Forum Protecting Heritage in an ever-changing world

  • Location : Bahrain
  • Date: 2018
  • Participating Countries : Algeria, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Benin, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, China, Cuba, Colombia,Ghana,Greece, Guatemala, India, Kuwait, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA, Zimbabwe
  • Partner Institutions : BACA, UNESCO

The project

The World Heritage Youth Forum is a meeting for young professionals, organized right before the World Heritage Committee meeting. The session is addressed to young heritage professionals and aims to transmit the values of World Heritage, highlighting the potential that World Heritage education may have towards facilitating sustainable development. At the end of each Forum, a declaration is produced from the participants and presented to the WHC.

What is this Forum about?

Heritage, following the pace of human evolution, keeps changing and evolving. When it comes to protecting heritage, specialists constantly face new challenges, yet new tools and advanced technologies are now available for them. The Young Expert Forum “Protecting Heritage in an Ever-changing world”, will offer participants the possibility to reflect upon the everlasting conflict between preserving the past and moving on towards the future.

Bahrain, being a small Kingdom with an intense population movement and rapid transformations, becomes an ideal case study. Participants, with the guidance of local and foreign experts, will day by day reflect on the influence of historic evolution on heritage, on its ability to adapt to changes but will also analyse the risks emanating from a rapidly mutating world, progressively adding elements of reflexion.

Contents

World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2018 is organized by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities in collaboration with the World Heritage Centre in the framework of the World Heritage Education Programme. The scientific programme is developed in cooperation with Diadrasis.(14-26 June 2018)

THEMATICS
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY AND PEOPLE
PLACE AND MATERIALS
FACING THE FUTURE
HERITAGE AND COMMUNITIES
SIMULATION OF THE WHC
DRAFTING A DECLARATION
COMMITTEE MEETING
COMMITTEE MEETING-EXHIBITION
CONCLUSION DAY

INVITED SPEAKERS

  • Haifaa ABDULAHALIM, Bahrain, TABE’A programme Manager
  • Dr. Wafa ALGHATAM, Bahrain,Chair of Urban and Housing Lab at the University of Bahrain
  • Dr. Noura ALSAYEH, Bahrain of Architecural Affairs/ Director of the Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy Project
  • Tim Bowden, USA
  • Dr. Christina CAMERON, Canada, Chair in Built Heritage at the University of Montreal
  • Ghassan GHEMALI, Lebanon, Project Coordinator (Pearling Restoration Project, BACA)
  • Dr. Louise COOKE, UK, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York
  • Jonathan EATON, Albania, Program Officer, Cultural Heritage without Borders–Albania
  • Dr. Ali KARIMI, Bahrain
  • Dr. Arang KESHAVARAZIAN, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
  • Josheph King, ICCROM
  • Dr. Salvador MUNOZ VINAS, Professor in the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
  • Dr. Panagiota PANTZOU, Greece, Assistant Professor of Heritage Management at the University of Patras
  • Dr. Susan KEITUMETSE, Botswana, Research Scholar: Heritage studies, Archaeology and Sustainable Development

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Deliverables

     

Declaration 2018