Institute for Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Macedonia, Skopje

on partnership with

MIRAS- Social Organization in Support of Studying of Cultural Heritage, Baku, Azerbaijan
University for Audio- Visual Arts “ESRA” - Skopje, Paris, New York
Centre for Scientific Research and Promotion of Culture “HAEMUS”, Skopje, Macedonia

Are organizing the

3rd International Conference
“Ohrid –Vodici, 2015”
- Ohrid, 17-18 January 2015

“Rethinking the Framework of Interdisciplinary cooperation between Cultural Heritage, Local Economic Development, Tourism and Media”

Over the past few years, a remarkable increase has occurred in the use of visual and digital techniques for the research, documentation, management, presentation and communication of cultural heritage. Printed, video and audio media, as well as “New Media” got a role of a main measures for preserving and affirming of cultural heritage, but and as a main tools for promoting of cultural heritage values as touristic products. This has drastically transformed the way we capture, store, process, represent and disseminate information.
Using of “old” and/or “new” media became a necessary tools in educational process related with anthropology, archaeology, history, art and other humanities and social sciences. Digital humanities, digital anthropology, 3-D archaeology and other interdisciplinary studies increased an interest among many scholars, researchers, students, museum workers, IT programmers, 3D (re)constructors etc.
The purpose of local economic development is to build up the economic capacity of a local area to improve its economic future and the quality of life for all. It is a process by which public, business and nongovernmental sector partners work collectively to create better conditions for economic growth and employment generation.
Local Economic Development, Cultural heritage, Media and Tourism have a lot of common contact points, interactions and complements. All fields are devoted on explanation and presentation of cultural values of society. Interdisciplinary approach among these realms is giving more qualitative results especially on touristic offers and creation of touristic products. This is extremely important in a process of indication and mapping of anthropogenic and other touristic attractions, as well as on presentation of cultural values through different types of media.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
We invite scholars, PhD and MA students, researchers and practitioners in anthropology/ethnology, tourism sciences, media, archaeology, history, art, history of art, philology, literature, folklore, ethnomusicology, architecture, museology, archiving, audio-visual arts, information sciences/ technologies, geography, sociology, psychology and all related fields to submit papers on any topic related to conference theme. Papers may reflect on a wide spectrum of issues related to cultural heritage, media and tourism. The conference is structured around a number of sub-themes that include - but are not limited to:
Protection and presentation of cultural heritage through media
Presentation of cultural heritage for tourism purposes
Economic impact from cultural heritage and tourism
Digitalization of cultural heritage as touristic products
Digitalization of collective memory
Cultural Heritage, Social Networks and “New Media”
Rural tourism and local economic development
Tourism and local economic development
E-libraries and e-learning in context of cultural heritage Economic Development, media and tourism
Intelligent description of cultural heritage content in interaction with media and tourism
GIS and spatial information management in cultural heritage, media and tourism
Virtual Heritage and Media
Digital reconstructions, 3D modelling of cultural heritage and touristic valorisation
Reproduction techniques and rapid prototyping in cultural heritage as touristic product
Multimedia, data management and archiving and their usage in media
Folklore, ethnomusicology, media and touristic valorisation

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME BOARD

Rubin Zemon Ph.D. (Institute for Socio-cultural Anthropology) Skopje, Macedonia
Samoil Malcheski Ph.D. (Institute for Socio-cultural Anthropology), Skopje, Macedonia
Fariz Khalili Ph.D. (MIRAS Social Organization in Support of Studying of Cultural Heritage) Baku, Azerbaijan
Misho Netkovski Ph.D. (University for Audio- Visual Arts/ ESRA) Skopje, Macedonia
Margarita Karamihova Ph.D. (University Ss. Cyril and Methodius), Veliko Trnovo, Bulgaria
Jasminka Simic Ph.D. (Radio-Television of Serbia), Belgrade, Serbia
Armanda Kodra Hysa Ph.D. (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art’s Studies) Tirana, Albania
Marcel Courtiade Ph.D. (INALCO- Paris), Paris, France
Svetlana Antova Ph.D. (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum) Sofia, Bulgaria
Nadia Cherepan M.A.(European Humanities University), Vilnius, Lithuania
Meli Shopi Ph.D. (University of Elbasan), Elbasan, Albania
Dejan Metodijeski Ph.D. (University Goce Delchev, Stip), Skopje, Macedonia

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE
Deadline for Application : 17 December 2014
Notification of Acceptance Decisions: 22 December 2014
Registration : 9 January 2015
Conference : 17-18 January 2015

SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS/PANELS
The congress is open to individual submissions for papers and proposals for panels. All applications for papers and panels must be sent to the e-mail: iscanth@gmail.com, by 17 December 2014. The papers accepted upon the assessment of the Program Board will be notified via email by 23 December 2014. Application for papers should content:
Title of the paper/panel
Abstract (in English only) not more than 300 words for individual papers, including the main argument and conclusions
Abstract (in English only) not more than 500 words for panel proposals, including abstracts of panel papers
Name and title of the author/s of the paper
Short bio of the author(s) of the paper, not more than one paragraph
E-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the author(s) of the paper.

The fee for posters is 30 Euros. The size for poster: 50x75

CONGRESS LANGUAGE
Congress language is both Macedonian and English.

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
All registered participants will be presented a certificate of attendance at the end of the conference.

CONFERENCE BOOKLET
All abstracts accepted to the congress will be published as a conference booklet.

VENUE
The conference will be held in Ohrid, Macedonia. Information about the exact premises will be given lather.

SCHEDULE
Congress will begin on 17 January 2015 and end on 19 January 2015.
On 17 January 2015, publication (Conference proceedings) from the 2nd Conference of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Media will be promoted and disseminated.

REGISTRATION
There are 2 types of conference fees:

1. Standard type of fee for amount of EUR 110
Standard conference fee include: accommodation for 2 nights (Bad & Breakfast), registration, conference materials (booklet of abstracts), welcome reception, lunch and dinner, snacks, Conference proceedings (publication of peer-viewed papers).

2. Reduced type of fee for amount of EUR 60
Reduced conference fee include: Registration, conference materials (booklet of abstracts), welcome reception, snacks and conference proceedings (publication of peer-viewed papers).

ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation costs will be covered by the participants. Organizing committee will organize accommodation and will cover accommodation costs for participants that will choose Standard type of registration fee. Detailed information on accommodation will be provided to the participants after their abstracts are accepted.

TRAVEL
Participants will be responsible for paying their travel expenses.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:
http://iscanthmk.blogspot.com/
The congress website will be updated regularly for the participants and attendants.

CONTACTS
Institute for Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Macedonia
Skopje, Macedonia
e-mail: iscanth@gmail.com

Contact persons:
Rubin Zemon Ph.D. - chair of the Program Board
zemon.rubin@gmail.com

Samoil Malcheski Ph.D. – Chair of the Organizing Committee
samoil.malcheski@gmail.com

Vasilka Disistrovska M.A. - Public Relations
dimitrovska@heamus.org.mk