On September 8–9, the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference on Cultural Heritage: Innovative Approaches and Sustainable Development was held at Lviv Polytechnic. The event was organized by the academic staff of the Department of History, Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage, the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thanks to the mixed format, more than 40 participants took part in the event, 10 of them from abroad.
Among the colleagues from abroad, the institutions of the Republic of Poland were most numerously represented: University of Rzeszów, University of Warsaw, the Instytut Bezpieczeństwa Dziedzictwa in Krakow, the Muzeum II Wojny Światowej in Gdańsk and others. Representatives of Vilnius University, who the Department of History, Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage (HUEC) has been cooperating with for a long time, and Tamara Mykhailiak, private associate professor at the University of Naples, who was a visiting professor at the HUEC Department last academic year, also took part in the conference.
Participants from Ukraine represented a number of educational, scientific and museum institutions of our country.
Within the framework of the conference, Bartek Biront (Poland) presented the results of the project «Together for Ancestors: European Experience and Ukrainian Realities» (Wspólnie dla przodków: przyskiej przodków i pródzki ukraińskie), implemented in 2022–23. By the way, students and faculty of the HUEC Department volunteered to take part in it.
In addition, there was a presentation of books written by the faculty of the HUEC Department: the textbook «Management of Cultural Heritage» and the reference book «(Un)Known Graduates of Lviv Polytechnic». After that, Taras Dorotsky, bandura player, the descendant of Bohdan-Volodymyr Dorotsky, Lviv Polytechnic student, public activist and philanthropist, made a speech for the conference participants.
The conference contributed to the establishment of business relations between specialists in the field of cultural heritage and museology, as well as the exchange of modern scientific and applied information. And thanks to the financial support of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) – Teodota and Iwan Klym Memorial Endowment Fund, a collection of conference abstracts will soon be published.
