Jasper Chalcraft works on “difficult heritage” as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute, and as a member of the EU-funded Heritage Contact Zone project. His work focuses on finding practical ways to deal with “difficult heritage” that is often the cause of conflict. He also co-coordinates a project working with diaspora African artists and musicians in Sao Paulo called Being/ Becoming African in Brazil: music and migrating heritages.