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• 15 mar 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Social Policy in Europe after the 2008 crisis

  15th Annual European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) Conference

  The central theme for the event will be Social Policy in Europe after the 2008 crisis, and it will gather researchers from many countries and different areas of expertise. The European Social Model can play a central role in countering emergent social and economic problems while providing room for social cohesion and European reconstruction.

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• 20 fév 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Intangibility Matters

  International Conference on the values of tangible heritage

  Tangible heritage is the support of some of the most relevant and perennial values of Mankind. It connects us with History, projects us to past environments and to lost cultural contexts, includes landmarks of our identity and constitutes a relevant economic asset. Therefore tangible heritage has intangible aspects inextricably associated to it and when tangible heritage is addressed, intangibility matters. Conservation of tangible heritage is a cultural act with the value approach as a leading concept. The protection statutes, the arguments used to sustain the protection policies, the management options and definition of priorities, the allocation of resources and the uses of heritage assets are intimately connected and dependent on values, bringing to focus the intangible side of their nature.

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