Summer school Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities: Current Research and Dissemination Methodologies, the third event within the CIVIS – The Heritage Conceptualisations: A Multifaceted Approach project, was organised by the Institute of African Studies within the University of Bucharest between June 28th and July 2nd 2022.
The classes were taught by professors from CIVIS universities that were partners in the project (University of Bucharest, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Glasgow), as well as by researchers at the National Institute of Heritage, who were joined by colleagues from the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism and from the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant.
The interdisciplinary summer school hosted by the University of Bucharest was the opportunity for experts to meet, and exchange ideas and expertise on a wide range of issues to do with patrimony, which are subjects of interest both in the European and the African academic space, at a time when preserving the cultural heritage has become a priority more than ever before.
The project will continue in the coming years through exchanges involving professors and students, through the preparation and teaching of classes in partner universities on topics of joint interest and the publication of a volume that will provide an account of the stage of research reached by the project members.
More details on the topics of discussion and the conduct of the summer school Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities: Current Research and Dissemination Methodologies are available in the full program of the event, here.
What lent a special touch to this scientific event was the participation, at the invitation of the University of Bucharest, of professors from the Hassan II University of Casablanca – Morocco and from the Sfax University of Tunisia – privileged partners within CIVIS, as well as from the Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Cocody University in Abidjan – Ivory Coast.
Participants attending the speeches and involved in the discussions (in hybrid format) held in English and French, were undergraduates, master’s degree students and attendees of PhD programmes from partner universities.
Tradition, heritage and the handing over of patrimony were the subjects that the classes and seminars centred around, and the topics broached targeted both the material, the immaterial and the virtual patrimony.
The atmosphere and the usefulness of this summer school are reproduced in some testimonials of the participants that can be accessed here.
