Publication 'Performing Arts and Intercultural Dialogue'
The idea for the publication ‘Performing Arts and Intercultural Dialogue’ starts from a scientific proposal, that is a reflection launched by the magazine «Antropologia e Teatro» on the relationship between the 2003 Convention and the performing arts. In the autumn of 2022, a call for papers was launched for a special issue entitled Performing Arts and Intercultural Dialogue. For the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, to which more than 50 international scholars have responded. 22 contributions have been selected which will address, inter alia, the relationship between practices and regulations before and after the adoption of the 2003 Convention, the balance between safeguarding and promotion, the approach to performance in different geographical contexts, the relationship between intangible and material assets, as well as the effectiveness, potential and limits of the Convention applied to the performing arts.
The dossier is edited by Matteo Casari, Matteo Paoletti and Umewaka Nahoiko, and includes contributions from the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, and the UNESCO Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. The activity is part of a wider project, called ‘Arts and performance twenty years after the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage’, based on the collaboration between the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, the Ministry of Culture, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Council of Research and the Municipality of Bologna.
The project consists of a series of initiatives to reflect on the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, twenty years after its adoption.
