Performance Studies & Cultural Heritage Lab

Vision and mission

The lab forms the association’s academic and research hub. Its work encompasses scholarly inquiry, field documentation and critical readings of performance and tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It connects the university with artistic practice through academic publishing and the association’s peer-reviewed journal.

Strategic objectives

• Undertake field-based and academic studies of oral heritage and popular performance forms.
• Provide critical and dramaturgical frameworks for the laboratories’ performances and artistic experiments.
• Publish a peer-reviewed scholarly journal and organise study days and national and international intellectual symposia.

Areas of work

• Anthropological and semiotic field research into heritage.
• Scholarly journal editing and academic publishing.
• Organising conferences, encounters and study days.