Festivals and Heritage in Latin America

Dra. Fabiana Lopes da Cunha - Post-doctorate and Visiting Research Felow (2017), in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London under supervision of Camoes Professor David Treece. PhD and Master in Social History from the University of São Paulo (USP) where she also completed her bachelor's and undergraduate degrees in History. She has been teaching and researching at Paulista State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" since 2003, where she also coordinates a Center for Documentation and Memory (CEDOM) with the objective of preserving local and regional memory. She has experience in the area of History with emphasis on Brazilian History , mainly in the area of Cultural History during the imperial and republican period until the end of the Estado Novo. His themes of interest are linked to the Social History of Culture and Atlantic History, such as: Brazilian popular music, popular culture (parties), museums,diaspora and intangible heritage. In 2004 he published his first book "Da Marginalidade ao Estrelato: O Samba na Construção da Nacionalidade (1917-1945)", by Editora Annablume. He published several articles in scientific journals, chapters and books on the theme of his research.   She is part of the post-graduation program of the History course of the Paulista State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" -UNESP in the research line "Culture, Historiography and Heritage". She was a counselor at CONDEPHAAT between 2011 and 2014. She is leader of the Heritage research group, vice-leader of the History & Music research group and participates in the Identity Dialogues research group at King's College London. She was invited, as articulator of the Angra Doce Project in the State of São Paulo and representative of Paulista State University -UNESP, to participate in the Global Leaders Summit 2018 and the Brazil SDG Business Forum, during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly.Dr. Jorge Rabassa obtained his Licenciado and Doctor degrees in Geology at the School of Natural Sciences, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. He is a researcher with CONICET, the National Research Council of Argentina, at CADIC, Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, since 1986. He is presently the director of CADIC, the southernmost, multidisciplinary research center of the World with permanent scientific staff. He is also adjunct Full Professor of Geology at the Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego. He has been a lecturer in several Argentine universities and also the President of Comahue University, one of the Argentine Patagonian universities. He is a member of the Argentine Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Catalonian Academy of Sciences. He has been a Visiting Professor in several universities of the United States and Canada, as well as in various Western Europe countries, the Republic of SouthAfrica and China. His main research interests are geomorphology, ancient landscapes, long-term landscape evolution, and glacial and Quaternary studies. He has published over 150 scientific papers and book chapters, and edited 17 books and scientific journal special volumes. He has directed 15 doctoral dissertations and many graduation theses and is a member of the editorial board of several international journals. Until 2018 he was President of the Asociación Argentina de Geomorfología y Cuaternario. He is presently one of the Series Editors of the Springer Briefs in Earth System Sciences series and The Latin American Studies Book Series.

• Introduction.- Part I: Parties and Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 1. Atlantic Dialogues and Intangible Heritage: the celebration, the samba and the construction of a Brazilian community in London.- Chapter 2. Importing the spirit of Samba. Reflections on intangible heritage and the reproduction of the cultural expression of Samba outside of Brazil.- Chapter 3. Samba Schools in the Southern Border of Brazil: circuits and trans-local exchanges in Carnival cultures.- Chapter 4. Igor Sorriso:  a narrative about life experiences and developing a career through the Brazilian Carnival.- Chapter 5. Fado, samba and the interface between national identity, cultural heritage and tourism on both shores of the Atlantic Ocean.- Chapter 6. Religious celebrations and its safeguard public policies in Brazil: some directions.- Part II: Railway Heritage and Museums.- Chapter 7. Mankind and the cost of its becoming: development as a promoter of the heritage conservation (1960-1972).- Chapter 8. Sorocabana Station in Bauru: diagnosis for restoration.- Chapter 9. Guidelines for the musealization of railway assets in open air.- Chapter 10. Troops and “Tropeiros” in Southern Brazil: History, Memory and Heritage.- Part III: Archaeological Heritage and Tourism.- Chapter 11. "Invisible heritages": new technologies and the history of the Antarctic focus groups.- Chapter 12. Illicit trafficking in cultural goods: a genealogy of the concept and actions in contemporary Brazil.- Chapter 13. Heritage, spirituality and tourism: a Brazilian case study.- Part IV: Cultural Landscape and Tourism.- Chapter 14. Landscape and urban memory: some patrimonial discussions in Triana (Seville, Spain).- Chapter 15. Perception of the Cultural Landscape in Historical Centers.