The Centre for Heritage, with funding from the Eastern Academic Research Consortium (ARC) Event Fund is organising a conference on ‘Managing Change – Urban Heritage Between Conservation and Development’. This conference will take place at the University of Kent on 20 and 21 June 2016.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15 April 2015. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
- New approaches toward urban heritage conservation and management
- Linking ‘tangible’ and ‘intangible’ heritage in urban conservation
- Urban heritage, cultural identity and memory
- Cultural regeneration through urban heritage and gentrification process
- Urban heritage and working class identity/biography
- ‘Dissonant’ and ‘official’ urban heritage(s)
- Digital heritage and audio-visual technology, geographical info-systems and online curation.
This conference is open to postgraduate students, university researchers, heritage professionals, and cultural policy experts.
Potential participants may submit an abstract (max 500 words), with full contact details, no later than 15 April 2016 to urbanheritage2016@gmail.com
For more information: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/managing-change/