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Conference Themes

1. Cultural Landscapes, Museums and Heritage (Tangible and Intangible)

• Memory and place
• Food and cultural landscapes
• Music and place
• Dance and place
• Spiritual/religious landscapes
• Indigenous landscapes
• Language and place
• Ecomuseums and cultural landscapes
• Museums and cultural landscapes
• Heritage sites and cultural landscapes
• Archaeological heritage as cultural landscape
• Natural Heritage and cultural landscapes

2. Cultural Landscapes and Visual Culture

• Art galleries/art museums and their place in the cultural landscape
• Artists and their relationship to specific locales
• Landscape as art (e.g. gardens)
• ‘Land art’
• Permanent and temporary art interventions in the landscape
• Public art in the landscape
• Art galleries and regional/national identities
• Rock art and cultural landscapes
• Cultural landscapes and Virtual Reality

3. Cultural Landscapes, Identities, and Communities

• Landscape as a part of international, national, regional, or local identity
• Cultural landscapes and cultural diversity
• Exclusion from cultural landscapes
• Public participation in landscapes
• Sustainable communities and cultural landscapes
• Conflicting uses of cultural landscapes
• Diaspora and migration within or across cultural landscapes
• Exile and concepts of “home” – taking cultural landscape with you while leaving the geographical one behind
• Place as intersection of different identities
• Inventing new cultural landscapes and alternative conceptions of place

4. Cultural Landscapes, Tourism, and Economics

• Landscapes as economic resource
• Sustainability and landscapes
• Ethics of using cultural landscapes
• Balancing demands by tourists and locals upon cultural landscapes
• Tourism as a means of regeneration for the landscape
• Reinventing post-industrial landscapes as heritage landscapes
• Heritage industry and cultural landscapes
• Entertainment sector and its impact on cultural landscapes

5. Cultural Landscapes and Architecture

• Cityscapes as cultural landscapes
• Coastal landscapes
• Rural landscapes
• Signature buildings and cultural landscapes
• The politics of listing architectural and landscape heritage
• Managing historic buildings and landscapes
• Managing historic buildings
• Architecture and historic landscapes
• Vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes
• The designed landscape as cultural heritage

6. Cultural Landscapes and Education

• Learning through cultural landscapes
• Teaching cultural landscapes
• Informal and formal learning systems and cultural landscapes
• Lifelong learning and cultural landscapes
• National curricula and cultural landscapes
• Working with UNESCO World Heritage Education Project

7. Cultural Landscapes, Management and Protection

• Funding cultural landscapes
• Management plans/strategies for protecting cultural landscapes
• Legislation and conventions (regional, national, and international)
• Ethics and cultural landscapes
• Governments and Cultural Landscapes
• NGOs, International bodies and Cultural landscapes
• Charities and the management/protection of cultural landscapes
• Communities and their role in managing or protecting cultural landscapes
• Managing conflicting interests/demands upon cultural landscapes
• Issues of ownership, control, and legal/ethical rights