Plesch Chairs Session, Gave Paper for Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch organized and chaired a session for the 2021 conference from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Binghamton University), “Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe: Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now.” Her session, “Graffiti and Cultural Heritage,” considered graffiti (both medieval graffiti and later graffiti on medieval sites) as a cultural heritage. Plesch’s paper, “On the Patrimonialization of Graffiti,” discussed the issues at stake, retraced the history of scholarship on graffiti, and the subsequent recognition of their significance and need for preservation. Scholars from the UK and Italy presented projects that demonstrate the new awareness of graffiti as cultural heritage.