Presenters and abstracts

Festival of Walks and Maribor is the Future: Good practices of local tourism
Katja Beck Kos (Slovenia) with Jure Golež, Barbara Izlakar
55 min presentation

One rock can tell more than a geological map: Geodiversity and interpretation in Geopark Karavanke
Mojca Bedjanič (Slovenia) with Lenka Stermecki, Darja Komar, Gerald Hartmann, Martin Vernik, Aljoša Šafran, Simona Kaligarič
25 min presentation

Live interpretation as a tool for presenting heritage from diverse aspects
Evá Birkás (Hungary)
25 min presentation

Value your visitor!
Árpád Bőczén (Hungary)
25 min presentation

Interpretive apps for diversity
Anna Chatel-Messer (Germany)
25 min presentation

Diverse situations, diverse solutions: Examples of contemporary challenges in interpretation planning
Susan Cross (UK)
55 min presentation

Embracing change, acknowledging fear: Interpreting heritage in flux in an age of migration
Nicole Deufel (Germany)
55 min presentation

Karst heritage in Slovenia and Croatia: Development of sustainable tourism in the karst landscape
Mirna Draženović (Croatia) with Aleš Smrekar
25 min presentation

Western Balkans cultural routes – The awakening of heritage
Milena Filipovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
25 min presentation

“… I feel conflicted.” Public perceptions of the British Museum
Stuart Frost (UK)
25 min presentation

You can engage with diversity, but does diversity engage with you?
Michael H Glen (UK)
25 min presentation

Whose heritage is in this white cube? Travelling with Baš-Čelik to Gulliver and back
Selma Harrington (UK)
25 min presentation

Overlapping spaces: Interpreting Jewish tradition in Budapest
Andrea Hübner (Hungary)
25 min presentation

Norman Sicily, the Cappella Palatina, and the Palimpsest: Interpreting transculturality over time
Emily Hyatt (Germany)
25 min presentation

Multicultural policies and heritage in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic: The case of Mardin
Ipek Karaoglu Koksalan (Turkey) with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Serin
25 min presentation

Improving interpretive messaging and planning for diversity
David Ketz (USA)
25 min presentation

The four truths of reconciliation through interpretation
Anne Ketz (USA)
25 min presentation

Heritage literacy through alternative education and public archaeology: A Philippine perspective
Andrea Natasha Kintanar (Philippines)
25 min presentation

Belarussian ‘Miastechka’ as a multicultural melting pot
Valeria Klitsounova (Belarus)
25 min presentation

Early stages of the museum: Cultural programming for social catharsis
Madison Leeson (Greece) with Antonio Núñez Martín
25 min presentation

How can Heritage Interpretation foster social cohesion in diverse societies?
Patrick Lehnes (Germany) with Peter Seccombe (UK)
1h 25 min interactive workshop

Building a heritage interpretive network across diverse cultures – Bringing interpretation to Siberia
Chuck Lennox (USA) with Svetlana Kuklina & Elena Weber
55 min presentation

The Roman Frontier today and yesterday – the Living Wall, Roman Frontier Gallery in Carlisle, UK
Nigel Mills (UK)
55 min presentation

The role of storytelling: What should a Transylvanian destination count on?
Florin Nechita (Romania) with Alin Puiu, Adina Nicoleta Candrea
25 min presentation

Sharing Stories: Increasing ethnic minority participation in European Heritage Days
Jennifer Novotny (UK)
25 min presentation

Disability and the exhibitionary complex: The sight of difference
Jenny Anghelikie Papasotiriou (Greece)
1h 25 min interactive workshop

Engaging biodiversity with rural production – Integrating rural production in biodiversity
Evangelos Pappas (Greece) with Eleni Vretzaki, Evi Alexandropoulou, Andreas Panitsas
25 min presentation

Journey to the Beginnings: Moving forward while reaching the past
Bama Petrányi (Hungary) with Árpád Bőczén
25 min presentation

Ottoman architecture on three continents: Power, treasure and architecture
Zafer Sagdic (Turkey) with Professor Nur Urfalioglu, Melike Ozhan
25 min presentation

The railway as cultural heritage of Eskişehir, Turkey, and its urban regeneration as a recreation area
Zafer Sagdic (Turkey) with Professor Nur Urfalioglu, L. Sezgin Bilgin
25 min presentation

The border triangle of the Alps-Adriatic region – where natural and cultural heritage collide
Lisa Schmied (Austria) with Lisa Wolf, Anna Kovarovics
25 min presentation

Once upon a time – universal concepts and diversity in storytelling
Janja Sivec (Slovenia)
1h 25 min interactive workshop

Intrepreting industrial heritage: The case of Pappas' Mill Wheat & Flour Museum
Evgenia Stavraki (Greece)
25 min presentation

Widening diversity of natural and wo*man-made hazards: Challenge to ESD and transformation(-related) interpretation
Michael Strecker (Germany)
25 min presentation

Geo-visualisation of future-abilities and transformation initiatives: The UN SDGs as applied approach
Michael Strecker (Germany) with Lars Wohlers (?)
1h 25 min interactive workshop

Improvising with diversity: Parallels and cross-fertilisations between biological and cultural spheres
Michael Strecker (Germany) with Gabriele BERBERICH (?)
55 min presentation

A survey of cultural monuments in Albania: (Post)socialism’s effects on religious material diversity
Inesa Sulaj (Albania) with Kailey Rocker
25 min presentation

Urban regeneration of cultural heritage sites of Kayseri, Turkey
Nur Urfalioglu (Turkey) with Zafer Sagdic, Sezgin Bilgin
25 min presentation

It’s complicated: Negotiating the diverse needs of stakeholders at living religious heritage sites
Katelyn Williams (Germany) with Clara Rellensmann
1h 25 min interactive workshop