ICICH is excited to support The ArchaeoLore Group Webinar series for 2024/2025.

September 2024 – May 2025, Tuesdays at 5 p.m. CET / 4 p.m. Portugal
Organizers: Alexandra Vieira and Katarina Botić

The aim of this series is to bring together researchers dedicated to the study of the following topics: archaeology, landscape, place names, and social memory (folklore, oral narratives, oral tradition). 

The ArchaeoLore Group believes that the valuable insights of archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists, folklorists, geographers, historians, and others, would greatly improve the holistic study of the past. The perspective and research interests of our lecturers closely align with the goals of the ArchaeoLore Group:

• the study of human-environment relationships, cultural manifestations and beliefs, humanized landscape interpretation and social memory, as well as the protection of intangible cultural heritage through transdisciplinary analysis that will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the human experience, past and present
• to interpret cultural heritage through the study of archaeology, oral traditions, social memory, and place names, uncovering the connections between tangible and intangible heritage, revealing the ways in which cultural practices, beliefs, and stories are embedded in landscapes and passed down through generations
• to study the ways in which oral traditions, folklore and place names are linked to specific landscapes and archaeological sites

The ArchaeoLore Group webinars are an opportunity to share knowledge and provide a moment of productive interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the added value of collaborative research, providing the opportunity to engage in stimulating discussions and develop professional relationships with other researchers in the field.

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Calendar of Webinars

24.09.2024. Katja Hrobat Virloget – Between archaeology and anthropology. Collective memory, liminal spaces, boundaries, and mythical landscape

22.10.2024. Alexandra Vieira – Sacred Landscapes: The Christianization of the Landscape in the North of Portugal

19.11.2024. Tõnno Jonuks – Biographies of sacred natural sites in Estonia – just a local history or potential research method?

03.12.2024. Loredana Lancini – The big Giant is watching you: studying natural phenomena and landscape through oral tradition and mythology 14.01.2025. Tomáš Klír – Archaeology and contact onomastics: Case studies from Central Europe

11.02.2025. István Kollai – Europeanization of national historical consciousness through castle renovation projects

18.03.2025. Marilena Papachristophorou – Lost palimpsests: searching for the memory of the past in East Aegean, Greece

22.04.2025. Patrick D. Nunn – Remembering Sea-Level Rise and Island Creation in Australian and Celtic Cultures

13.05.2025. Joana Valdez-Tullett – Rock Art, Landscape and the Prevalence of Collective Memory

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the international symposium, The Further Evolution of Authenticity through the Lens of Heritage Ecosystems has been extended until September 3 (Tuesday), 2024.

The symposium will be held in Takasaki, Japan, on January 10 and 11, 2025, and aims to explore the challenges we face by focusing on the concept of a heritage ecosystem. A heritage ecosystem is understood to encompass the cyclical and organic relationships among various elements that constitute the rich cultural and natural environment of the region and that are connected to the heritage. Because challenges to heritage are ever-changing, the concept of a heritage ecosystem offers a powerful framework for better coping with the challenges that confront us today and those to come.

Read the full call for papers on the website. 

This document presents the current standards for ethical practice in the identification, conservation, management and celebration of intangible cultural heritage of cultural spaces. It was developed by the ICOMOS International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICICH) from the Kimberley Declaration drafted at an international meeting held in South Africa in October 2003 for the 14th ICOMOS General Assembly at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

The successful webinar, “Brajavali – a special literary language,” organized by ICOMOS India North East Zone on 10 November 2023 in collaboration with ICICH was publicized in The Assam Tribune. You can read more about the webinar in the article (below).  

Download a pdf of the newspaper — see page 8 for the article. 

Do you work in cultural heritage? Are you passionate about cultural preservation? Are you working in the area of language, arts, or heritage? Do you work with communities or with governments? Please join us at the ‘Conversations on Intangible Cultural Heritage’ conference on May 17 and 24, on-line.

The aim of this is to draw on the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and to initiate a national dialogue about ICH. The dialogue will be set over a span of two days and will bring in practitioners, governments, community members, academics, students, and other stakeholders interested in heritage. By initiating conversations, the conference hopes to raise awareness and visibility about the importance of ICH, support knowledge-exchange and resource mobilization, promote initiatives and good practices, and contribute to the development and growth of the ICH network in Canada.

A Poetic Documentary about Tibetan Ritual Mask Dance, Cham, by Aase-Hilde Brekke. 

Brekke will talk about how these particular dances are performed in honour of the Indian Guru and master Padmasambhava, who is also called The second Buddha. The dances shows both wrathful and peaceful dances, originally a copy of the celestial beings. The dances are believed to bring purifications and blessings for the surroundings, and train the dancers and the spectators to meet the different Bardo-stages in death.

The monastery Tashi Jong in Tibet, is well known for their elaborate dances, and they perform the dances four times a year. Due to the exile situation for the Tibetan refugees, they have lost a lot of costumes, masks and the religious texts as well.

As part of the programme, Brekke will also present ICOMOS’ work, and Eivind Falk will talk about ICOMOS’ and UNESCO’s work on Intangible Heritage.

Arranged by:  The research group Philosophy, Art and Culture, OsloMet, Oslo, Norway.

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The Mask dance of the drums from Drametse was inscribed in 2008 (3.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (originally proclaimed in 2005) https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/mask-dance-of-the-drums-from-drametse-00161

A Poetic Documentary about Tibetan Ritual Mask Dance, Cham, by Aase-Hilde Brekke. 

1 June, 2022 15:00 – 17:00
Pilestredet, Oslo

Brekke will talk about how these particular dances are performed in honour of the Indian Guru and master Padmasambhava, also referred to as The second Buddha. The dances shows both wrathful and peaceful dances, originally a copy of the celestial beings. The dances are believed to bring purifications and blessings for the surroundings, and train the dancers and the spectators to meet the different Bardo-stages in death.

The monastery Tashi Jong in Tibet is well known for their elaborate dances, and they perform the dances four times a year. Due to the exile situation for the Tibetan refugees, they have lost a lot of costumes, masks and the religious texts as well.

As part of the programme, Brekke will also present ICOMOS’ work, and Eivind Falk will talk about ICOMOS’ and UNESCO’s work on Intangible Heritage.

Arranged by:  The research group Philosophy, Art and Culture, OsloMet, Oslo, Norway.

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The Mask dance of the drums from Drametse was inscribed in 2008 (3.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (originally proclaimed in 2005)