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*http://www.cultureofcities.com/intangible-heritage-scenes-of-urban-innovation/
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***5th Annual Conference of the International Association for the 
Study
of the Culture of Cities (IASCC)*

*Intangible Heritage: Scenes of Urban Innovation
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*Athens, Greece, **July 10-13, 2018*


The conference on Intangible Heritage: Scenes of Urban Innovation will
convene on July 10-13, 2018 at The National Technical University of
Athens (NTUA) in Athens, Greece and is co-sponsored by the Culture of
Cities Centre, Toronto. Hosted in collaboration with York University,
Carleton University, St. Jerome’s University and the University of
Waterloo, this is the fifth annual meeting in the series of conferences
and research initiatives on Scenes of Urban Innovation, organized by the
International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC).

Under conditions of traditional notions of intangible heritage both in
official and unofficial discourses, is it possible to mark how modern
and postmodern forms of cultural creation are signatures of the city,
integral to their specific identities and value?

This conference proposes to connect the many different manifestations of
the intangible heritage of the city to the question of how to ensure the
continuity of an identity or way of life, making the transmission of
culture the primary focus of the event. We ask how we might identify the
innovative character of the city through the significance of its
distinctive scenes and the persistence of an urban dynamic characterized
by creation, preservation and loss.

The 2003 Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage proposes five broad ‘domains’ in which intangible
cultural heritage is manifested:

    1) Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle
    of the intangible cultural heritage;
    2) Performing arts;
    3) Social practices;
    4) Rituals and festive events;
    5) Knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;
    6) Traditional craftsmanship.

Given such parameters, is it possible to relate to the processes of
cultural transmission in the city? What would such a translation, or
application require in the context of an urban framework? Are there
limits to the UNESCO framework and ways to better serve the phenomenon
of intangible heritage? Under what conditions might we conceive of
innovation as part of the relationship to the past, cultural
transmission and intangible heritage?

Rich and varied approaches of cultural analysis, social theory, and the
humanities, arts and social sciences and their contribution to an
interdisciplinary examination of the grounds of heritage in the
relationship of the city to time are encouraged. We invite scholars,
cultural practitioners, artists and theorists to identify and develop
intangible heritage and relate it as a phenomenon that is transmitted or
mediated in urban scenes.

Topics to be addressed might include:

  * How intangible heritage is multi-dimensional in ways that include,
    besides the arts, ethical and aesthetic elements essential to a
    national background.
  * The connection of innovative methodologies and emergent practices
    for engaging the relation of urban pasts to present and future.
  * Latest advances in the development of technological applications for
    representing the past in images of the built environment,
    narratives, archives, oral histories, and the visual representation
    of local topographies.
  * The place of ongoing histories of social injustice that become part
    of an intangible heritage, including hate speech.
  * Relations to traditions of any and all kind (from linguistic to
    aesthetic), including modification, rejection, preservation as in
    fundamentalist and enlightenment gestures and actions.
  * Narratives about the urban past produced in any present by
    descendants, survivors, witnesses, and informants.
  * Influences of collective memories and collisions in values about the
    meaning of place that fluctuate over time.
  * Ways different societies mark their inheritances whether through
    mechanistic repetition, vandalism, obfuscation, and innovative
    reinvention.
  * Use of heritage criteria for conferring identity of persons and
    groups through rituals for designating membership such as purity or
    impurity of bloodline, affiliation, citizenship, classification,
    genre, including influences from genetics and biology.
  * Policy discussion relating to cultural identity and memory, cultural
    regeneration and collective biographies.
  * Dissonant registers and controversies of historical past(s).

The normal presentation format will be a 20-minute talk as part of a
panel of three to four speakers followed by questions and discussion.
Proposals for other forms of participation (performances,
exhibitions/screenings) will also be considered as part of the
conference exhibition and events. If you would like to propose a
roundtable or panel, please submit a detailed application.

*Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Monday April 2nd, 2018 at midnight.**

*Please note that the selection committee will consider presenter
abstracts in advance of the April 2nd acceptance date. Please indicate
whether or not you require an early review in order to make travel
arrangements or applications for funding to your institution.

Schedule

Registration Open: March 1st, 2018 (Register online)

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: April 2nd, 2018

Acceptance Letters Sent: April 9th, 2018

Early Registration Closes: May 15th, 2018

Confirmed Presenters must register by May 15th, 2018
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http://www.cultureofcities.com/intangible-heritage-scenes-of-urban-innovation/




Leonidas Koutsoumpos_________________
Assistant Professor,School of Architecture
National Technical University of Athens
Patision 42, 10682, Athens, Greece

________https://ntua.academia.edu/LeonidasKoutsoumpos



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