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Due to the receipt of a Georgia Humanities Council grant and requests
to include issues related to National Registries, the Department of
Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design has
expanded the theme of its 6th Savannah Symposium: World Heritage and
National Registers in Perspective. The symposium will explore the
architectural and spatial elements of cultural properties on the World
Heritage and National Register lists and topics related to heritage
designations as a factor in furthering the study of the built environment
globally and locally. Issues addressed will include:
- How are the criteria for designation made manifest in a building,
site or city?
- How have contemporary or past national or international politics
bolstered or interfered with a given site's application?
- How does National Register or World Heritage designation affect
a site's growth and change over time?
- What are the positive and negative consequences of World Heritage
or National Register designation or other forms of heritage designation
for the study and preservation of the built environment?
- How are the national rights of sovereign states balanced against
those of the international community in the context of World Heritage
sites, and how is this balance negotiated within the differing
member states? Likewise, how are the rights of individuals balanced
against those of the national community in the context of National
Registers, and how is this balance negotiated at the National,
state/provincial and local levels.
- What is the impact of global tourism on World Heritage?
The symposium will be highlighted by three keynote speakers: Zahi
Hawass, renowed Egyptologist and Secretary General of the Supreme
Council of Antiquities in Egypt; Ronald Lewcock, international conservator
and professor at the University of Queensland; and Harold Kalman,
prominent Canadian architectural historian and member of the Historic
Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. |
