Seminar Series | CHANGING HERITAGE LANDSCAPES. Contemporary challenges confronting conservation and tourism beyond the nature-culture dichotomy

Palazzo Wollemborg, via del Santo 26, 35123 Padova

Dal 13.04.2023 al 11.07.2023

Landscapes have always been confronted with and produced by change. While the social sciences and humanities have acknowledged their dynamic and relational nature, the effort has seemed particularly difficult for landscapes that are recognised, protected and consumed for their heritage and exceptional value.

This seminar series aims to critically address the landscape-heritage-ecotourism nexus from multiple perspectives: merging the debates on the processual and relational nature of heritage landscapes with the ongoing reflection on their hybrid/social nature and critical accounts on ecotourism practices that focus specifically on contexts such as protected areas and UNESCO biosphere reserves.

With the participation of international scholars working at the interface between geography, heritage studies, social sciences and conservation, each seminar will allow explorations and reflections on
international perspectives and case studies closely related to current research avenues fueling the Italian geographic debate.

The seminars are open to graduate and PhD students and post-doc and other researchers.

The “Changing Heritage Landscapes” seminar series is organized as part of the research project “Landscape Conservation, Transformation and Use in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: Italian Experiences and International Contributions”, coordinated by Margherita Cisani and funded by the Department of Historic and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova, Italy.

Please contact margherita.cisani@unipd.it for any further information

PROGRAMME:

April 13
16:30 - Sala Africa, Palazzo Wollemborg, via del Santo 26, 35123 Padova
Online at: https://bit.ly/3kCDTmJ 

Erik Aschenbrand (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development), How protected areas create new narratives for regional development: Nature conservation, landscape stereotypes and contested heritagization processes

May 17
16:30 - Sala Alpi, Palazzo Wollemborg, via del Santo 26, 35123 Padova
Online at: https://bit.ly/FletcherCHL

Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University), Rethinking the Relationship between Ecotourism and Conservation

June 8
16:30 - Sala Africa, Palazzo Wollemborg, via del Santo 26, 35123 Padova
Online at: https://bit.ly/StensekeCHL

Marie Stenseke (University of Gothenburg), Managing landscape values and nature’s contributions to people

July 11
14:30 - Sala Africa, Palazzo Wollemborg, via del Santo 26, 35123 Padova
Online at:  https://bit.ly/WatertonCHL

Emma Waterton (University of York) and Vanessa Whittington (Western Sydney University), Rethinking the Heritage-Tourism nexus in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Photo by Margherita Cisani