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February 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities – ARTIDIGH 2020
With the help of artificial intelligence-powered services and tools the heritage sector is working towards the next level of access to and (re)use of digitized collections. In recent years libraries, archives and museums have started to apply machine learning and advanced knowledge bases to contextually enrich digitized objects, audio-visual content and texts and to make these retrievable in novel ways. In doing so institutions aim to increase the impact of their collections among a growing and diversifying audience. This special…
Find out more »Call for papers: 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities - ARTIDIGH 2020 The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work. One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial…
Find out more »April 2020
HTHIC2020 Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
HTHIC2020 | Mendrisio | Switzerland | 6-8 April 2020 Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Call for Papers and Presentations www.heritagetourismhospitality.org Following successful conferences in Istanbul (Turkey), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Pori (Finland), USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) and consultancy Elgin & Co. (The Hague, Netherlands) are pleased to announce the 4th Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, International Conference (HTHIC2020), and cordially invite researchers, practitioners and policymakers to share their knowledge and experience. Conference Themes HTHIC focuses on the question: How can tourism…
Find out more »Call for papers: Conference theme: Fostering heritage communities
Heritage lives through the people dedicated to it. What role could such communities play in interpreting natural and cultural heritage? ‘Fostering heritage communities’ is the title of our next Interpret Europe Conference from 8 to 11 May 2020 in Haapsalu, Estonia. While many parks, monuments and museums might agree that a lively heritage community is invaluable for their site, they often feel challenged by debates with local people and by engaging with volunteers in interpretation, who all bring their own…
Find out more »EMYA2020 Conference and Awards Ceremony
The European Museum of the Year Award and the series of related awards are given out each year at the annual conference and award ceremony. The rigorous judging process involving visits to up to 50 museums culminates in an annual conference with the participation of 250 - 300 leading museum professionals, at which the candidates present their museums, the winners are announced, and the underlying values and innovative ideas in the European museum field are discussed, renewed and reinterpreted. We…
Find out more »EMYA2020 Conference and awards ceremony
We are delighted to announce that European Museum Forum (EMF) Annual Conference and European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) Ceremony 2020 will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales from 29 April to 2 May 2020. The host institution will be Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, and the Conference and Awards Ceremony will take place at National Museum Cardiff. Registration will open in October 2019. The Conference website will be updated with further details over the coming weeks: www.emya2020.com If you would like to receive an alert…
Find out more »May 2020
Adapt Northern Heritage Conference 2020
Climate change is threatening historic places across the world, especially in the world’s northern regions. The international Adapt Northern Heritage Conference 2020 will explore practices and research concerned with: · assessing the environmental impacts of climate change on, and associated risks to, historic places · planning and/or implementing adaptation measures to make historic places more resilient to, or manage their loss because of, climate change This peer-review conference offers themed parallel session over the course of two days with oral…
Find out more »Intangible heritage as a tourist destination
Op vrijdag 29 mei 2020 organiseren Kenniscentrum Immaterieel Erfgoed Nederland en Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed een internationale conferentie over ‘Immaterieel Erfgoed als toeristische bestemming’. De dag wordt georganiseerd in samenspraak met Erfgoed Gelderland en met toerisme-docenten en -onderzoekers van hogescholen en universiteiten in Nederland. Over hetzelfde onderwerp zal het tijdschrift Volkskunde een themanummer laten verschijnen. Sinds het 2003 UNESCO Verdrag inzake de bescherming van het immaterieel erfgoed, is er een toenemende aandacht voor het potentieel van immaterieel erfgoed toerisme. De kracht van…
Find out more »June 2020
Iconic Houses Conference
Welcome from Iconic Houses We’re excitedly putting the finishing touches to the programme for next year’s Iconic Houses Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands – which we’re thrilled to announce will include visits to circa 23 unique houses in The Netherlands, Belgium and France! The Iconic Houses Foundation is proud to present its 6th International Conference from 2-8 June 2020 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. The lectures on the two conference days (4 and 5 June) will be devoted to two themes: Thursday…
Find out more »July 2020
sKBL International Summer School
The first edition of the sKBL International Summer School will start in 2020. Many associate England, France and Germany with beautiful castles and stretched-out rural estates. Within Europe, the Netherlands is not as often associated with this, even though contains hundreds of special castles, historic country houses and rural estates. The sKBL International Summer School wants to change this by focusing on this versatile Dutch monumental heritage with knowledgable participants of various nationalities. The organisation also aspires to create an…
Find out more »August 2020
Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference
Organised by the UCL Institute of Archaeology at University College London in association with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Heritage Priority Area. For more information, please visite the conference’s website: https://achs2020london.com/ The conference’s theme—Futures—invites participants to explore a range of issues, including the future of critical heritage studies; newly emerging concepts, themes and methods for the study of heritage; the future of heritage management, governance and diplomacy; evolving and nascent forms of heritage, and how they might be…
Find out more »November 2020
Interpret Europe Conference: Fostering heritage communities
Heritage lives through the people dedicated to it. What role could such communities play in interpreting natural and cultural heritage? ‘Fostering heritage communities’ is the title of our next Interpret Europe Conference from 8 to 11 May 2020 in Haapsalu, Estonia. While many parks, monuments and museums might agree that a lively heritage community is invaluable for their site, they often feel challenged by debates with local people and by engaging with volunteers in interpretation, who all bring their own…
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