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Pamiatková ochrana historických sídelných celkov
1st CALL FOR PAPERS:
5th International Seminar on Urban Conservation CHANGING ROLE AND RELEVANCE OF URBAN CONSERVATION CHARTERS
19 – 21 November 2007, Recife – BrazilThe seminar is organized by the Center for Advanced Studies on Integrated Conservation (CECI) and the Graduated Program on Urban Development of the Federal University of Pernambuco.
It is supported by: ICCROM, WHC/UNESCO, IPHAN, CAIXA and the Brazilian Ministry of Cities.Previous editions of the Seminar were held in Recife 1995, 1998, 2004 and Salvador 2001.
Theme:
Since “The Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments” numerous documents: charters, conventions, declarations, guidelines, recommendations and the like have been adopted by variety of assemblies of professionals, politicians and dilettantes. These documents embody the ambition of their initiators to guide the conservation of monuments and sites in different countries, regions, and in the whole world. Each of them reflects the thinking of its creators at a given time. Changing times, new people and evolving collective experience give birth to new paradigms. They result in more documents, and sometimes in the efforts to revise the existing documents. This seminar addresses a problem expressed in three questions:
1. Practice: Are these collectively produced documents effective and productive? Do they influence the practice of urban conservation, and how?
2. Theory: Do these documents reflect the state of theory of urban conservation at their time? Do they drive the development of the theory? Do they respond to new ideas of philosophy and epistemology?
3. Diversity: Are such documents and the principles expressed in them universally applicable? Do they need to be interpreted differently in different cultural settings?Authors interested in presenting a paper on one of above themes are welcome to submit an extended abstract (500-1000 words) in English to the executive committee of the seminar till 1 March 2007.
Precise information on themes, organization and submission details can be found in the following website: http://www.ceci-br.org/5seminar
Prof. Dr. Silvio Mendes Zancheti,
CECI, President of the Administration Council
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