An international workshop titled: “Archaeological Heritage and Cultural Management” was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, within the framework of the research programme “The Construction of Knowledge in Archaeology and Art History in Southeastern Europe”, conducted at the Center for Advanced Study Sofia, under the direction of Dimitris Plantzos, professor of classical archaeology at NKUA, and Dr Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology “Vasile Pârvan” (Bucharest).
The Programme investigates the ways in which scientific narratives of the past are constructed based on archaeology, in the countries of SE Europe (Greece and Cyprus, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Romania, Turkey). It is articulated through a series of conferences and workshops aimed at dialogue, establishing partnerships and strengthening synergies between archaeologists and art historians in the region, while at the same time promoting interdisciplinarity in the study of the past.
In addition to the two programme directors and the Center’s Director, Dr Diana Mishkova, Michael Herzfeld, John Carman, Vangelis Kyriakidis, Raimund Karl, Kalliopi Fousekis, Hans Peter Hahn, Robin Skeates, Stephanie Koerner, Ivo Strahilov, and Miglena Stamberova also took part in the meeting in Sofia, as well as PhD candidates and recent PhDs from Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, Spain and the USA.
The concluding international conference of the Programme, under the title: “The local and the global in the construction of knowledge in archeology and art history: the view from Southeastern Europe”, will be held in Athens, under the auspices of NKUA, in November 2023.
The session has ended for security reasons.