Introduction to Heritage Studies

The course provides an overview of the fundamental epistemological frameworks and concepts in the field of heritage studies, with an emphasis on their interdisciplinary character, which crosses and connects various fields of humanities and social sciences.
• Students will get aquinted with the development of this new field, which is in the phase of transformation into an independent science. So they will get to know concepts from anthropology, philosophy, and human geography, which provided the basis for their studies.
• Based on practical examples from various internationally selected cases, they will get acquainted with the basic concepts and definitions from the field (monument, heritage, heritageisation, heritage discourses, heritage dissonance; invented traditions; imagined communities; authenticity; collective memory, lieux de memoire/sites of memory…). Special emphasis will be devoted to the cultural-historical development of the concepts.

Prerequisites:
Within T4EU The course is conceived for students that are already engaged in heritage topics, in related disciplines (heritage studies, anthropology, art history, archaeology, geography, museology, conservation).
Lecturer: Neža Čebron Lipovec

ECTS: 3

Basic Course (BC): knowledge in area of expertise

TIME: TBC