Controversial Cultural Heritage?!

Through the lens of the ladder of heritage interpretation, this lecture examines a spectrum of approaches, progressing from mere consumption and entertainment to knowledge and truth-telling, learning and understanding, imagination and immersion, and finally, reparation and reconciliation. Yujie Zhu will employ metaphorical devices, such as university tutorials and ChatGPT, to highlight how heritage facilitates open dialogue and enables the assessment and questioning of the past from multiple pers - pectives. Without active public participation and critical reflection, the claims of heritage interpretation for public education remain shallow and lacking in substance, especially in the digital era.