HERITA Institute
Understanding what families pass on.
Families pass on stories, languages, gestures, photographs, objects, knowledge, and ways of inhabiting the world. Some of what is passed on endures across generations. Some of it changes, fragments, or disappears.
HERITA Institute studies family memory, generations, and the forms of transmission that connect the past to what comes after us.
The family is also an object of knowledge.
Understanding what families keep, what they forget, and what they pass on helps us better understand generations, migration, culture, and our relationship to memory.
Fields of Inquiry
Memory
What we keep, tell, and forget.
Families & Generations
What passes from one generation to the next.
Migration & Diasporas
What families carry, transform, and reinvent.
Heritage & Transmission
Objects, archives, know-how, and intangible legacies.
Technology & Memory
How digital tools are changing the way we preserve and pass things on.
Society & the Future
How the family and its forms of transmission are evolving.
Our Approach
Rigor
Distinguishing facts, sources, analysis, and interpretation.
Accessibility
Making knowledge accessible beyond academic circles.
Respect for Families
Research and editorial work confer no implicit right over the private memories entrusted to HERITA.
Private memories entrusted to HERITA never automatically become research or publication material for HERITA Institute.
The Institute and HERITA
HERITA Institute is an editorial and research initiative led by HERITA, dedicated to family memory, generations, and transmission.
Its editorial work is distinct from the commercial communication of HERITA's products.
What families pass on also shapes what future generations will be able to know.
HERITA Institute