Strategies For Protection And Management Of Archaeological Heritage In Poland

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

This course addresses issues related to strategies of protection of archaeological monuments and heritage in Poland, analyzed in the broader European context. It presents legal framework of protection of archaeological monuments in the historical perspective. During the course students will be familiarized with legislative documents regulating the protection of cultural and archaeological heritage in Poland. They will be acquainted with conventions, regulations and acts as well as with organizational structures and bodies responsible for the protection of cultural (archaeological) heritage. During the course also issues of the role of archaeological heritage in the local development, archaeological heritage stakeholders and frameworks of dissemination of archaeological heritage sites will be discussed. The course objectives is to provide students with the knowledge of legal system defining rules and practice in the domain of protection and management of archaeological heritage in Poland in a historical perspective as well as political, social, and economic context of changes in these regulations.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

No

Syllabus

Week 1. Main concepts and notions: a monument, heritage (in broader and narrow sense), cultural landscape etc.

Week 2. The protection of archaeological heritage in Poland until 1989.

Week 3. Heritage and transformation in Poland after 1989.

Week 4. Conventions related to protection of heritage, including archaeological heritage

Week 5. Heritage and local development: towards a sustainable development.

Week 6. Main challenges and threats to protection archaeological heritage in Poland.

Week 7. The legal frameworks of dissemination of archaeological heritage sites.

Week 8. Discussion.

Reading list

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Carman J. 2015. Archaeological resource management: an international perspective, Cambridge.
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Kobyliński Z. 2000. Protection of the European archaeological heritage: current problems and perspectives. Archaeologial Polona 38, 33-42.
Kobyliński Z. 2008. Protection, maintenance and enhancement of cultural landscapes in changing social, political and economical reality in Poland. In Landscapes under pressure. Theory and practice of cultural heritage research and preservation, Springer, 213-242.
Kobyliński, 2010. Contemporary archaeological heritage management: conflicts between research, preservation and presentation. In Conservation and preservation. Interactions between theory and practice, M. Falser, W. Lipp, A. Tomaszewski (eds.), Firenze, 143-157.
Kobyliński 2013. Cultural heritage: values and ownership. In Counterpoint: essays in archaeology and heritage studies in honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen, S. Bergerbrant, S. Sabatini (eds.), Oxford, 719-724.
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Purchla J. 2008. Heritage and transformation, Kraków.
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