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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

TICCIH - the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage – is hereby inviting you to its 19th congress under the theme “Heritage in action: Legacies of industry in future making” in Kiruna, August 25 – 30, 2025. We invite interested researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for conference sessions.

THE THEME

The TICCIH 2025 congress focuses on tensions and controversies surrounding industrial heritage and its relation to wider tensions in present day society. It explores how we think about the past and about the future in the present, and how we construct historical narratives to connect the two, attach them to built environments and artefacts, in order to get where we want to go. It is a theme that addresses key global issues connected to the UN sustainability goals, and the goal conflicts emerging between them, but also pathways to bridging tensions through heritage. The theme also includes the issue of how we can work with contemporary industries as heritage and the heritage of the future.

In addition to the overall theme there are eleven subthemes, ten thematic and one open. Choose one of the subthemes based on what suits your paper best:

  1. Industrial Heritage and Traces of Colonialism
  2. Heritage in Motion in Time and Space
  3. Industrial Heritage and a Sustainable Future
  4. Who’s Heritage – Inclusion or Exclusion?
  5. Post Industrial Heritage – For Whom?
  6. Action For a New Generation
  7. Industrial Heritage in Popular Culture – Dystopias or utopias.
  8. Heritage at Risk
  9. AI – Friend or Foe?
  10. Nominating and Managing industrial World Heritage Sites
  11. Open Themes

You can also choose to attach your presentation to one of the submitted sessions (you are required to do so if you are already part of a submitted session). This is optional. If you do not choose a specific session you will, if accepted, be placed in as session in one of the subthemes presented above. If you want to participate in a specific session, please choose the session name in the designated box when you submit your paper. Just follow the instructions, it is done in the end of the submission.

You find the submitted session proposals here

Please note - there is no guarantee that submitted sessions or individual papers will be accepted. If you happen to submit your paper to a session that will not be accepted, and your paper is accepted, your presentation will be placed in another suitable session. Likewise, if your paper do not meet the scientific requirements it will be rejected even though you might be part of a submitted session proposal.

SUBMISSION
Submit your paper abstract of no more than 250 words describing the objectives/topic of your paper. You can also attach one picture, figure, or table (png/jpg). Every submission also needs to attach a short bio of the presenter (in most cases the person or persons submitting the session), in total no more than 100 words.

Deadline of call for papers: December 31, 2024

SAVE THE DATES!

Congress: August 25 – 30, 2025.
Call for papers: November 1 - December 31, 2024.
Registration opens February, 2025.