Una Europa | Cultural Heritage at the Urban and Metropolitan Peripheries Conference

Una Europa is organising an International Conference on Cultural Heritage at Urban and Metropolitan Peripheries.


June 01, 2023

About the conference

Cultural Heritage at the Urban and Metropolitan Peripheries aims to be a forum for debate on the current state of knowledge in the field of cultural heritage of urban peripheries.

The conference welcomes proposals on the following cross-cutting issues:

  • Relationships between peripheral heritage and metropolisation.
  • Interpretation of heritage in the urban peripheries.
  • Local communities’ involvement in the management, protection and enhancement of the heritage of urban peripheries.
  • Decolonisation of cultural heritage of the urban and metropolitan peripheries.
  • Heritage of ethnic communities in the urban and metropolitan peripheries.
  • Industrial heritage, social housing, and their preservation.
  • Digital collections related to urban and metropolitan peripheries.
  • Tourism and cultural heritage in the urban peripheries: new attractions? new tourists? new discourses?

Provisional programme

  • Sunday 4 June 2023: Pre-conference excursion in the Paris metropolis
  • Monday 5 June 2023

Morning: Welcome session and plenary session
Afternoon: Parallel sessions

  • Tuesday 6 June 2023

Morning: Parallel sessions
Afternoon: Plenary (round table) and closing event

Event: 05-06 June 2023 Paris, France

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