The UAB to host the First Artistic Heritage Campus Research Conference
On 2 October the Periodicals Room of the Humanities Library, located in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, will host the First Artistic Heritage Campus Research Conference, a meeting aimed at strengthening ties between the academic world and museum and heritage institutions.
The main goal of the conference is to promote synergies between the University and the organisations making up this network, inviting participating institutions to present their ongoing research projects and propose new lines of research related to the collections, which could be developed in the final degree projects (TFG) and final master theses (TFM) of the studies linked to the Campus.
The conference, aimed at undergraduate and master's students affiliated with the Artistic Heritage Campus network, will begin at 9:00 a.m. with a welcoming speech by Margarita Freixas Alàs, dean of the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and by Daniel Rico Camps, director of the Department of Art and Musicology. Carles Sánchez Márquez, director of the Campus, will then present the activities that are carried out.
The meeting is structured around three sessions with the participation of several directors and representatives of museums and institutions from across Catalonia: Mireia Rosich (Víctor Balaguer Library Museum, Vilanova i la Geltrú); Txema Romero (Museums of Sitges), Àfrica Tiñana, Bonaventura Bassegoda, and Francesc Fontbona (Museum of the Sant Jordi Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona); Xavier Caballé (Museum of Montserrat); Imma Serra and Marta Nuñez (Tomàs Balvey Museum Archive, Cardedeu); Gerard Cunill (Municipal Museum of Llívia); Tere Arau (Illa del Rei Hospital Foundation, Menorca); Pep Marès (Adhoc Cultura); Oriol Picas (Episcopal Museum of Vic); Damià Martínez (Renaissance Museum, Molins de Rei); Francesc Vilà (Museum of the Baroque in Catalonia, Manresa), and Blanca Montobbio and Nil Rider (Diocesan Museum of Barcelona). The sessions will be moderated by lecturers from the UAB Department of Art and Musicology: Ricard Bru, Carles Sánchez, Jaume Vidal, and Maria Garganté.
The Artistic Heritage Campus, which already brings together 21 museums and institutions from Barcelona, Girona, and Lleida, has established itself as a tool for knowledge transfer that makes university research resources available to the rest of the country. With this project, the UAB aims to promote awareness of Catalonia's tangible and intangible heritage and contribute to both its management and dissemination.
This first conference aims to lay the foundations for ongoing collaboration between the academic world and local museums in order to strengthen the role of the university as a driver of research and innovation in the service of culture and heritage.
Programme of the UAB's First Artistic Heritage Campus Research Conference