19 September 2024. Rome. Stories of Otherness

A collaborative initiative by the EPFL Heritage, Anthropology and Technologies Research Group, Geneva Heritage Lab, and Istituto Svizzero.

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) will discuss how both can be seen as expression of alterity, and how the idea of future is played out in the narratives of festivals and heritage. 

The keynote is moderated by Florence Graezer Bideau and Peter Larsen.

Language: English

Location: Istituto Svizzero, Rome.

Entrance: free, register here.

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