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Conference: Panama City to their 500 years old: Heritage

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Dear Friends of Patrimonio Panamá:

 

Thursday 20 of November, 2014, Deputy National Historical Heritage of the National Institute of Culture (INAC), I gave a lecture entitled, “Panama City to their 500 years old: Heritage”, under the First Academic Day History, Anthropology and Tourism which was held at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Panama 19 until 21 this month.

For the link to the Call of the First Academic Day History, Anthropology and Tourism, click here.

This is the summary of my paper: “The significance of national heritage World Heritage is an honor and a challenge for the country, where they are in the balance perception of historical as well globalized economic asset to the demands of tourism and real estate development, and public perception of historical heritage in its capacity as a witness of the past of the nation and therefore their identities. Circumstances in national and world history caused profound changes in the official perception of what heritage, and spurred the formulation of laws and regulations for protection and management, especially in cases where it is exploitable as an economic good prominently, such as the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo and Casco Antiguo Panama City: both components of a world heritage places almost five centuries of existence that projects into a difficult future to predict.”

In my lecture, attended by distinguished anthropologists, Archaeologists, Panamanian historians and cultural managers, I detailed the current situation of the Old Town of Panama to UNESCO, as reflected in the various articles of this blog.

First Academic Day History, Anthropology and Tourism which was held at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Panama 19 until 21 of November, 2014.

First Academic Day History, Anthropology and Tourism which was held at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Panama 19 until 21 of November, 2014. Photos are courtesy of Clemente fine Marin, Coordinator of Archaeology of the Board of Panama Viejo.

 

Regards,

 

Katti Osorio Ugarte, Ph.D.

Encounter, The Southern Sea 500 years later: an interdisciplinary approach

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South Sea; University of Panama

On the framework of the anniversary of the sighting of the Southern Sea by the Spanish in September 1513, was held at the University of Panama the Encounter, “The Southern Sea 500 years later: an interdisciplinary approach”, and Salón 26 until 30 of August, 2013.

This Encounter is of particular importance because of its interdisciplinary approach on the sighting of the Southern Sea: http://www.up.ac.pa/PortalUp/MardelSur.htm

I participated on Tuesday 27 August with the paper, “Genesis of a World Heritage Property: The Southern Sea, and the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo and Historic District of Panama,” where I discoursed about the relationship of Panama City with the sea from its origin to its present as world heritage, and in this context I presented an interpretation of the Retrospective Statement of Outstanding Universal Value for the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo and Historic District of Panama, approved this year by the World Heritage Committee.

Abstract:

“Panama City was born from the need for the Spanish empire to found a port city that would serve as the basis for Spanish expansion in the New World, following the European discovery of the Southern Sea by the expedition led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Both events, the sighting of the Southern Sea by the Europeans in 1513 and the founding of Panama City in 1519 are inseparable facts. The geopolitical importance of Panama City earned its relocation at the place called "Site of the Ancón" in 1673, after the tragedy of piratical invasion that burned it to the ground in 1671. The relationship between Panama City and Southern Sea determined its form and function in both seats, as terminal city for strategic routes of maritime an trans-isthmian transit from the sixteenth century to the present day, promoting cultural and technological exchange, and giving rise to unique features that the State Parties under the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO, recognized that are of outstanding universal value, and that the property now called "Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo and Historic District of Panama", is the heritage of all human beings. The Historic District of Panama (Casco Antiguo) was inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO in 1997; the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo was added as an extension of the initial inscription of the year 2003. Thus, the exceptional importance of Panama, founded by the Southern Sea, transcended the regional scale and became global.”

Presently, the University of Panama shall publish the papers of this Encounter..