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An international Symposium on "Sharing Our Heritages: New
Challenges for Site Conservation and Protection, and for Tourism
Management" will be organized by UPV (Universidad Politécnica
de Valencia) in Valencia, Spain, from 7 to 10 February 2008.
The idea is to celebrate the end of the Sharing Our Heritages (SOH)
exchange programme (2005-2008) sponsored by the EU and the Australian
Government through a special event. Speakers from all 8 SOH universities
(namely Charles Darwin University (CDU), Curtin University of Technology
(CUT), Deakin University and University of Western Sydney (UWS)
in Australia, and the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation
at the Catholic University of Leuven (RLICC / KUL, Belgium), Brandenburg
Technical University (BTU, Cottbus, Germany), University College
Dublin (UCD, Ireland) and the Polytechnic University of Valencia
(UPV, Spain) in Europe) and their students will participate in this
event. Other heritage professionals, academics and students are
also invited to this event.
The interventions will address issues such as "World Heritage
in a time of globalization", "Public-private partnerships
for conservation", "Conflicting visions between donors
and conservationists". The Symposium will also count contributions
on "How to conciliate conflicting interests between international
conventions strategies and local communities' policies", "How
may sustainability match strategies for World Heritage sites commercialization",
"Preventive conservation as an innovative strategy for sustainability"
and "Heritage interpretation and its limits".
A publication will follow.
For more information about the programme: http://www.uws.edu.au/about/colleges_schools
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