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For three days, Thursday 3, Friday 4 and Saturday 5 April 2008,
the students of the professional SACIM Masters (Sciences, Arts,
Culture, Information and Multimedia) of the University of Versalles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines organize in the Palais de la découverte,
in association with UNESCO within the framework of the Forum
UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme, a symposium
on international scale on the topic of the world heritage.
This meeting represents the opportunity to deal in a transparent
way with the notion of world heritage as a commitment for the future.
In fact, through six round tables, the objective of these meetings
is to allow everyone to understand the notion of world heritage
and its problems. International figures, professionals and scholars
will come to present their experiences with the purpose of confronting
and sharing their reflections with the public.
This event, of free access and aimed at a large audience, will
approach many topics related to world heritage and will turn this
timeless topic into a current issue.
This symposium attempts to conjugate "tourism", "heritage",
"identities" and "territories", fundamental
exercise for those who want to strengthen in sustainable way holiday
and leisure practices in a territory included in the generic concept
of "tourism". It will allow the possibility for reflection
on the semantic content of the four associated concepts, its functional
interactions and the resulting systemic, the biophysics and historical
contexts of emergency of contemporary societies, on inherited collective
practices, their periodic reinterpretations and their present representations,
the relations supply/demand and quality/price according to the customers
identified and the importance of the positioning on any territory
with label or quality label (implicitly and explicitly including
quality letters and the accomplishment of a quality control), the
participation in networks already done or to be done make the tourist
activity perennial (what lays underneath and notices the periodic
programming of adjustment for his proper renovation).
The association of multidiscipline competences of geographers,
historians, economists, psychologists, sociologists and jurists
will allow to work on at least three approaches:
- The optimal territory in a framework of sustainable development
founded on tourism (space-territories and delocalized territories);
- The relation between territory, government and nature of identity
holders, environmental and social problems related to tourism;
- The analysis of the role of the participants and the dynamics
of proximity in the definition of sustainable tourist policies.
An approach to development will be examined within the framework
of the situation of the weakened and/or discriminated territories,
that is, many "natural" zones marked by human action,
faced to opportunities, risks or real aggressions, as well as urbanized
spaces, marked by a socioeconomic mutation.
In a more precise way, four "lands" particularly
will be dealt with:
- Urban territory, life frameworks and creators of social relation;
- Territories of conversion, socioeconomic and environmental,
particularly in the, industrialist and agricultural aspects but
also harbor;
- Territories "in construction" (or in expansion):
"pays", metropolitan areas;
- Boundary territories, forgotten yesterday or perhaps relegated
to the condition of marks in a context of 21st century State-Nations
that are today true laboratories, in the vanguard of European
construction.
Debates and discussions will focus on the following themes:
- Raising awareness of world heritage among young people;
- The digital revolution and the future of heritage;
- Conservation and the protection of World Heritage;
- Tourism and World Heritage - friends or enemies?
- Technical and industrial heritage - what are the stakes?
- Management of post-conflict sites - rebuilding a cultural identity.
Speakers will include:
- Chérif Khaznadar: UNESCO specialist and co-founder and
former director of the "Maison des Cultures du Monde".
He is also the co-founder and former organizer of the "Festival
of the Imagination".
- Emmanuel Desveaux: Directeur d'études at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Native American culture
specialist. Adjunct professor, University of Indiana, Bloomington.
He also holds the Marc Bloch Chair at Humboldt University in Berlin.
- Christian Manhart: UNESCO specialist on post-conflict World
Heritage conservation.
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