Living Cultural Heritage: Safeguarding, Practices, Information Technologies LCH2021

11 - 12 September 2021, ONLINE

LCH-2021 at Eurofolk Academy

          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.

The Topics (in alphabetical order) are in Range of the Following Research Areas, without Limitation:

• Digital Humanities
• Ethnology and folklore
• History, archeology, archivistics
• Art Studies
• Computer Sciences
• Intengible Cultural Heritage /ICH/ and Creative Industries: access, security and legal protection
• Marketing in the field of culture: cultural tourism, tourist routes
• Museology of 21 c.
• Providing access to the LCH for people with disabilities
• Serious games in the field of LCH
• Theology

Period of conduction: September 10-12th 2021
Location: Online, Zoom
Opening: September 10 th, 2021
Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian
Registration with reports and messages until: August 20th , 2021

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 30th, 2021
Program of the conference will be announced until: September 06th 2021

Program

The in-person sessions, visual demonstrations and the training workshop have been postponed due to the complicated epidemiological situation and the many requests of participants until the restrictions are lifted, and the paid event fees and trainings for 2021 will apply to the next editions of the conference.

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

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:

• Galina Bogdanova, Assoc. Prof. Dr – Chair - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Vanya Mateeva, Assoc. Prof. Dr. – Chair - Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM) at BAS – Bulgaria;
• Nikolay Kravtsov - Prof., Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture and Art – Russia;
• Dmitriy Ryitov, Prof. Department of Pedagogical Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture and Art – Russia;
• Elena Shatko, Assoc. Prof. Dr - Belarusian Pedagogical Institute, Minsk, Belarus.

Organizing commIttee:

• Kaloyan Nikolov – Chair - Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFEM) at BAS – Bulgaria, European Association of Folklore Festivals - EAFF;
• Veselin Vavrek - Secretary - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Mirena Todorova - Ekmekci - nstitute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFEM) at BAS – Bulgaria
• Nikolay Noev, Assistant Prof. - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Kalina Sotirova - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
• Mariana Nutsova – EuroFolk Academy.