Lectures

Heritage Studies | World Heritage | Intangible Heritage

The team of the IHS presented its positions and knowledge on the subjects Heritage Studies, World Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Documentary Heritage, and Interculturality worldwide. You can find a thematic selection of presentations here.

Heritage Studies

Marie-Theres Albert,  Heritage Studies – Constructing a Paradigm:  Blue Shield Meeting in the European Parliament,  Brussels,  4th November 2018, updated in April 2020. First version: Wuhan/China in September 2017

Marie-Theres Albert, Culture, Heritage and Identity - Series of lectures on Cultural  Heritage in the 21st Century - Opportunities and Challenges, Institute Heritage Studies Berlin, March 2020, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, September 2016, International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland, May 2010

Marie-Theres Albert, Transboundary European World Heritage - a Topic for UNESCO Associated Schools - What has been done?  What has been achieved? What are the next steps? Summary/Keynote on the final Conference of the ECHY project in 2019, Berlin 19th December

Marie-Theres Albert, Transboundary European World Heritage — Chance and Challenge for Building a European Identity through Education, 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe in Krakow 19th/20th September 2019

Anca Claudia Prodan, On Conflict: Insights from Heritage Studies, Online lecture series “Performing Sustainability”, Hildesheim University, Germany, 14th February 2018.

World Heritage

Marie-Theres Albert, The Global Strategy – Filling the Gaps. Series of Lectures of the IHS, updated in January 2022.

Marie-Theres Albert, 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility - Conflict & Reconciliation;

Marie-Theres Albert, 40 Years World Heritage Convention – On^ the popularization of a protection concept of cultural and natural assets; Presented in Iringa/Tanzania in July 2016, updated for: Series of Lectures of the IHS in 2019/2020

Marie-Theres Albert, Criteria for assessing the OUV of World Heritage. Series of Lectures of the Institute Heritage Studies in 2019/2020

Marie-Theres Albert, The Global Strategy of World Heritage – A concept for an Equitable and Sustainable Implementation of the World Heritage Convention - Series of Lectures of the Institute Heritage Studies in 2019/2020

Intangible Heritage

World Heritage and Intangible Heritage - What connects them and what distinguishes them?
Lecture by Marie-Theres Albert on the 20th anniversary of the Intangible Heritage Convention, 17 October 2023.
Lecture currently available in German only

Marie-Theres Albert, Anca Claudia Prodan, Intangible Cultural Heritage – From the Development of a Concept to the Protection of Cultural Diversity,
Guest lecture at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in March 2019

Marie-Theres Albert, Anca Claudia Prodan, The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Guest lecture at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) 2018

Marie- Theres Albert, The Potentials of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development – A look back at the beginning
Lecture at the Institute Heritage Studies (IHS), 25 October 2017
Presentation on the launch of the 2nd pillar of the IHS: Intangible Cultural Heritage