At the end of August, the Faculty of Humanities hosted an international conference entitled Cultural Heritage and Depopulation in Europe. The three-day event was attended by more than than 100 participants from 23 countries, from Armenia to the United Kingdom, who met over three days for presentations and discussions on topics such as the impact of depopulation on peripheral areas in Europe, cultural heritage and urban architecture, and the effects of depopulation on cultural transmission. Doctoral students of General Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University played a significant role in organizing the conference, actively participating and presenting their research. The conference was held as part of the research project Cultural Heritage in Depopulating Areas of Europe (HerInDep), which is being carried out by a consortium of three research institutions led by researchers from Charles University. Researchers from Kaunas University of Technology and the University of the Highlands and Islands were also well represented at this academic meeting – not only their senior researchers participated in the event, but also doctoral students and representatives of local organizations. The conference also included a round table with the associate partners in the project, which brought together representatives of more than ten non-profit organizations, local associations, and cultural and memory institutions from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and the Shetland Islands, who shared experiences and examples of "good practice" from their regions.
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Partners:
Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change
