scope II conference - Sites & Subjects, narrating heritage

scope II, Sites and Subjects, narrating heritage, International Conference, Vienna (Austria), 28-29 September, 2006
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Cultural inheritance and its different stories will come into focus at the international conference scopeII, which takes place in Vienna on 28. - 29. September 2006.

To the topic "Sites and Subjects, narrating heritage" a number of prominent scientists and experts from all over the world will bring new impulses into the current debate of intangible cultural heritage.

Different cultures connect different stories with one cultural object. Thus stories (contexts) become as important as the objects themselves. The UNESCO has reacted to this theoretical turn of understanding culture and recently ratified the convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage.

After Scope I concerned itself with "Information vs Meaning" in 1999 "Sites and Subjects, narrating heritage" is the second event within the scope conferences, organized by uma information technology.

In four sessions participants and speakers will