The first event organised as part of the project The Heritage Conceptualisations: A Multifaceted Approach was the colloquium Meta-Theories, Public Policies, Legal and Economic Frameworks in the Area of Heritage (April 7th 2022).
Despite being held online due to safety conditions related to the Covid pandemic, the colloquium was a chance for all professors and researchers who initiated the project to meet. They were joined by students of the master’s and PhD programmes from the three CIVIS member universities that are partners in the project. Speaking at the colloquium were colleagues from the University of Bucharest and from the National Museum of History and Archaeology in Constanța, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Pau, Sfax University in Tunisia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, the School of Architecture in Rabat – Morocco, the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar and from Université Félix Hophuët-Boigny of Abidjan – Ivory Coast.
The presentations made in this colloquium shall be published in a volume that will form the basis for a future interdisciplinary course, as part of the master’s programme on the History of Art and Philosophy of Culture within the Faculty of History.
The full program of the event can be accessed here.
The topics were spawned by the current paradigm shifts that are occurring in many fields (from technology to culture), thus imposing new meta-theoretical approaches. The conceptualisations, definitions, interpretations, methodologies and the practical factors, applicable to the patrimony field, have gone and of course are still going through a process of re-evaluation, reinterpretation, reformulation and reconfiguration, leading to a widening of this new study field. This expansion of patrimony categories and typologies has constituted the analytical and operating base that the colloquium was built around. As well as the methodological approaches, a whole set of contemporary problems have been targeted – ones to do with the management of patrimony in relation to economic and political situations, to the legislation in force and implicitly to public policies. Special attention has been given to the analysis of patrimony located in conflict areas and of endangered patrimony. On this topic, the discussion also concerned formulas defined and used by UNESCO to classify, declassify and reclassify patrimony in response to various contexts.
