Project code: BI-ME/23-24-023
Project type: Bilateral project (Slovenia – Montenegro)
Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Boris Kavur
Host institution: University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
Project partner: University of Donja Gorica, Faculty of Culture and Tourism, Podgorica
Source of funding: Public Agency for Scientific Research and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia (ARIS)
Research area (ARIS): 6.02 Humanities / Archaeology
Project duration: 01.01.2023–31.12.2024
Description:
Cultural heritage, as a highly commercialized industry, is closely related to global tourism and the preservation of the past. But it is also deeply individual, combining in its meanings both individual and collective cultural, artistic and economic practices. The project focuses on the global interconnectedness of human communities, which is not just a contemporary phenomenon, but a condition in which human communities have been involved for thousands of years. And it is precisely these processes of networking and integration that can best be studied through the analysis of cultural heritage. The aim of the project is to explore tangible and intangible cultural heritage as a common European identity, showing how the value of Europe’s current and historical diversity is recognized in the creation of shared narratives that will be achieved through social cohesion. Cultural heritage raises questions that require a constant re-examination of relations in the current European political project.