Pisa chosen for the RICHES International Conference
Pisa’s Cathedral, aerial photo. By Rudy Pessina
Pisa has been chosen as seat for the International Conference Cultural Heritage: Recalibrating Relationships.
On occasion of the Italian presidency of the Council of the European Union, the international consortium RICHES (Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society) has chosen Pisa and the atmosphere of the Lungarni as seat for the important conference Cultural Heritage: Recalibrating Relationships.
The event, being held on 4-5 December at the Museum of Graphics of Palazzo Lanfranchi, is organised by RICHES Italian partner Promoter Srl with the support of: Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Tuscany Region, Municipality of Pisa, University of Pisa and Fondazione Sistema Toscana (“Tuscany System Foundation”).
RICHES is a research project funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme in the domain of Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities. Its main objective – enclosed in the project’s slogan «Recalibrating Relationships: bringing cultural heritage and people together in a changing Europe and finding new ways of engaging with heritage in a digital world» – is to reduce the distance between people and culture, recalibrating the relationship between heritage professionals and heritage users in order to maximise cultural creativity and ensure that the whole European community can benefit from the social and economic potential of Cultural Heritage.
Well-known experts, European and extra-European, will intervene in the conference, suggesting new ways of defining meaning and value of cultural heritage within our contemporary society and reflecting upon the importance of the engaging and participatory practises that cutting-edge cultural institutions are successfully adopting:
- Neil Forbes of Coventry University (UK), Historian – Assessing “value” in Cultural Heritage
- Xiao Chun Situ of Beijing Youth Daily (RC), Artist and Reporter – Digital Art and Digital Cultural Heritage in China
- Bill Thompson of BBC (UK), Media and Technology Expert – Broadcast archives as Cultural Heritage: can the BBC engage as well as it informs, educates and entertains?
- Nic Leonhardt of Munich University (DE), Theatre Research and Digital Humanities Expert – Tangibility of the Ephemeral: Digital Humanities and Theatrical Culture(s) – Local Values, Global Connections, Relational Histories
Representatives from the project’s consortium (Coventry University from UK, Coordinator, Promoter Srl from Italy, Hansestadt Rostock from Germany, Stichting Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde from The Netherlands, Waag Society from The Netherlands, the University of Exeter from UK, Fundació i2CAT from Spain, Syddansk Universitet from Denmark, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz from Germany, Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Kultur ve Turizm Bakanligi from Turkey) will intervene too, presenting the RICHES research’s initial outcomes and introducing further survey prospects.
The public will be moreover involved in a pleasant socio-cultural activity: a visit to the exhibition devoted to Italian artist and draftsman Tullio Pericoli, organised in the same venue as the conference, concluding with a welcome cocktail. Welcome coffee and catering lunch will be offered to all the attendees.
ATTENDANCE TO THE CONFERENCE IS FREE. DON’T FORGET TO REGISTER BY 2 DECEMBER 2014 AT THE LINK http://pisaconference2014.riches-project.eu/registration/
PARTICIPATE IN THE POSTER SESSION! The Call is open until 14 November 2014!
Two theme-sections are foreseen:
- Research section: posters of this section will draw on the Poster Session Research Topics (view this link) or
- Promotional section: posters of this section will be aimed to present institutions/activities/projects
You can participate with:
- a 70X100 poster or
- a 35X50 small poster
There is moreover the possibility to display other promotional material (such as leaflets, booklets or brochures) on a common stand.
The poster session will be open to the public during the two-day event and, for those willing to, posters will be made available for download in digital format on the conference’s website.
All the material – poster and other – shall be in English language.
For further info write to pierotti@promoter.it
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