Two days seminar addresses topic of heritage management where possible uses and misuses of heritage as economic resource will be challenged. Relations concerning heritage and (sustainable) development, revitalisation and cooperation with tourism sector will be addressed among others where presentations will foremost focus on selected heritage projects – case studies which represent ‘best practices’. International and local/regional participants are invited to offer their inputs by lectures and through discussion.

Panellists:

-Susan Cross (Director, TellTale, UK& ex-vice Chair of the UK Association of Heritage Interpretation) Developing heritage tourism in areas of conflict: interpretation, remembering and forgetting
-Prof. Sergio Lira (Associate Professor, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto & creator of the Hat Industry Museum in Portugal) Making of a Museum – the case of the Hat Industry Museum
-Annabelle Diot (Associate Director, Avesta International Consultancy, France & ex-consultant at the Lord Cultural Resources) Are private developers and companies the future of heritage?
-Brice Duthion (lecturer at Conservatoire national des arts et metiers – CNAM & member of scientific and professional council of Institut francais du tourisme, France) – Heritage and tourism in France
-Prof. Irena Lazar (Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia) Heritage education as the basis for development of heritage as economic resource
-Dr. Lidija Nikočević (Director, Ethnographic Museum of Istria & President of ICOM Croatia, Croatia) – Negotiating intangible culture: examples from the Ethnographic Museum of Istria
-Andreja Rihter (Director, the International Foundation-Forum of Slavic Cultures & ex-minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia)
-Goranka Horjan (Director of the Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia & member of the Executive Board of ICOM Paris) Resource not a burden
-Prof. Drago Roksandić (Professor, History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
-(moderator) Dr. Darko Babić., Sub-Department of Museology and Heritage Management, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)

International heritage seminar “Heritage as economic resource: revitalisation, tourism, development” is organized by University of Zagreb (Sub-department of Museology and Heritage Management & Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) within EU funded project ‘Jankovic Castle: historic site, generating sustainable development of the Ravni Kotari region’ and it is realised in assistance with: the International Foundation-Forum of Slavic Cultures, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and ICOM Croatia.

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