The Conference is organized in frame of the project „Preservation by development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN - III - P4 - ID - PCE - 2016 - 0737

ROMANIAN ACADEMY, IAȘI BRANCH

THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE FROM ROMANIA

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAST FOR THE FUTURE AND FUTURE FOR THE PAST: PRESERVATION

AND PROMOTION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE SITES

Sighișoara, Romania, October 10TH -14TH, 2018

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SIGHIȘOARA MUNICIPALITY AND

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HERITAGE

The Conference is organized in frame of the project „Preservation by development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN - III - P4 - ID - PCE - 2016 - 0737

October 10, 2018 – arriving day

Hotel Sighișoara, str. Școlii no. 4-6 Registration desk, Hotel lobby

16:00 – 18:00 Sighișoara city tour by Dr. Christoph Machat Meeting point – in front of Hotel Sighișoara

October 11, 2018

08:30 – 09:00 Registration of participants, Sighișoara City Hall, str. Piata Muzeului, no. 7

09:00 – 09:30 Opening Remarks • Sergiu Musteață, project director • Ovidiu – Dumitru Mălăncrăvean, Mayor of Sighișoara • Acad. Victor Spinei, vice-president of the Romanian Academy (tbc) • Ștefan Bâlici, director of the National Institute of Heritage

09:30 – 11:00

Plenary session Key speakers:

• Colleen Swain (USA), World Heritage, Our Heritage: A Community Process for World Heritage Management

• Ákos Capdebo (Hungary), Citizen participation in the revitalization of Budapest

• Acad. Victor Spinei (Romania), (tbc)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

All sessions will take place at the National Information Centre, str. Turnului no. 1

Session 1: Strategies for Preservation and Safeguarding World Heritage Sites Chair:

11:30 – 11:50

• Irina Iamandescu (Romania), Implementation of the World Heritage Convention - Why Romania is different?

11:50 – 12:10

• Adrian Crăciunescu (Romania), Movement and reconstruction in conflict with authenticity and integrity - cases in the world heritage list

12:10 – 12:30

• Sergiu Musteață (Romania), State of conservation and Periodic Reporting – a way for better preservation and sustainable development of the World Heritage Sites

12:30 – 13:00 Discussions

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch, Restaurant Hotel Sighișoara, str. Școlii no. 4-6

Session 1: Strategies for Preservation and Safeguarding World Heritage Sites Chair:

14:30 – 14:50

• Andrea Chiricescu (Romania), Who are the real stakeholders of a nominated UNESCO site? A glimpse into the contextualisation of a rather scientific approach to World Heritage nominations

14:50 – 15:10

• Natalia Dănilă-Sandu, Paula Vartolomei, Loredana Axinte, Cristi Cureleț (Romania), The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in conservation of historical monuments

15:10 – 15:30

• Vitalie Bodolică, Tiberiu Potârniche, Cătălin Dobrinescu (Romania), Protection of underwater cultural heritage in national and international legislation

15:30 – 16:00 Discussions

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

The Conference is organized in frame of the project „Preservation by development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN - III - P4 - ID - PCE - 2016 - 0737

Session 2: World Heritage Sites - management and sustainable development Chair:

16:30 – 16:50 • Capdebo Ákos (Hungary), The Organization of the World Heritage Cities – an example of collective effort for better preservation

16:50 – 17:10 • Christoph Machat (Germany), “World heritage sites in Transylvania: „Sighișoara“ and the „Villages with fortified churches“

17:10 – 17:30 • Franz Humer (Austria), Cristian Găzdac (Romania), From ruins to living history in a Roman metropolis on the Danube. The Archaeological Park Carnuntum - European Heritage Label Award

17:30 – 17:50 • Alexandru Popa (Romania), The Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Eastern Dacia. Preliminary results of research conducted in the context of the Romanian National Limes Program

