Cultural Heritage Institutions, Policies and Ethics

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Teaching model fundamentally theoretical and practical, combining, in a balanced way, theoretical presentations, presentation and discussion of relevant themes and challenges of intense critical participation by the students and, also, important input from invited speakers in organized lectures.

Learning Outcomes

Know the main lines of thought and action in relation to different types of cultural heritage - especially buildings - acquiring critical capacity to evaluate and implement coherent and effective policies, also mastering the instruments that allow them to be implemented.
Reflect on the implications for societies in general and for certain segments of them in particular, of the choices made in terms of both presence or absence and the logic of political configuration and practices of cultural heritage. Reflect on the possibility and virtualities of deontological regulation of cultural heritage.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- POLITICS and HERITAGE
Cultural Heritage: concept and its evolution.
The political importance of heritage
International institutions linked to the safeguarding and enhancement of Cultural Heritage
International Heritage Protection Charter
The World Heritage Convention
The role of NGOs in safeguarding and enhancing Cultural Heritage
National institutions for safeguarding and valuing Cultural Heritage and their competencies
- MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL GOODS
Monumental Heritage
Urban Heritage
Rural Heritage
Intangible Heritage
- HERITAGE AND SOCIETY
Heritage and Tourism
Heritage and identity
Heritage and science
Heritage and sustainable development.
Societies, population segments and cultural heritage policies.
Ethical regulation of cultural heritage.

Head Lecturer(s)

Professor a Definir - Faculdade de Letras

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 100.0%

Bibliography

ICOMOS, Report on Economics of conservation. An appraisal of theories, principles and methods. International Scientific Committee on Economics of Conservation, Paris, 1998.
PADERSEN, Arthur, Gestión del turismo en sitios del Patrimonio Mundial: Manual práctico para administradores de sitios del Patrimonio Mundial, Centro del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO, Paris, 2005.
ICOMOS, La Liste du patrimoine mondial: Combler les lacunes–un plan d’action pour le futur. Une analyse de l’ICOMOS. Paris, 2004.
AMADO MENDES, J., Estudos do Património: Museus e Educação, col. “Estudos: Humanidades”, n.º 3, 2ª ed., Imprensa da UC, 2013.
UNESCO World Heritage Publications, http://whc.unesco.org/en/publications/.
Choay, Françoise (2014), Alegoria do património. 3. ed. Edições 70.
Waterton, Emma & Watson, Steve (2015), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. Palgrave Macmillan.
Peralta, Elsa e Anico, Marta (orgs) (2005), Património e Identidades. Ficções Contemporâneas. Celta Editora.