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The Organizing Committee gladly invites you to share sessions with
other specialists and experts from worldwide in the 7th International
Congress on Cultural Heritage, to be held from March 17th to 21st,
2008, in Havana, with the purpose of exchanging experiences referred
to the wide framework of activities involved in the protection of
cultural heritage.
Main Topics:
Ethics and Ruling on the Defense and Protection of Cultural
Heritage: Legislation, rules, conventions, directives
and cultural policies; intellectual property, theoretical, methodological
and normative tools; awarding system (Living Memory Award; Communitarian
Culture Award; declaration of different categories of cultural heritage
–as local, municipal, provincial, national and of humanity,
etc); protection; research, results and applications in short, middle
and long terms; specialized formation, updating and optimizing legislations
on Cultural Heritage.
Economics, Planning and Finances, Inversions (towards and
for) the Spiritual Values and Cultural Heritage’s Goods:
Valuating and rating of cultural goods, marketing and commercializing
(reproduction and auction sales ), stamps and labels, illicit trade,
incidence on the national GDP; research, results and exploitation
in short, middle and long term; investments and finances; sustainable
development, management plans; commercial observatory and market
monitoring.
Integral management:
Specialized training; clean technologies (on conservation, restoration
and rehabilitation); risk and disaster diminishing, plans; preservation
and conservation (methods, practices, ethics and legal frameworks),
registration, inventory and scientific files; system for cultural
heritage documentation, depending on its typology (from its very
identification and characterization until its socialization and
divulgation/promotion); tourism and impact, research, results and
exploitation in short, middle and long term (alternatives to face
resources´ shortage; rationalization of treatment and creation
of products and materials to be used in the interventions on cultural
heritage); plans for integral management and sustainable development;
revaluating, projects for physical planning on re-use of architectonic
heritage without harming social welfare; evaluation of the integral
functioning of museums and collections from the view if the new
tendencies of museology and the treatment of cultural heritage;
micro-biological, entomological, environmental and deterioration
control; diagnosis for the conservation and preservation of the
values and the heritage’s cultural goods.
Products and Services:
Communications and updated technologies; cartography, culture, thematic
catalogues (per cultural institution, topic, geographical region,
period, style; ethnical, geographical and archeological antecedent;
fauna, flora, underwater, biosphere reserve, etc.); monographic
materials, atlas, reproduction, publications, worships and school
extra class activities (for children and youngsters), educational
programs (within the general, specialized, university and for the
elder persons systems); assessment and services for other countries;
research, results and exploitation in short, middle and long term;
impact on the social conduct in correspondence to values and cultural
goods.
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