YOCOCU 2020

Iranian director of the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission at Persepolis World Cultural Heritage Site since 2005.

Associate Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, Shiraz University and Vice-Chancellor of the Shiraz University of Arts.

He has carried out several excavations in the province of Fars, focussing on the Pre-Islamic Historic periods, from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian ones.

In the frame of the activities of the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission since 2008 he has co-directed the project “From Palace to Town”, aiming at a better knowledge of the inhabited town which according to the sources was near the Imperial Citadel of Persepolis;

Since 2011 the same project is working on a monumental gate of the Early Achaemenid period discovered at Tol-e Ajori, 3.5 km to the West of Persepolis.

He has published four monographs and several articles on the archaeology and art of Pre-Islamic Iran.

Alessandro Rizzi is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Milano (Italy), teaching Multimedia, Colorimetry and Film restoration.
He is doing research since 1990 in the field of digital imaging with a particular interest on color, visualization, photography, HDR, VR and on the perceptual issues related to digital imaging, interfaces and lighting.
He is the head of the MIPS Lab at the Department of Computer Science. He has been one of the founders of the Italian Color Group, Secretary of CIE Division 8, IS&T Fellow and Vice President. In 2015 he received the Davies medal from the Royal Photographic Society.
He is co-chair of the IS&T Conference “Color Imaging: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy and Applications”, Topical Editor for “Applied Color Science” of the Journal of Optical Society of America A, Associate Editor of Journal of Electronic Imaging, member of several program committees of conferences related to color and digital imaging.

Director of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia. Kaja Širok is a research fellow at the Faculty of Arts (Department for Sociology), University of Ljubljana and the director of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia. An historian by training, her PhD in cultural studies focused on contested memories and identity making in the border area between Italy and Slovenia. Her current research addresses museums and memory studies, with special attention paid to the creation of national historical narratives related to identity formation, contested memories, revisionism and (re)interpretations of history. She has published several articles on the memorialisation of the past in museum exhibitions, memory and visual culture, and contested histories vs. dominant historical narratives. She is an active member of the Academic Committee of the House of European History in Brussels, chair of ICOM Slovenia and a board member of ICMEMO.

Daniela Ferro (YOCOCU- Sapienza, University of Rome, CNR). Expert in the
ancient goldsmith technologies, using the Electron Scanning Microscopy
has looked the micro aspects of numerous important cultural heritage in the filed of Ceramics and of Metallurgy

Antonio Rava was born in Turin on November 12, 1952, he was graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Torino and was graduated as a Restorer at the Central Institute of Restoration in Rome. Since 1979 he addressed his attention to contemporary art conservation at New York University, Department of Conservation with a Fullbright scholarship, since then he worked and hold research for Italian and foreign institutions responsible for conservation.

It ‘was responsible for the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna in Turin during the European project INCCA (International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art) and for several years he taught restoration of contemporary art for the University of Turin at the Center conservation and Restoration “La Venaria Reale”.

Title of lecture: “Know-how and Knowledge: The Practitioner’s Approach in Experimental Archaeology”

David Loepp was born in 1951 and grew up in Wyoming. In 1969 he moved to Paris. Three years later he moved to Sicily where he apprenticed as a goldsmith. Initially interested in Etruscan jewelry, he specialized in ancient and traditional technology. In 1996 he opened a workshop in Rome. He has worked in experimental archaeology for the past two decades in collaboration with the University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy’s National Research Council and the Antiquitates Center for Experimental Archaeology in Civitella Cesa. He has served as a consultant on experimental archaeology projects and worked as an external thesis advisor.

Alessandra Bonazza is reponsible for the Research Unit “Impact on
Environment, Cultural Heritage and Health” at CNR-ISAC and is Professor
of Environmental Impact on Materials, Deterioration and Ageing at the
University of Bologna. Principal investigator in several EC Projects,
she recently coordinated the Study funded by DG-EAC “Safeguarding
Cultural Heritage from Natural and Man-Made Disasters” and the Interreg
Central Europe ProteCHt2save. She is currently the project manager of
the Interreg Central Europe STRENCH (STRENgthening resilience of
Cultural Heritage at risk in a changing environment
through proactive transnational cooperation) and member of the
"Copernicus Cultural Heritage Task Force". Her academic background is
geology, though she has worked in the field of heritage science for her
entire career moving from building material characterization to
evaluation of pollution and climate impact on monuments and
archaeological sites. She is particularly interested in resilience and
adaptation of cultural heritage and landscape to climate changes and
environmental compatibility and durability of materials in restoration.