Egregio Profesor Arquitecto:

Acuso recibo de sus letras y le agradezco por mantenerme al tanto del importante evento que tendrá lugar del 14 al 16 de junio de 2018:  XVI Foro Internacional ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’ , PATRIMONIO MUNDIAL Y CONOCIMIENTO. Bien sabe cuánto aprecio la importancia y transcendencia de esta iniciativa que mantiene una de las más nobles tradiciones culturales de vuestra tierra en la amada ciudad de Nápoles,  como especie de encuentro entre las ciudades marítimas del mundo.

Como quiera que ya estamos en el mes de diciembre, próximos a la fiesta de navidad y un nuevo año,   deseo hacerle llegar,  ilustre profesor y amigo,  mis más cálidas felicitaciones.

Tenga la certeza de mi eterna gratitud.

Sinceramente,

Prof. Eusebio Leal Spengler
Professor, Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana Presidente de Honor del Comité Cubano del ICOMOS, Cuba

Il giorno 5 dicembre 2017 in Roma presso l’Archivio Storico del Quirinale alle ore 16,30 il Prof. Carmine Gambardella, Cattedra UNESCO su Paesaggio, Beni Culturali e Governo del Territorio, ha presentato con Elena Calandra, Direttore Istituto centrale per l’Archeologia, Direzione Generale Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio, MIBACT, Franco Salvatori, Direttore Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società, Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Alessandro Viscogliosi, Professore Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, il libro di G. E. Cinque Le rappresentazioni planimetriche di Villa Adriana tra XVI e XVIII secolo: Ligorio, Contini, Kircher, Gondoin, Piranesi, edito dalla École française de Rome. Precedentemente hanno introdotto i lavori con i propri saluti Marina Giannetto, Sovrintendente Archivio Storico della Presidenza della Repubblica, Andrea Bruciati, Direttore Istituto autonomo ‘Villa Adriana e Villa d’Este’, MIBACT, Renato Gavasci, Direttore Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Nicola Laubry, Directeur des etudes pour l’Antiquite, École française de Rome, Giuseppe Proietti, Sindaco di Tivoli

Dear Prof. Gambardella,

Would you like me to have this posted in the ICCROM website? Please let me know, and I will forward it to our web master.

regards,

Joseph King
Unit Director, Sites Unit
ICCROM

We are pleased to announce the call for abstract for the XVI International Forum ‘Le Vie dei  Mercanti’, titled ‘WORLD HERITAGE AND KNOWLEGE. ‘Representation, Restoration, Redesign, Resilience’ to be held in Naples and  Capri (Italy) on June from 14^th to 16th, 2018: www.leviedeimercanti.it

We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or paper presentations for consideration by the standing Scientific Committee.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is  January  22th, 2018.

The most interesting 30 papers selected by the Scientific Committee, will be published in a special double number of ‘Dwelling on Earth’, A Class international magazine.

Best regards

The general chair, prof. Carmine Gambardella
UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance

The Scientific and Organizing Committees
Info: leviedeimercanti@benecon.it

Siamo lieti di annunciare la call for abstract per il XVI Forum Internazionale di Studi ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’ dal titolo ‘WORLD HERITAGE AND KNOWLEGE. ‘Representation, Restoration, Redesign, Resilience’ che si terrà a Napoli e Capri dal 14 al 16 giugno 2018: www.leviedeimercanti.it

Vi invitiamo a proporre un abstract per la presentazione orale o la sola pubblicazione negli Atti, che sarà valutato dal comitato scientifico internazionale.

La scadenza per l’invio degli abstract è il 22 gennaio 2018.

I 30 paper più interessanti selezionati dal Comitato Scientifico, saranno pubblicati in un numero speciale doppio di ‘Abitare la Terra’ rivista internazionale di Classe A.

I più cordiali saluti.

The general chair, prof. Carmine Gambardella
UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance

The Scientific and Organizing Committees
Info: leviedeimercanti@benecon.it

Organizer: BENECON (consortium of five Italian Universities: University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Pegaso University, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, University of Salerno, University of Sannio), UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance.

ISI Web of Science: indexing of the 2012 proceedings (X Forum), 2013 (XI Forum), 2014 (XII Forum), 2015 (XIII Forum), 2016 (XIV Forum), 2017(XV Forum under evaluation). .

Registration: At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the full rate (450 euros) before May 7th 2018. The full rate includes participation in the conference for one person, and: one copy of the Conference Proceedings (book and CD-ROM), one conference bag, coffee-breaks, lunches, one Gala Dinner.

There is a reduced rate of 305 euros for the only inscription, without participating at the Forum.

