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| Title: | Fifteenth edition of Interviews on heritage: Heritages of Europe, European heritage? | |
| Dates: | 19 - 21 March 2007 | |
| Venue: | Paris, France | |
| Organizers: | Ministère de la culture et de la communication | |
| Contact: | edp2007@jourj.org | |
| More info: | http://www.culture.gouv.fr/edp2007/ (in french) | |
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| Summary: | Each time has its own interpretation of heritage. It projects on
it, as on a screen, its values, its dreams and its fears. For two
centuries, heritage, in its historical monument version, has been
associated to the nation, of which it was one of the signs of legitimation
and recognition. Since the moment of the European construction, we
witness a change of scale, if not of sense.
The celebration in 2007 of the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which marked the launching of the European adventure, and the creation of a seal of the European heritage invite to wonder on this notion and in its different meanings and the unit of its inspiration. In what sense does the political unification of Europe influence on the perception of heritage of its peoples? And inversely, in what sense does heritage concurs to the coming of a European awareness fed on the best of its inheritance and decidedly oriented towards the future? European heritage is not simply the addition of national heritages. It is much more than a collection of aesthetic forms, than a corpus of conservative rules, much than a sum of excellence lists. Its singularity is due to a form rather than a way to articulate, as in no other part, memory and creation, unit and diversity, identity and hibridation, concentration of history and ideal projection. These Interviews will call upon a long list of thinkers and heritage professionals to speak, as well as public decision makers and private and agents, French and foreign. It is expected that these discussions establish points of reference, which open new ways, that suggest initiatives, so that in the maelström of globalization, heritage continues being, for a Europe under construction and for its citizens, a point of anchorage and an emblem.
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05.- Cultural Heritage |
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