Colloquium: “World Heritage site Val de Loire, identity, protection and enhancement”

Programme

7 December: VAL DE LOIRE: HERITAGE AND IDENTITY 

• Identification of heritage – Well-known and complementary heritage in Val de Loire
• Enhancement of heritage – Enhancement, appropriation, and indifference to heritage

8 December: TOOLS FOR PROTECTION AND HERITAGE POLICY IN VAL DE LOIRE 

• Institutions and legal tools – Reduction of complexity, territorial widening of protection, and legal standing of labels
• Management of large heritage areas

Full programme and registration (until 10 November 2011): 

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/valdeloirepatrimoinedroit/  

Participation by Mission Val de Loire

Mission Val de Loire will be making two presentations during the colloquium: 

• Education on heritage in Val de Loire: a project awaiting construction / Rémi Deleplancque, Culture-Education Officer, Mission Val de Loire.
• A study of UNESCO’s impact on heritage: the Val de Loire experiment / Anne-Marie Cousin, Expert at ICOMOS France, and Myriam Laidet, Sustainable Development Officer, Mission Val de Loire.

Isabelle Longuet, Director of Mission Val de Loire, will also take part in the closing round table: What policies for Val de Loire’s cultural and natural heritage in the future, and for perpetuation of UNESCO listing? 

Finally, the exhibition  “Val de Loire’s cultural landscape” will be presented at the Sciences Education and Research Unit’s University Library, University of Orleans, from 28 November to 16 December 2011.