Online Conference: Learning from the Past - Engaging for the Future
As part of the EU project “Diversity in Unity: Intercultural Dialogue Through the Waves of Danube”,this conference aims to first reconstruct the dialogue among the material and intangible cultural heritage and thus foster intercultural understanding among EU-member and Non-EU-member states, including Turkey.
Secondly, it aims to elaborate new inclusive European #perspectives against the background of current contradictory EU integration and disintegration processes.
According to the UNESCO definition, cultural heritage includes - apart from monuments and collections of objects - also traditions and living expressions such as performing arts, social practices or festive events, inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants.
In that sense, intangible cultural heritage embodies cultural #diversity within a geographical region that can, if understood as such, foster intercultural #dialogue.
In the Danube region, intangible cultural heritage appears to be the wealth of knowledge and skills that is intergenerationally transmitted.
The Danube region moreover seems to be a “musée imaginaire”, when referring to André Malraux, meaning that it is characterized by the heritage of Byzantinism, the competing Ottoman and Habsburg rule, imperialism, modernism, both World Wars, and finally the Iron Curtain, post-communism as well as the European integration.
International Online Conference organized by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in cooperation with the Vienna School of International Studies, the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Istanbul and others.
More information on the conference can be found here:
www.idm.at/veranstaltungen/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/item/learning-from-the-past-%E2%80%93-engaging-for-the-future-intercultural-dialogue-through-the-danube-waves-to-the-black-sea-region
0:00 Ambassador Emil Brix: Welcome and introduction
4:27 Dr. Erhard Busek: Introduction
11:08 Gábor Fodor: Opening remarks
16:19 Professor Attila Pók: The Elbe and the Danube
35:38 Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Hanus: Danube Limes - our common heritage for our common future
46:53 Prof. Jelena Todorovic: The Heritage of of Baroque Fluidity Today
58:00 Dr. Gábor Zsigmond: Maritime Economic Relations Between the Ottoman Empire and Hungary
1:09:17 Musée Imaginaire - Prof. Jelena Todorovic
1:12:57 Meaning of Central Europe - Dr. Gábor Zsigmond
1:20:03 Meaning of Connectivity - Prof. Jelena Todorovic
1:25:00 Buliding Walls - Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Hanus
1:30:20 Dr. Gábor Zsigmond - Summary
1:32:11 Prof. Jelena Todorovic - Summary
1:37:10 Dr. Erhard Busek - Concluding remarks for the first Panel