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Dr. Marilena Vecco

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Dr. Marilena Vecco is Assistant Professor of Cultural Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In the Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture, she lectures in the MA Cultural Economics & Cultural Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on cultural entrepreneurship, management with a special focus on cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) and art markets.
She holds a PhD in Economic Sciences at University Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, a PhD in Economics of Institutions and Creativity at University of Turin (I) and a MBA executive in International Arts Management from the University of Salzburg Business School in collaboration with Columbia College, Chicago. Between 1999 and 2010 she was head of research of the International Center for Arts Economics (ICARE) and Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Cultural Economics and Art markets at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice.
Marilena has over 14 years of academic and professional experience as a researcher, lecturer and consultant. She has researched and consulted for several public and private organisations, including OECD, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development, World Bank and The European Commission.
Dr. Simona Pinton is a senior researcher fellow in international law, international criminal law and human rights at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy. She has been research associate at the UW School of Law and visiting professor in international criminal Law at Wake Forest University, School of Law. She holds a Ph.D. in international law from the University of Padua and a Master of Laws in international law and peace-building from the Boat Hall School of Law, University of Berkeley, California.  Dr. Pinton served on the prosecutorial team for the UN Tribunal for the Genocide in Rwanda, Arusha, and practiced law with the Grimaldi & Clifford Chance law firm in Padua. She is also an expert in electoral observation, participating in missions formerly with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania), and currently with the European Union (Tanzania). 

Lauso Zagato is Professor of International Law, European Union Law, Human Rights Law at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Since academic year 2004-2005 lecturer in International and European Law of Cultural Heritage at the Advanced Degree (Course) on Economia e Gestione delle arti; since 2007, co-ordinator of the Legal Unit at the Double Master Degree on “Management dei beni e delle attività culturali” (MABAC), offered by Ca’ Foscari University and ESCP Europe.
In the second half of the 90s prof. Zagato worked as Short Term Expert in the German Technical Assistance (GTZ) Legal Reform Project in Albania (Anti-dumping and Anti-subsides law, European Competition Law). In the years 1999-2001 he also worked as Short Term expert in the EU Phare-Project on Support to the Romanian National Institute of Magistrates in Bucharest (Competition and Intellectual Property Law) and in 2003 worked as Short Term Expert in the EU Cards-Project on Support to the Prime Minister Office in Kosovo (Intellectual Property Law). Starting from 2003 he’s been working namely on human rights (with a privileged attention to cultural rights and identities) and on the legal issues of the safeguarding and protection of the cultural property and heritage in international law, both at universal and regional level.
Lauso has been member of the Board of CIRDU (Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca sui diritti umani), and since 2012 is Director of the Center of Studies on Human Rights (CESTUDIR) at Ca’ Foscari University and active in the project aiming at the creation of the network of the Italian associations and groups which operate in the field of the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. In 2014 he founded and coordinates the Book Series “Sapere l’Europa, Sapere d’Europa” of the Edizioni Ca’ Foscari-Digital Publishing.
He has been involved in several European and international projects and organised numerous international conferences (“The Intangible Cultural Heritage – A World Stage for the Venetian Traditions”, held on 22-23 October 2009, “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourist Activities: The Case of Venice”, held on 22-23 November 2013, “The Cultures of Europe, the Europe of Culture”, 2011 in collaboration with M. Vecco, “Il patrimonio culturale. Scenari 2015”, 2015).
Among his publications: Le culture dell’Europa, l’Europa della cultura, 2012, “Citizens of Europe. Culture e diritti” 2015.

Sessions in which Dr. Marilena Vecco participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Dr. Marilena Vecco attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Public event
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What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...

