Cultural Landscape: Content, Perception, Transformation. The Baltic States in European Garden Culture
Homburg Talks of the Böckler-Mare-Balticum Foundation – International academic conference in cooperation with the Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg, and the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga.
Programme: Homburg Talks 2019
Location: Turaida Museum and Riga, Latvian Academy of Sciences
Date: 14–17 September 2019
Conference report on the IFZO website, Greifswald, research area “On the Present of Cultural Heritage” (Dr Antje Kempe):
German version:
https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/institute/einrichtungen/ifzo/forschungsbereiche/zur-gegenwart-des-kulturellen-erbes/
English version:
https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/en/departments/facilities-organisations/ifzo/research-groups/the-topicality-of-cultural-heritage/
The low level of awareness of historical gardens and parks in the Baltic region among experts in Germany and Western Europe contrasts with the large number of garden and park ensembles in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Although numerous individual studies exist (mostly in national languages), links to Western European scholarship are only weakly developed. Scientific exchange within the Baltic States also needs to be intensified, and connections to garden art in Russia and Poland should be critically examined. Our cooperative event on the art and cultural history of gardens and parks in the Baltic region (Turaida/Riga, 14–17 September 2019, with a second event in 2020 in Bad Homburg) aims to address these gaps and strengthen mutual perception and academic cooperation through a multilateral exchange of experts from art and cultural history, landscape planning, garden architecture and heritage conservation. The conference focuses on the multi-perspective and interdisciplinary research and description of the garden cultural heritage in the Baltic region and on the question of its interactions and entanglements with developments in Western Europe since the late 18th century.