The Heritage Conceptualisations: A Multifaceted Approach
The project financed as part of CIVIS is the result of the collaboration among universities who are part of the consortium (University of Bucharest, Sapienza University of Rome, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Glasgow), privileged partner universities (Hassan II University of Casablanca – Morocco, University of Sfax – Tunisia, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar – Senegal) and other universities (University of Pau – France) and research institutes (National Institute of Heritage), with which the members of the institute have worked over the course of time.
The team that has created the project, coordinated by Simona Corlan-Ioan (director of the Institute of African Studies), consists of professors Alexandra Lițu and Alexandru Vasiliu (Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and History of Art, within the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest), Javier Salido Domínguez (Autonomous University of Madrid), Carlo Giovani Cereti (Sapienza University of Rome), and Jelmer Vos (University of Glasgow).
More information about the project can be accessed here.
The project was conducted in three stages:
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.
Held in Casablanca between June 8th and 12th 2022, the interdisciplinary meeting brought together professors from the University of Bucharest (Institute of African Studies, Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and History of Art within the Faculty of History, as well as the Faculty of Political Sciences), the University of Athens, the Sapienza University of Rome and the Hassan II University of Casablanca.
The debates were centred on complex topics correlated to the conceptualisation of identity, a dialectic process that entails a variety of aspects that call for transdisciplinary approaches, as well as around the role that material and immaterial patrimony plays in identitary constructions.
The third event 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, 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.
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.
The Interdisciplinary Institute of African Studies
The institution with an interdisciplinary vocation created in 2017 as part of the University of Bucharest brings together professors and researchers from several faculties and collaborates with other centres with a similar vocation from universities in the country, in Europe, in Africa and in the United States of America. The institute carries out scientific research activities, organizes conferences, colloquiums and other public scientific events in the field of African studies. It also gets involved in the master’s programmes and contributes to the integration in the research activities of doctoral students who are trained in related fields.
More details related to the institute can be accessed here.
