HERITAGE 4 CARE / CARE 4 HERITAGE International Online Seminar Series | Call for Contributions
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte announces HERITAGE 4 CARE / CARE 4 HERITAGE, a new international online seminar series coordinated by researchers Giulia De Lucia and Rolando Volzone, dedicated to exploring the role of care in the preservation, transformation, and management of architectural and cultural heritage.
Call for contributions
The call is open to PhD candidates, researchers at all career stages, and practitioners working in heritage, architecture, landscape, and related social sciences. Applicants are invited to submit a presentation title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a short biography of up to 200 words.
Selected contributions will be considered for publication in a special issue of an indexed academic journal, planned for 2028, subject to double-blind peer review.
Submission deadline: 7 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 1 February 2027
Submit your proposal: https://forms.gle/a8UdfbpnFrN4gUd26
Scientific coordination: Giulia De Lucia and Rolando Volzone (DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte).
Further information: Giulia.DeLucia@iscte-iul.pt | Rolando_Volzone@iscte-iul.pt
The full call for contributions, including the seminar structure, Scientific Committee, and submission guidelines, is available in the accompanying document here:
Supporting document:
About the project:
What does it mean to care for heritage, and who takes responsibility for its future?
Heritage is sustained through more than formal conservation policies and institutional protection. Everyday maintenance, community initiatives, informal knowledge, and social relationships contribute to how places are valued, used, and transformed over time. Yet these practices often remain overlooked within established heritage frameworks.
Starting from this perspective, the seminar series invites researchers and practitioners to examine care as a social practice, a matter of governance, a question of recognition and inequality, and a responsibility towards future generations.
Four seminars, four perspectives on heritage care
Organised quarterly, the series comprises four thematic online seminars:
Care as Practice – Everyday heritage-making beyond institutions
Care, Power, and Governance – Regulating, organising, and contesting heritage care
Care, Belonging, and Social Difference – Recognition, identity, and unequal care
Care for the Future – Responsibility, sustainability, and intergenerational ethics
Each 90-minute seminar will combine research presentations, a practical case study (showcase), and an open discussion, encouraging dialogue between academic research and experiences from the field.
The initiative brings together an international Scientific Committee and welcomes contributions from different geographical and disciplinary contexts.