Program
The 19th TICCIH World Congress ran for six full days, from Monday 25 August to Saturday 30 August 2025. The programme combined plenary keynotes, parallel scientific sessions, field excursions, early-career workshops, and the TICCIH General Assembly. More than 300 speakers from six continents presented.
Day-by-day overview
| Date | Focus | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 25 Aug | Opening ceremony, keynote, welcome reception | Kiruna Folkets Hus |
| Tue 26 Aug | Sustainability & green transition track; parallel sessions | Folkets Hus + LTU Kiruna |
| Wed 27 Aug | Colonialism, indigeneity & land track; Sámi heritage session | Folkets Hus + LTU Kiruna |
| Thu 28 Aug | Field day: LKAB mine visit & Malmberget excursion | LKAB visitor mine, Malmberget |
| Fri 29 Aug | Digital documentation & adaptive reuse tracks; workshops | Folkets Hus + LTU Kiruna |
| Sat 30 Aug | General Assembly, closing plenary, Kiruna-relocation walk | Kiruna Folkets Hus |
Keynote themes
Four plenary keynotes framed the congress. Speakers addressed industrial heritage and the energy transition, Sámi perspectives on extractive heritage, machine-readable archives and AI-assisted documentation, and the political economy of post-industrial reuse. Keynote abstracts are archived in the proceedings.
Parallel scientific tracks
Nine parallel scientific tracks ran across Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday:
- Mining and metallurgy heritage
- Energy heritage — from coal and oil to the green transition
- Textile, chemical, and agro-industrial heritage
- Transport infrastructure and maritime industry
- Colonialism, indigeneity, and extractive legacies
- Adaptive reuse, ruination, and post-industrial urbanism
- Museology, interpretation, and public history
- Digital documentation, 3D capture, and archives
- Education, early-career research, and community practice
Workshops & side events
Alongside the main tracks, the congress hosted the biennial early-career workshop, a hands-on session on 3D documentation led by LTU's digital humanities group, and a closed-door round-table on heritage and the green transition co-convened with Jernkontoret.
Field excursions
Thursday 28 August was dedicated to on-site fieldwork, with additional pre- and post-congress excursions across Scandinavia. See the full list on the excursions page.
Proceedings
Selected papers appear in a special issue of the TICCIH Bulletin, with extended versions in an open-access edited volume. The full proceedings archive is maintained at /proceedings/.