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The HILD Summer School in Heritage, Identity and Local Development: a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis is an international initiative promoted by the University of Padova, Italy, in the framework of its internationalization activities. It definitely fosters the exchange of international perspectives and approaches between partner Institutions, that will take the opportunity of this course to evaluate the potencials of a dedicated international Master Course in Cultural Anthropology and Local Development.

The schools was designed to create a highly qualified and stimulating learning and teaching environment, surely leading to the development of an experts community in the field of historical and cultural heritage focusing on its preservation, management and enhancement as a means to support sustainable local development.

It is mainly addressed to master graduates and PhD candidates with an interest in athropology, industrial heritage or local development as well as professionals and public operators working in the field of cultural heritage and its tangible and intangible assets.

The course gives an insight on the many disciplines that must be involved when dealing with the preservation, communication and management of industrial heritage and industrial landscapes, which may be investigated from several perspectives and offer a unique opportunity to read, our contemporary world and society, undertanding and enhancing its social, historical, technological and economic fundation. That is still recognizible in several tangible assets - working sites, factories and production systems that are no longer in use, company towns - and intangile assets - oral and iconographic resourses, traditions, work culture, social structures and organization, history of production, ect.

The key topic that the School Directors have chosen for this first edition relates to the production practices that Italian immigrants to Olavarria were able to transfer to local communities and further develop in a variety of local industries and industrial districts in Argentina.

The theme will serve as a springboard for further investigation and the introduction of relevant case studies.

The Summer School will consist of four modules.

A first part will give a theoretical and methodological introducuction to the main concepts, themes, and multidisciplinary approaches to the many issues related to Heritage, Identity and Local Development. A second part will explore in depth theseveral issues arising from a multidisciplinary interaction, with particular attention to the different investigation approaches adopted within Anthropological Sciences and Industrial Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnography, History (with specific attention to oral history), Economics, Sociology and Social Communication, when dealing with work cultures and intangible heritage.

A third part will be dedicated to working in the field on selected  case studies, such as the renewal and enhancement of the Riachuelo-Matanza area (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and the mining and industrial sites of lime and cement in the areas surrounding Olavarria, in the center of the Province of Buenos Aires.
A Fourth part of classes will foresee time for discussion, tutorials and the supervision of students at work in the classroom, during the field visits and the development of a project work on which the final evaluation will be based.

Summer School general Program

Heritage, Identity and Development: introduction to the theory and methodology (concepts, themes, and multidisciplinary approaches to the relationship between heritage, identity and Development).
Heritage and Development: an economic perspective.
Anthropology, Archaeology and Industrial Heritage. Visit to sites in the federal District of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Economics of cultural heritage.
Oral History, Heritage and Identity.
Heritage and Social Communication.
Work culture. The historical memory of labour and commercial trades.
Round table and conclusions.

The Summer School will run for two weeks and is worth 6 ECTS credits in a period of time ranging from 17 March to 28 March 2014. Lectures will be given in Spanish and English; activities will be also carried out using Spanish and English as working languages.

Visit to locations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina as to assess and investigate local industrial heritage are part of the program.

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