Coordination:
Alexandra Georgescu Paquin (Universitat de Barcelona): alexandrageorgescu@ub.edu
Jordi Arcos Pumarola (CETT-Universitat de Barcelona): jordi.arcos@cett.cat
Maria del Pilar Leal Londoño (CETT-Universitat de Barcelona):
mpilar.leal@cett.cat 

The close relationship between tourism and culture generates a dynamic that consists in identifying and finding more and more elements of attraction in cultural expressions for inclusion in the logic of tourism. In this way, cultural tourism was initially based on material resources such as built heritage or art, elements that generate a contemplative relationship with the visitor. Yet, now  it has integrated experiences where the visitor lives the culture first-hand thanks to the creation of new tourism products. Thus, intangible heritage is becoming increasingly important in the proposal of tourism. This has been accentuated because of the pandemic, as it has provoked a movement towards local cultures and proximity tourism. In this sense, it is necessary to consider issues such as tourism management, the use of new technologies and the perception of authenticity, among others, to ensure a sustainable future for tourist destinations.

Presentations about experiences of interrelation of the ICH with tourism, the tourism management of the ICH and the challenges and problems of the ICH in its tourist use will be accepted.

Coordination:
Ángeles Castaño Madroñal (Universidad de Sevilla): angelescastano@tutanota.com
Fabien Van Geert (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): fabien.van-geert@sorbonne- nouvelle.fr
Omar Guzmán Ralat (Universitat de Barcelona): orgralat@gmail.com

The “decolonial turn” in the field of cultural heritage is a challenge for the conception, management and interpretation of heritage. It is an opportunity for epistemological renewal that has been built on two fundamental axes of debate about the nature of movable and immovable material heritage: processes of restitution of museum pieces and the questioning of monuments in public spaces. Intangible cultural heritage constructs sensitive meanings that jeopardize the processes of institutionalization, challenging critical positions -including decolonial ones- to overcome the limits of coloniality and its forms. The selection process, dominated by (self)representations of exclusivity/exclusion in the positions of indigenization vs. national hegemony, centers a discursive game that fails to alter it, to the detriment of diversity. Analyzing and reflecting on the ICH that reinforces coloniality or challenges the theoretical paradigm, as well as on the decolonization of the processes of patrimonialization itself is a prevailing need.

Presentations about experiences or debates of decolonization in museums, associations and indigenous societies will be accepted.

Coordination:
Camila del Mármol Cartaña (Universitat de Barcelona): cdelmarmol@ub.edu
Fabiola Mancinelli (Universitat de Barcelona): fabiolamancinelli@ub.edu

This symposium seeks to explore the different intersections of gender, ethnicity, class, and other possible sources of inequality and oppression that go through the processes of heritagization in our contemporary world. With an eye on the contexts of economic and political production, but also on cultural and affective ones that determine the selection of heritages, we are interested in creating a space for discussion that allows us to contrast how the different systems of exploitation and oppression produce patrimonial configurations and diverse alignments of the uses of the local past, giving rise to a historical distillation of the social dynamics of inequality in each context. Heritage, from this perspective, can be complicit in complex naturalizations of racism, gender violence or the exploitation of large sectors of the population that have historically taken place in the context of the different nation states, immersed in turn in the complex configurations of colonial domination developed over the centuries. Likewise, the complex contemporary heritage assemblages can become battlefields for the struggle of different groups that demand the subversion of the canons of exploitation and inequality.

We will accept presentations about debates in relation to the dynamics of gender, ethnicity and class inequality, showing the various configurations and conflicts related to the ICH.

Coordination:
Lluís Bellas Melgosa (Universitat de Barcelona): lluisbellas@ub.edu
Guillermo Soler de Oteyza (Limonium SL ): guillesoler@yahoo.com

The impact of Covid-19 worldwide has generated one of the largest social, political and economic crises in recent history and these are affecting multiple dimensions of life, including the intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Health restrictions have put in check a heritage such as the ICH, deeply linked to people and communities who transmit it and give it continuity. Communities have suffered economic losses, suspension of their rituals and profound psychological effects leading to open social conflicts. Paradoxically, this global crisis is also generating a great boost to creativity with the reinvention of cultural practices by communities. It should also be noted that communities have promoted the use of digital technologies as tools to transmit their knowledge, disseminate their practices through virtual museums, sell their crafts in e-commerce formats or broadcast their rituals through social networks. Virtuality has thus allowed a new form of continuity for the transmission, awareness and recreation of the ICH. This symposium aims to reflect on the multiple responses of communities to the impact of Covid-19 on intangible cultural heritage (conflicts, adaptations, reinventions, resilience, etc.) and proposals for its future sustainability.

We will accept communications that explain or reflect on experiences related to the effects of COVID during the pandemic period, its resilience and transformation capacity, as well as the challenges that could arise for the ICH in the future.

Coordination:​
Alejandra Canals Ossul (Universitat de Barcelona): alejandra_canals@ub.edu
Mireia Guil Egea (Universitat de Barcelona): mguil@ub.edu
Elodia Hernández León (Universidad Pablo Olavide): eherleo@upo.es

The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) inaugurates a new paradigm in relation to public policies applied to the management of this “new” heritage. The ratification of this document implies that the States parties agree to adopt a series of measures to manage and safeguard their intangible cultural heritage (ICH). This entails, on the one hand, a normativization in terms of what is meant by safeguarding knowledge and practices now recognized as ICH, and on the other, a series of tensions resulting from the diverse interpretations and translations that States carry out with respect to the postulates and actions stipulated in the Convention. One of the key concepts of the Convention is that of participation, from which emerges a strategy that aims at political decentralization and governance around the identification and safeguarding of ICH. This, however, poses significant challenges in terms of the creation of structures and methodologies that are implemented for this purpose, the effective inclusion of the diversity of agents involved in binding processes, the emergence of conflicts and different visions and the risk that the bureaucratization of these processes excludes those actors that are not part of the authorized heritage discourse.

We will accept presentations that carry out analysis of the participation processes that are articulated in the different patrimonial regimes around the identification and safeguarding of the ICH, the roles and relationships that are established between the various actors (institutions, technicians, associations, among others) that participate in these and the results that emanate from these initiatives in terms of the enhancement and safeguarding of the PCI.