Science Café on Critical Heritage

On September 4, UNESCO CHAIR on Heritage Interpretation and Education for Enhancing Integrated Heritage Approaches, University of Primorska, Slovenia and T4EU Transformation Lab on Critical Heritage, organize a Science Café on Critical Heritage.

This Transform4Europe event is dedicated to discussing and understanding the critical heritage and its perception. Neža Čebron Lipovec, professor at the University of Primorska (UP), Faculty of Humanities & UNESCO Chair, and Daniela Koleva, professor at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, are the guest speakers.

While Irena Lazar, professor at UP, Unesco Chair, and Zrinka Mileusnić, professor at UP, Faculty of Humanities & UNESCO Chair, will moderate the discussion.

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The transformations in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1960s–70s led to the formation of a new research field, heritage studies. Heritage studies conceptualise heritage in broader temporal boundaries and a network of agents involved in its formation. Within heritage studies, cultural heritage covers the distant and recent past, ordinary and everyday life, different social groups and their vision of heritage.

Yet, in the 2000s, heritage studies were debated. As a result, a field of critical heritage studies emerged. The key task was to analyse discursive practices of defining and using heritage primarily by state and international institutions. The scholars conceptualise heritage as a process, discourse and participatory cultural phenomenon. So, heritage is understood as a constant rethinking and redefinition of cultural values by different agents, which are also constantly changing.

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The T4EU Science Café will be organised within the UP Faculty of Humanities and the Unesco Chair International Summer School of Museology and Heritage. This event brings together students, young experts, researchers and stakeholders working in different heritage disciplines, heritage science, museums, NGO, etc. The event aims to open the debate about Critical Heritage and its understanding.

The Faculty and UNESCO Chair, with their long-lasting collaboration with various heritage institutions, are the starting point for discussing the critical heritage; this is how universities can be a driver of open academic discussion and accelerate the knowledge transfer from academia to the public.