Leila Javanmardi presents the volume "Modern Heritage in the MENA Region", published by Bauhaus Universitätsverlag. It is based on an international conference held by doctoral students at the Bauhaus-Universität in 2018 and contains twelve contributions on modernist architecture, heritage under capitalism, the appropriate conversion of modernist buildings, and the preservation and sustainability of historical monuments in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. A major benefit of the event was that younger researchers, for whom an exchange would never be possible due to the political situation in their countries, were able to come into direct contact with each other in Weimar.

The second book, published by Thelem-Verlag in Dresden, is the result of a teaching-research project in Tashkent funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The bilingual volume presented by Jens Jordan, "Baudenkmale in Taschkent. Contributions to a Monument Topography" presents - based on the successful German monument topographies - the actual and potential architectural monuments and ensembles in the old city of the capital of Uzbekistan. Precisely because the social transformation there is currently dealing with the building stock in a very radical way, the work carried out by young Uzbek scholars under the guidance of experienced German historians is already of great value as a source.

The first publication of the project "Stadtwende. Civic Engagement and Renewal of Historic Centres in the GDR and East Germany" will also be presented alongside various research projects from current heritage research ranging from musicology and architectural heritage to living in monuments.

Interested parties are cordially invited to attend.

Time and place of the event:

Wed, 19 Oct 2022, 4pm to 6pm, Bauhaus University Weimar, Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 8, Oberlichtsaal 213.

Contact: Dr. Jenny Price, heritage@uni-weimar.de Tel.: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 35 29

The featured books:

- Modern Heritage in the MENA Region, ed. by Leila Javanmardi, Maher Deeb, Dalia Inrahim, Hans-Rudolf Meier, Franziska Matthes, Ilmtal-Weinstraße 2022, ISBN 978-3-95773-250-7, 154 pages.

- Monuments in Tashkent. Beiträge zu einer Denkmaltopographie / Памятники архитектуры в Ташкенте, ed. by Jens Jordan, Hans-Rudolf Meier, Prof. Thomas Will, Dresden 2022, ISBN 978-3-95908-562-5, 244 pages.

- Stadtwende. Bürgerengagement und Altstadterneuerung in der DDR und Ostdeutschland, ed. by Jana Breßler, Harald Engler, Harald, Kegler, Constanze Kummer, Detlef Kurth, Jannik Noeske, Wiebke Reinert, Max Welch Guerra, Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-9628-9163-3, 320 pages.