Workshop Organization

The PhD Workshop on Cultural Heritage will last for 3 full days. There will be parallel and plenary sessions, visits, fieldwork, and small workshops, as well as meetings with museums, archives, heritage societies, philanthropists and charities, ministries, NGOs, enterprises, specialized media, stakeholders in public history, archaeology, intangible heritage and heritage businesses.

The main language of the workshop is English. Multilingual approaches are however encouraged for the presentations (i.e. presentations made in more than one language, multilingual discussions of concepts, etc.).

The PhD Workshop has an interactive format in order to facilitate interactions and debates between PhD students. Selected PhD students will be required to engage in active participation before, during and after the Workshop.

Before the WS (once selected): PhD students will be expected to send an extended abstract to all the other participants (PhD fellows), and to respond to their texts. Discussion will be mediated through an online portal dedicated to the Workshop.

During the WS: PhD students will be expected to present their research. On a voluntary basis, and in relation with senior researchers, some of them will lead the discussion or moderate the debate during a session of presentation, a round table or a poster session.

After the WS: PhD students will be asked to write a brief report stating individual results of the Workshop and the ways they may use the Workshop exchanges and debates in their own research. These reports will be put on the website of the PhD Workshop, along with recordings of the plenary talks, to make the results available to other UNA Europa students.

The Workshop will also include plenary lectures by researchers from participating universities about methodology, but always linked to specific cases of successful PhDs. Rather than being classic keynotes, these lectures will use theoretical and methodological material to enable students to react to and to appropriate the schemas or the processes of others.