17:50 – 18:30 Discussions

19:00 Dinner, Restaurant Casa cu Cerb, str. Școlii no. 1

October 12, 2018 – Conference day

Session 2: World Heritage Sites — management and sustainable development Chair:

09:00 – 09:20 • Aurora Pețan (Romania), The Dacian Fortresses of Orastie Mountains — problems and challenges in managing the most complex World Heritage Site in Romania

09:20 – 90:40 • Marius-Mihai Ciută (Romania), The Dacian Fortress of Căpâlna. Looking for lost time: 1999-2018

90:40 – 10:00 • Mihaela Turk, Adina Popescu (Romania), Cultural heritage – a resource for community sustainable development

10:00 – 10:20 • Irina Arpentii (Moldova), The Warsaw’s historic centre reconstruction and community involving

10:20 – 10:40 • Dragoş Gheorghiu, Livia Ştefan (Romania), Immersing into the past. An augmented reality method to link tangible and intangible heritage

10:40 – 11:00 Discussions

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Session 3: World Heritage and Local communities - consulting, involving, participation Chair:

11:30 – 11:50 • Daniel Salinas Córdova (The Netherlands), Promoting heritage conservation through international volunteering? A look into UNESCO’s World Heritage Volunteer Initiative

11:50 – 12.10 • Friederike Hansell, Claudia Grünberg (Germany), Communicating (World) heritage values through community empowerment – the case of the World Heritage nomination Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region

12:10 – 12:30 • Anna Gaynutdinova, Eugene Sosedov (Russia), Inclusion vs. Exclusion. Overcoming undemocratic contextual issues in integrating communities to Heritage management and preservation

12:30 – 12:50 • Andrea Martínez Fernández (Germany), Old Havana: community participation, gentrification and inequality

The Conference is organized in frame of the project „Preservation by development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN - III - P4 - ID - PCE - 2016 - 0737

12:50 – 13:00 Discussions

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch, Restaurant Hotel Sighișoara, str. Școlii no. 4-6

Session 4. Cultural Tourism, Digital Technology, and Heritage — promotion, valorisation, use/reuse of World Heritage Sites Chair:

14:30 – 14:50 • Călin Neamțu, Răzvan Mateescu, Vitalie Bârcă (Romania), Promoting and capitalizing on the vestiges from Sarmizegetusa Regia by modern multimedia methods

14:50 – 15:10 • Marian Coman, Aurora Pețan (Romania), Study Centre of Dacica Foundation, Promoting the Dacian Fortresses of Orăștiei Mountains through digital technology

15:10 – 15:30 • Cristina Claudia Popescu (Romania), Cultural Tourism, Digital Technology, and Heritage at the Monastery of Horezu

15:10 – 15:30 Discussions

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Session 5: Heritage, Education and Future Chair:

16:30 – 16:50 • Faidon Moudopoulos Athanasiou (United Kingdom), Does history matter? Understanding and managing natural and cultural values intertwined — a key aspect for heritage professionals’ training

16:50 – 17:10 • Elena-Loredana Cozma (Romania), Media monitoring of the World Heritage Sites in Romania

17:10 – 17:30 • Valentina Voinea (Romania), Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski (Poland), Răzvan Pantelimon (Romania), Pilgrimage and archaeological research in the Cassian Cave

17:30 – 17:50 • Dumitru Rusu (Romania), Analysis of modern socialist heritage in the Republic of Moldova through four case studies

17:50 – 18:20 Discussions

18:20 – 18:40 Final conclusions

19:00 Dinner, Restaurant Hotel Sighișoara, str. Școlii no. 4-6

October 13, 2018 – Study trip day

09:00 Departure from the hotel

09:00 – 13:00 • Fortified Church Biertan by Dr. Christoph Machat • Ațel Church by Dr. Christoph Machat

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Ațel (former Evangelical parish)

