The past years witnessed a noticeable interest of non-Western scholars contributing to modern history of the 19th and 20th centuries of their countries, which has been predominated by Western scholars, both at the time and the present. Non-Western scholars strive to document, review and re-interpret modern history with its physical remains, including those established by European countries during the 19th and 20th centuries. Nevertheless, these strives are often entangled by several obstacles that prevent additional and, in some cases, different cognitive dimensions to the existing Western-delineated historical narrative. This talk is not about the skills needed to conserve, protect, or transform aspects of “our” shared Heritage, but it is rather about shedding light on the entanglements that impede such cognitive notions and thus prevent uncomplicated perceptions from identifying with them.

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