Topics: Heritage – Tangible and intangible dimensions – History – Culture – Collective Identity – Memory – Documentation – Management – Communication for Cultural Heritage – Architecture – Surveying – Representation – Modelling – Data Integration – Technology Platforms – Analysis – Diagnosis and Monitoring Techniques – Conservation – Restoration – Protection – Safety – Resilience Transformation Projects – Technologies – Materials – Cultural landscapes – Territorial Surveying – Landscape Projects – Environmental Monitoring – Government of the Territory – Sustainable Development

Report of the XV Forum: 550 authors, 300 papers accepted coming from 30 Countries: Albania, Benin, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, California, Chile, China, Cipro, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Malta, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia, Texas, Turkey.

https://en.unesco.org/news/audrey-azoulay-appointed-director-general-unesco

Dear Director General Audrey Azoulay,

I wish to warmly congratulate with you for your appointment as UNESCO Director General in my position of Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance at the Research Centre of Excellence for Cultural Heritage, Ecology and Economy in Italy, which is a Consortium of five Italian Universities: University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, University of Naples ‘Federico II’; Pegaso University, University of Salerno, University of Sannio (www.benecon.it).

I really hope to meet you in person at the Second Coordination Meeting with UNESCO category 2 institutes and centres (C2Cs) and UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks related to Culture on 23-24 November 2017 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. I would be honored to invite you in Naples and Capri, whenever you are available, to visit my Research Centre and UNESCO Chair. Since 2003 I organize the International Forum of Studies ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’ which focuses on World Heritage properties preservation and management. In 2018, its XVI edition is titled ‘World Heritage and Resilience’, under the patronage of the Forum UNESCO University and Heritage, the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, and the USA-Italy Fulbright Commission (www.leviedeimercanti.it).

Moreover, my UNESCO Chair is organizing a II Level Master Science, which focuses on UNESCO topics in cooperation with 20 Italian and international partners, which in the last years developed researches and operative projects in cooperation with BENECON Research Centre. Among them: Guardia di Finanza (Italian Financial Police);  EPU (European Polytechnical University) Bulgaria; the University of Malta; the Polytechnic University of Tirana (Albania); Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Center for Urban Policy Research (USA); the University of Miami (USA); and the Italian Universities of Trento, Perugia and Palermo.

Best congratulations and regards.
Carmine Gambardella
UNESCO Chair on Landscape,
Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance

3 November 2017. Tirana, Albania. Final Conference of the Airborne Remote Sensing Campaign to contrast the cannabis in Albania. Convention Guardia di Finanza (Italian Financial Policy) and Benecon UNESCO Chair. Participants: Marco Minniti, Interior Minister of Italy; Haki Cako, Head of the Police in Albania; Fatmir Xhafaj, Interior Minister of Albania;  Giorgio Toschi, General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza; Stefano Screpanti, General of the Guardia di Finanza; Paolo D’Ambola, Director of the Police Service of International Cooperation SCIP; Ambassadors representing the foreign countries in Albania. The Italian Minister Minniti, the General Toschi, the General D’Ambola, the Generale Screpanti, the Minister Xhafaj and the Head of the Police in Albania Cako, during their speeches, highlighted the importance of the research contribution in the Campaign of the BENECON Center of Competence, headquarter of the UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance.

24 October / 1 November 2017. Benecon – UNESCO Chair mission in China for scientific and research activities: Shanghai (Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Financial District, Oriental Art Center, Science and Technology Museum); and World Heritage properties of Hangzhou and Mont Wuyi. International Summit on Village Protection in Yuyan village. Lecture ‘Representation, preservation and restoration of two UNESCO properties in Italy: Pompeii and Cilento’ by Prof. Carmine Gambardella, President of the Benecon UNESCO Chair, Ph.D. Arch. Rosaria Parente and Ph.D. Arch. Alessandro Ciambrone. Memorandum of Understanding with the China National Academy of Fine Arts: joint organization of the XVI International Forum of Studies ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’ WORLD HERITAGE and RESILIENCE, Naples and Capri, June 2018.

24 October / 1 November 2017. Benecon – UNESCO Chair Mission in China.

Shanghai and World Heritage properties of Hangzhou and Mont Wuyi. International Summit on Village Protection in Yuyan village. Lecture ‘Representation, preservation and restoration of two UNESCO properties in Italy: Pompeii and Cilento’ by Prof. Carmine Gambardella, President of the Benecon UNESCO Chair, Ph.D. Arch. Rosaria Parente and Ph.D. Arch. Alessandro Ciambrone. Memorandum of Understanding with the China National Academy of Fine Arts: joint organization of the XVI International Forum of Studies ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’ WORLD HERITAGE and RESILIENCE, Naples and Capri, June 2018.