Living Cultural Heritage - Safeguarding, Practices, Information Technologies LCH-2019

26 - 29 August 2019, Nessebar, Bulgaria

LCH-2019 at Eurofolk Academy

          Conference will be held in the frames of the IX World Championship of Folklore "World Folk 2019" organized by the European Association of Folklore Festivals - EAFF.

          The forum is aimed to the theme for preservation, presentation and digitization of the cultural heritage and has interdisciplinary nature. The leading purpose is the broad-spectrum interpretation of the concept of living cultural heritage. On the one hand - as a phenomenon of the living cultural practices and in general - as a scientifically systematized digital content of various tangible and intangible values from museums, archives, community centers etc. Sharing the Bulgarian and foreign experience in specialized and interdisciplinary scientific research, the exchange of modern information technology solutions as well, will be useful in achieving meaningful and technologically renewed living knowledge about the cultural heritage.

Period of conduction: August 26th - 29th, 2019
Location: Nessebar, Bulgaria
Opening: August 26th, 2019
Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian
Registration with reports and messages until: August 2nd, 2019

Applications (title and brief summary) can be submitted online at the official website of the Conference - Application form.

Confirmation for acceptance of the reports until: August 2nd, 2019
Program of the conference will be announced until: August 15th, 2019

Program           Program in English

The costs of transport and accommodation are at the expense of the participants.

Participation fee:
50 Euro - The fee is to be paid after received approval for participation

Accommodation of the participants, guests and accompanying people:
Hotel 3*** - single room - 3 HB (3 nights on half board basis) - 108 Euro per person
Hotel 3*** - double room - 3 HB (3 nights on half board basis) - 78 Euro per person
Hotel 3*** - triple and quadruple room - 3 HB (3 nights on half board basis) - 66 Euro per person
Accommodation is in Holiday Complex Sunny Beach - Ministerial Council on half board basis (overnight, breakfast and lunch included).

Accompanying events:

• Master Class "Kravtsov"; https://eaff.eu/en/festivals/228-master-class-kravtsov-accordion
• Exhibition of the Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences "Mihail Arnaudov - life, dedicated to Bulgaria and the science";
• Exhibition "Folklore - shared knowledge. Past, present and future", organized by IMI and IEFEM at BAS;
• Round Table: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage;
• Round Table: "Ways to Promote Good Practices for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage".

Organizers:

• Institute of Mathematics and Informatics to Bulgarian Academy of Science
• Saint Peterburg's State Institute of Culture, Russia
• Institute of ethnology and folklore sciences with Ethnographic Museum to Bulgarian Academy of Science
• Euro Folk Academy
• European Association of Folklore Festivals - EAFF

Program commIttee:

• Vanya Mateeva, Assoc. Prof. Dr. – Chair - Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Mu-seum (IEFEM) at BAS - Sofia;
• Galina Bogdanova, Assoc. Prof. Dr – Chair - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Dmitriy Ryitov, Prof. Department of Pedagogical Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture and Art – Russia;
• Ibrahim Yuldashev, Prof., Doctor of Philosophy - State Institute of Art – Uzbekistan;
• Elena Shatko, Assoc. Prof. Dr - Belarusian Pedagogical Institute, Minsk, Belarus.

Organizing commIttee:

• Kaloyan Nikolov – Chair - Euro Folk Academy, European Association of Folklore Festivals;
• Nikolay Noev, Assistant Prof. - Secretary - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Nikolay Kravtsov - Prof., Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture and Art – Russia;
• Kalina Sotirova - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Veselin Vavrek - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Mariana Nutsova – EuroFolk Academy.