18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
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Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including nationalism.  In these processes, through a variety of devices (museums, scholarly research, consumer reproduction, etc.), dualistic classifications articulate a powerful hierarchy of value and significance.  In particular, the tangible-intangible pair, given legitimacy by such international bodies as UNESCO, reproduces a selective ordering of cul...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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7:30 - 15:30 | 8 hours
Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritageReligious HeritageUrban HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
Changes in heritageNew manifestations of heritageNotions of heritage

__ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to registered participants. Bus pick-up is scheduled at 7:30 AM in front of the DS Building (320 Saint Catherine East street, on the UQAM site and will return for 7:00 PM at the same location. Please wear your badge. ___ Veuillez noter que cet atelier est à l'extérieur de Montréal. Les délégués qui se seront enregistrés seront transporté...

9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the PoliciesTourism
Heritage changes the policiesHeritage policiesGlobal vs local

The Manifesto of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies (2011) argues for a more critical approach to heritage: heritage from below, writ large, in service of society. The integration of heritage and museum studies with those of community, development, memory, planning, public history and tourism is urged in the Manifesto, as is opening up to other disciplinary traditions such as anthropology, political science and sociology, for dialogue and collaboration on external research and poli...

9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)Urban HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage as an agent of changeEpistemologiesOntologiesTeaching

Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, population growth, climate change are only some of the major global challenges that a 21st century city needs to respond to. The current challenging global environment has led to the development of new approaches to the concept of "sustainable city" a city that caters for current and future generation. For instance, the idea of smart city (a city th...

9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the Policies
Heritage changes the policiesHeritage policiesGlobal vs local

This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely acknowledged that heritage—the selective valuation and use of the past in the present—can be an oppressive. Heritage work in Africa has even been characterized as "an instrument for dictatorship" (Peterson et al. 2015:28) because it is often implicated in upholding particular narratives and political orders, imposing a singular vision onto a heterog...

9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritageIntangible HeritageTourism
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This session is committed to extending previous research collaborations on food and culinary systems as objects of political mobilization – ICA 52, 2006 (Seville); Mexico DF, 2009; ICA 54, 2012 (Vienna); Uqam, 2014 (Montreal). On this occasion, we will deepen and develop ongoing debates about the growing place of food in the cultural politics of heritage and its impacts on society, about which there is still scarce documentation.  How are food and culinary heritages constructed and...

9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Notions of HeritageHeritage Changes Itself (Geographical and Linguistic Processes of Transformation)Urban HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage changes itselfHeritage and geographyLinguistic transformation of heritageNotions of heritage

Space plays a crucial role in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Although space has often been discussed in heritage studies, further critical analysis of the constructive and performative nature of space, in particular that of scale and territoriality, is needed in order to understand the power hierarchies and mechanisms of power in cultural heritage and in various conflicts related to its meanings, ownership, preservation and management. The idea of cultural herit...

15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
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Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son identification ou de sa conservation. Cela peut plus profondément s’expliquer parce que, dès le départ, il célébre un événement ou conserve une mémoire qui peut être ou devenir une source de dissenssions et de conflits politiques. Enfin, sa reconnaissance suscite des gains économiques pour les uns mais des pertes pour les autres. Mais peut-être...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based HeritageReligious HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage changes placeCo-construction of heritageCommunity-based heritageHeritage makers

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are being enlarged and enhanced, whole urban districts are being developed with churches and temples boasting diverse, and often unorthodox, religious practices. Epistemologically linked to heritage, the sacred now seems to follow a path of its own, staging itself in new settings where the “religious heritage” refers mostly to common practices, however...

13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)Activists and ExpertsPublic event
Heritage as an agent of changeEpistemologiesOntologiesTeaching

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conservation, meaningless, or without substantive power or influence. We will examine this notion in relation to the history, theory, and practical application of significance as a concept and method in heritage. In short, we will discuss the significance of insignificance. The notion of ‘significance’ is central to heritage conservation in many pa...

15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the Local SocietiesIntangible HeritageArtsArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local

The 1970s witnessed a flourishing of living experiments in space, place and community sharing broad ambitions to bring about transformed human social and interpersonal conditions, to re-envision relationships between people and the environment and ecology of their habitats, and to reject a growing mainstream vision of people as passive consumers in favour of a role as creative and adventurous agents of their own destinies. While some expressions of these experiments were non-spatial or intend...