WITHIN THE PROJECT RESEARCH FOR SOCIETY, THE UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR IS ORGANISING A CONFERENCE CYCLE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN SMART URBAN COASTAL SUSTAINABILITY (SMUCS).
This call is addressed to all EU-CONEXUS partner institutions and their researchers, with the purpose of coming together on topics of common interest. All conferences and roundtables will deal with the challenges of coastal areas’ sustainable development.
Heritage turns blue: Glocal impacts on coastal cultural heritage
This topic would consider interdisciplinary research of coastal cultural heritage under the common blue umbrella, including the underwater domain and islands.
As sub-themes of this conference we can offer:
- the impact of tourism on the cultural heritage of coastal areas
- climate change and coastal cultural heritage
- sea level rise - protection of coastlines
- the importance of cultural heritage for local tourism
- valorisation of cultural heritage on islands
- other issues related to coastal cultural heritage and its sustainable development and interdisciplinary research.
Please fill in the online questionnaire https://www.1ka.si/a/df290801 with a proposal for a sub-theme, so that each partner can choose up to three topics of their interest
The event would take place Tuesday 28th February, 2023. It would be held online via the Zoom platform and would include three parts:
1. Two introductory lectures: Global and local impacts on coastal cultural heritage - a view from Archaeology and geomorphology
Keynote speakers:
- assoc. prof. Irena Radić Rossi (Department of Archaeology, University of Zadar): A view from the depths: protection and valorisation of underwater heritage
- assoc. prof. Nina Lončar (Department of Geography, University of Zadar): Impact of sea level rise on coastal regions
2. Short presentations by up to two researchers from each partner university (up to 10-15 minutes per presentation) in which they would present their research in the area of the event's theme. Researchers should submit their topic proposals and an abstract by 1st February 2023 and presentations by 20th February 2023. As one of the objectives of the conferences is interdisciplinarity in research on SmUCS, we suggest that each presentation emphasize its significance for research.
3. Registration for participants who wish to attend without a presentation is open until Friday, February 24, 2023.
4. This event would be followed by a roundtable/workshop on a topic selected by most partners in the questionnaire. The duration of the roundtable would be 1 hour. During the workshop we would also like that all speakers give their view on benefits or challenges in integration of interdisciplinarity in their research.
