Minutes October 19, 2010

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Round of introductions

After a general welcome note to the seminar participants, the teachers were asked to localise themselves on the world map and to shortly introduce themselves.

Seminar structure and contents

In the following, Doris explained the background of the seminar as well as the contents of the 3 different blocks. Then Heike gave an outlook for a possible continuation of the seminar with block IV and showed a scheme of the overall seminar structure which is illustrated in detail under Course schedule.

Guest lectures

The session continued with a guest lectures by Dóra Drexler, Corvinus University / Hungary, dealing with

• differing (incomplete) definitions of 'landscape',
• the perception of landscape by people
• the idea of space and place according to 'shaped' land
• the perception and conception of values attached

These are the participant's contributions:

The second lecture was held by Galen Newman, Clemson Universiy / USA, illustrating

• the origin of 'cultural landscape' as an academic term
• the concept, definitin and categories of cultral landscapes according the the World Heritage Committee
• the overall academic opinion

These are the participant's contributions:

Both presentations are downloadable from the password-protected Moodle page via the link below, the password has been given to the seminar participants per e-mail.

Dóra Drexler: [ Cultural Landscapes:] Preparing for the 2010 ECLAS Conference in Istanbul

Galen Newman: [ Cultural Landscapes:] Preparing for the 2010 ECLAS Conference in Istanbul

Next steps

After these guest lectures, Heike explained the next steps according to Assignment 1 and reminded the participants to register in the Seminar WIKI with full name as soon as possible in order to be able to upload and edit their contributions.

Questions / Answers

A short questions / answers round proved that students had basically understood the next steps. In future, students are kindly asked to use the respective discussion section of the assignments to ask questions. These sections will be checked on a regular basis.

Lecture Recording

Please follow this link for listening to the seminar recording:

• [ Recording October 19, 2010]

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