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), Netherlands Consulate General, South African Department of Arts and Culture (DAC).&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_5\"><span class=\"color_17\"><strong>Robben Island Workshops<\/strong>, 2010. In collaboration with:<\/span><span class=\"color_12\"> South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA), Robben Island Museum, Africa World Heritage Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.0415625em; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Inter var', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;FieldLabs<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font_5\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"color_17\"><strong>Robben Island Fieldschool<\/strong>, 2010 &#8211; 2016. In collaboration with: SAHRA, Robben Island Museum, Africa World Heritage Fund (AWHF), Netherlands Embassy to South Africa, Leiden University, University of Cape Town, Western Australian Museum.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/span><span class=\"color_12\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contributors:<\/strong> Robert Parthesius, Jonathan Sharfman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage-activities.org\/south-africa\">CIE \u2013 Centre for International Heritage Studies<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has been at the forefront of maritime archaeology on the African continent for over a decade. It holds a unique position at roughly the halfway point between Europe and the East, with some of the richest and most diverse maritime heritage in the world, including almost 3,000 shipwreck sites, land-based maritime sites, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/robben-island-south-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robben Island &#8211; South Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.center\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}