94012 - Seminar World Cultural Heritage: the Role of Humanities

Academic Year 2022/2023

Learning outcomes

The seminar aims to focus on the UNESCO concept of world cultural heritage, in which both the tangible cultural heritage and the intangible cultural heritage are collected. The Cultural Heritage covers a broader spectrum involving aspects related to the themes of tradition, identity, cultural relations, but also the enhancement and transmission of heritage in a broad sense and cultural memory. A transversal path will be proposed, which will touch on keywords such as 'archive', 'memory', 'ethics', 'identity', 'inheritance', 'belonging', 'sustainability', putting them in contact with case studies and national and international experiences, in order to focus central themes and issues in the humanities world, offering useful perspectives also in a professionalizing perspective.

Course contents

Seminar: World Cultural Heritage: the Role of Humanities.

The seminar aims to focus on the UNESCO concept of world cultural heritage, in which both the tangible cultural heritage and the intangible cultural heritage are collected. The Cultural Heritage covers a broader spectrum involving aspects related to the themes of tradition, identity, cultural relations, but also the enhancement and transmission of heritage in a broad sense and cultural memory. A transversal path will be proposed, which will touch on keywords such as 'archive', 'memory', 'ethics', 'identity', 'inheritance', 'belonging', 'sustainability', putting them in contact with case studies and national and international experiences, in order to focus central themes and issues in the humanities world, offering useful perspectives also in a professionalizing perspective.

Readings/Bibliography

UNESCO, Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage,Adopted by the General Conference at its seventeenth session, Paris, 16 november 1972 : https://whc.unesco.org/archive/convention-en.pdf

Further bibliography will be added during the seminar

Teaching methods

In a coordinated context, the seminar will be offered through lessons and lectures given by different teachers

Lessons calendar:

Lunedì 3 aprile - 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Zironi - Il concetto di World Cultural Heritage

Martedì 4 aprile - 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Malnati - Il concetto di archeologia e la sua storia

Mercoledì 5 aprile - 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Zironi La memoria culturale

Mercoledì 12 aprile 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Malnati Il patrimonio archeologico visibile: musei, monumenti, parchi e il dibattito in corso sul binomio conservazione/valorizzazione

Lunedì 17 aprile 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Scatasta Chaucer e la cancel culture I

Martedì 18 aprile 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Scatasta Chaucer e la cancel culture II

Mercoledì 19 aprile 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Scrolavezza Heritage & Power in Japan: Nation branding e cultural heritage tourism

Lunedì 24 aprile 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Attività MOOC

Martedì 2 maggio 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Vecchi Patrimonio di influenza portoghese: concetti e casi I

Mercoledì 3 maggio 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Vecchi Patrimonio di influenza portoghese: concetti e casi II

Lunedì 8 maggio 15:30 – 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Zironi Il concetto di identità culturale

Martedì 9 maggio15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Malnati Il patrimonio invisibile, la tutela archeologica e l'archeologia preventiva

Mercoledì 10 maggio15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Scrolavezza The invention of heritage in Japan: la canonizzazione del washoku, ovvero la cucina ‘tradizionale’ giapponese

Lunedì 15 maggio 15:30 – 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Savoia - Ferretti Il percorso della conoscenza nella definizione dell’organismo strutturale e del livello di degrado in edifici storici

Martedì 16 maggio 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

Savoia - Ferretti Il percorso della conoscenza nella definizione dell’organismo strutturale e del livello di degrado in edifici storici

Mercoledì 17 maggio 15:30 - 17:00 LILEC – Aula VII

EVENTUALE RECUPERO

Assessment methods

Production of a written paper in agreement with one of the course teachers.

Teaching tools

Multimedia devices

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Zironi