Conference on Intangible Heritage: SCOPE II
It took some time. But finally on 20 April 2006 the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage came into force. The international conference scopeII, entitled "Sites & Subjects. Narrating Heritage", which takes place in Vienna on 28 and 29 September 2006, will bring new impulses into the current debate over cultural heritage.
A long time UNESCO and public interest have dealt mainly with tangible heritage like objects and monuments. With the new convention that point of view changed radically. Intangible Heritage is coming into focus.
This has raised the question whether our traditional view of cultural sites and subjects has to change. Because different cultures (and subcultures) connect different stories with one cultural object. Thus the story (narration, context) become as important as the objects themselves.
In the conference "Sites & Subjects. Narrating Heritage" scientists will intervene in the current debate and ask for effects in the area of cultural politics. That "cultural heritage turn" is a new challange in creating future strategies by stakeholders, who are engaged in cultural memory.
scopeII particularly addresses stakeholders and institutions concerning humanities, cultural science, politics, knowledge management and grant programs, further university and research institutes, museums, collections, libraries and archives. Within the commercial range enterprises are addressed, which have to do in the broadest sense with tourism and exhibition concepts.
"Sites & Subjects. Narrating Heritage" will take place in Vienna on 28 and 29 September 2006. Location is the "Augustinertrakt" of the Austrian National Library (former Imperial Residence) in the heart of town, which is part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.
"After Information versus Meaning in 1999 Sites & Subjects is the second event within the SCOPE conferences, which could be initiated by our company", says Christian Doegl, CEO of uma information technology. scopeII is a project of "innovatives.oesterreich.at" .
In four sessions participants and speakers will interactively discuss cultural heritage, museum, cityscape, and their practical effects on each other.
Leader of the program committee and key note speaker of the conference is Harvard professor Homi K. Bhabha. Among many others the Austrian artist and art theoretician Peter Weibel will join the conference.
The website to the conference is on-line now. For further information and to subscribe to our monthly newsletter please go to: http://www.scope.at.
reference: Press release SCOPE Society to encourage interdisciplinary research; 25th of July 2006
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