This year's edition of the Heritage Forum of Central Europe is entitled 'The Limits of Heritage'. The Forum is a continuation of the first meeting organised under this name, which was inaugurated in 2011. The meeting confirmed the need for dialogue and exchange of experiences regarding cultural heritage in the Visegrad Group countries and outside it.

The problems discussed at the Forum will include contemporary heritage issues, analysed both in the Central European and the global context. Central Europe / V4 Cultural Heritage Experts’ Working Group will serve as a starting point for wider considerations. This should make the programme of the Forum interesting not only for people from the region and experts on its heritage but also to a wider international community preoccupied with heritage as a whole. Particular sessions should be geographically varied – some papers should regard the V4 and while others should be concerned with heritage on a global scale (comparative studies, international cases which may provide a lesson for Central Europe). The Forum will be held under the Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group.

The conference will be shaped around the following subject matters: the limits of heritage; management of large-scale cultural heritage properties; heritage and politics; how to sell heritage; attractive cities – the role of heritage; dissonant heritage; intangible cultural heritage.

Call for Speakers
Speakers of the forthcoming Forum will be selected in the call for papers procedure. Researchers, professionals and postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of maximum 300 words by 10 February 2013 to the Forum Secretariat at heritageforum@mck.krakow.pl. The conference will result in a peer-reviewed (academic) publication.

The Forum is organised by the International Cultural Centre in Krakow and will be held under the Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group. The Forum is organized under the auspices of the V4 Cultural Heritage Experts’ Working Group, comprising:

• Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Cultural Heritage Department, Prague
• Gyula Forster National Centre for Cultural Heritage Management, Budapest
• International Cultural Centre, Krakow; and
• Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava.

For more information, please contact:
Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury - International Cultural Centre
Rynek Głowny 25
31-008 Krakow, Poland
tel.: +48 12 42 42 804
fax: +48 12 42 17 844
e-mail: heritageforum@mck.krakow.pl; www.mck.krakow.pl

The official conference website can be found here.