Reinventing the Seaside: Blackpool in Context

Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 April 2009
Blackpool Winter Gardens
Blackpool Blackpool’s special history is rooted in its significance as the world’s first working-class seaside resort and its development into a unique centre of popular entertainment.
Today, still synonymous with fun and excitement, Blackpool constitutes an exceptional cultural landscape – a living, evolving expression of the industrial archaeology [...]

POETRY AND OPTIMISM IN THE CONSERVATION OF THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM

12th March 2009, 6.00pm
Centre for Sustainable Heritage, Room 106, Roberts Building 1st Floor – Malet Place, Corner with Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Guest Lecture delivered by:
Professor Michael Turner
UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Member of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee
The conservation of cultural heritage in general and of Jerusalem [...]

Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region

4th-7th April 2009, Amman, Jordan
International Conference – Under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya Bint Al Hassan

The conference will critically explore the major issues facing the MENA region with regard to the development of tourism and its relationships with heritage and culture, to draw upon best practice from international scholars and to help [...]