14:00 – 19:00 • Sibiu

19:00 Dinner, Restaurant Vila Franka, Sighișoara

21:00 Bus departure to the hotel

October 14, 2018 – departure day

09:00 – 12:00 Hotel check-out

The Conference is organized in frame of the project „Preservation by development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN - III - P4 - ID - PCE - 2016 - 0737

List of participants

1. Arpentii, Irina, Representative of Solidarity Fund PL in Moldova, National Committee ICOM Moldova 2. Athanasiou, Faidon Moudopoulos, University of Sheffield, WRoCAH and AHRC fellow, Scholar of the

A.G. Leventis foundation, United Kingdom 3. Bâlici, Ștefan, director, National Institute of Heritage, Romania 4. Bârcă, Vitalie, Institutul de Arheologie și Istoria Artei, Academia Română, filiala Cluj-Napoca, Romania 5. Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences,

Kraków, Poland 6. Bodolică, Vitalie, Museum of the National History and Archaeology, Constanţa, Romania 7. Borș, Corina, National Muzeum of the History of Romania 8. Caliniuc, Ștefan, Universitatea „Al.I. Cuza”, Romania 9. Chiricescu, Andrea, Universitatea „Valahia”, Romania 10. Claudia Grünberg, International Academy Berlin, Germany 11. Coman, Marian, Study Centre of Dacica Foundation, Romania 12. Cozma, Elena-Loredana, Universitatea „Al.I. Cuza”, Romania 13. Crăciunescu, Adrian, arhitect, secretar al ICOMOS România, Universitatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism

„Ion Micu”, Romania 14. Dobrinescu, Cătălin, Muzeul de Istorie Naţională şi Arheologie Constanţa, Romania 15. Friederike Hansell, project officer UNESCO World Heritage nomination „Erzgebirge/ Krušnohoří

Mining Region“ and head of Saxon World Heritage Coordination, Institute for Industrial Archaeology, History of Science and Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

16. Gaynutdinova, Anna, Historian of Art and Architecture, Member of the Board of NC ICOMOS Russia

17. Găzdac, Cristian, Romanian Academy of Science, Institute of Archaeology Cluj-Napoca, Romania

18. Gheorghiu, Dragoş, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania

19. Humer, Franz, Government of the State of Lower Austria, Department of Cultural Affairs, Archaeological Park Carnuntum, Austria

20. Iamandescu, Ioana-Irina, director al Direcției Patrimoniu Imobil - INP, Focal Point pentru Convenția Patrimoniului Mondial, Romania

21. Machat, Christoph, Architect, ICOMOS Germany

22. Martínez Fernández, Andrea, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

23. Mălăncrăvean, Ovidiu – Dumitru, Mayor of Sighișoara, Romania

24. Musteață, Sergiu, project director, Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Iași branch, Romania

25. Pețan, Aurora, Study Centre of Dacica Foundation, Romania

26. Popa, Alexandru, National Museum of Eastern Carpathians, Sf. Gheorghe, Romania

27. Popescu, Adina, Sighișoara municipality, Romania

28. Popescu, Cristina Claudia, curator of the Exhibition Centre of the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu in Bucharest and PhD student in Arts at the National Arts University Bucharest, Romania

29. Potârniche, Tiberiu, Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanţa, Romania

30. Răzvan Pantelimon, Faculty of History and Political Sciences, Ovidius University, Constanța, Romania

31. Rusu, Dumitru, Bureau for Art and Urban Research, Bucharest, Romania,

32. Salinas Córdova, Daniel, Leiden University, The Netherlands

33. Sosedov, Eugene, VOOPIK, Russia

34. Spinei, Victor, vice-president of the Romanian Academy

35. Ştefan, Livia, National University of Arts, Bucharest

The Conference is organized in frame of the project „Preservation by development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN - III - P4 - ID - PCE - 2016 - 0737

36. Swain, Colleen, Director, World Heritage Office, Municipality of San Antonio, USA

37. Turk, Mihaela, Eminescu Trust, Sighișoara, e-mail: 38. Voinea, Valentina, Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța