Focus on heritage with respect to contemporary times

Kolkata | Sunday | 18th August, 2019

Summary:

Kolkata: The Calcutta University has made an elaborate plan of viewing heritage in accordance with the contemporary times focusing upon core issues and approaches relating to the tangible and intangible, movable and immovable heritage. "The main effort will be to trace the development and positioning of heritage as a public enterprise and fountainhead of social values. Such platform would also be utilised for bringing heritage movement actors, custodians of popular and intangible traditions, and broader publics into conversation with academics," he added. But as it has been done in a segmented manner it has not been foregrounded in the way Public Humanities does. The DPR on the activities of the Public Humanities Centre as well as a Centre for Innovation and Societal Applications has already been prepared..