Heritage and Festivals: Stories of Otherness
H18:00-19:00
Entrance: via Liguria 20
H18:00-19:00
Entrance: via Liguria 20
The event will be held in English at Istituto Svizzero from H18:00 to H19:00
Free entrance, register here.
Istituto Svizzero
Via Liguria 20, Roma
Ingresso gratuito
Heritage and Festivals: Stories of Otherness
The internal 2-day workshop Disentangling heritage and festivals: identities, expressions and folklorization seeks to understand the significance of the intersection between festivals and heritage ranging from dedicated heritage festivals towards the role of heritage in wider festival practice. What do festivals do to heritage and vice-versa what does heritage do to festivals? Themes such as spectacle, performance, folklorization and local identity politics will be explored from anthropological and other heritage and festival study perspectives.
Within this context, the public keynote Heritage and Festivals: Stories of Otherness by Pierluigi Musarò and Monica Sassatelli (University of Bologna) looks at “heritagization” and “festivalization” as framing processes characterizing the growing cultural significance of both festivals and heritage. The talk will discuss how both can be seen as expression of alterity, and it will examine how the idea of future is played out in the narratives of festivals and heritage. It will engage with key concepts through which the ‘future’ enters social analysis, asking how these can be used to interpret festivals and heritage by looking at concrete case studies: among others, the case study of IT.A.CÀ migranti e viaggiatori, which is the first and only European festival dedicated to responsible tourism.
The keynote is moderated by Florence Graezer Bideau and Peter Larsen.
A collaborative initiative organized by the EPFL Heritage, Anthropology and Technologies Research Group, University of Geneva Heritage Lab, and Istituto Svizzero.
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Biographies:
Pierluigi Musarò is full professor of Sociology, Culture and Communication at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy. He is Honorary Professor at Melbourne University, and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at the Institute for Public Knowledge-New York University (USA), and at Monash University (Australia). He is author of several books and papers in the field of media and migration, borders and human rights, performing arts and active citizenship. He is founding Director of IT.A.CÀ migranti e viaggiatori: Festival del Turismo Responsabile; founding member of Rete Nazionale per il contrasto ai discorsi e ai fenomeni d’odio.
Monica Sassatelli Associate professor of cultural sociology, Department of the arts, University of Bologna Formerly (till 2018) Senior lecturer, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, U. of London. Author of Becominc Europeans.Cultural identity and cultural policies , coeditor of Arts Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere. Her research and teaching concentrate on cultural events and institutions, with a focus on visual arts. She is also interested in methodological innovation, particularly the use of drawings and comics in social research and public engagement.
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