Materiały międzynarodowej konferencji zorganizowanej w czerwcu 2001 roku, stanowiącej główny akcent obchodów dziesięciolecia MCK. Teksty zamieszczone w tomie dotyczą kilku bloków problemowych, wokół których toczyły się obrady, m.in.: znaczenia pojęcia „Europa Środkowa” u progu XXI wieku; mitów i stereotypów odnoszących się zarówno do dziejów, jak i przyszłości tej części kontynentu; perspektyw integracji europejskiej; edukacji na rzecz dziedzictwa kulturowego; a także międzynarodowej współpracy w zakresie jego ochrony.
Spis treści
Jacek Purchla, Central Europe – A New Dimension of Heritage
Stefan Meller, Address by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Cultural Centre
Central Europe – the End or a New Beginning?
Emil Brix, The Future of Central Europe
Antoni Podraza, How Should We Understand the Term „Central Europe” at the turn of the 21st Century?
Henryk Samsonowicz, Family Member or Unwanted Child? Values Contributed to the European Heritage by the Countries of Central Europe
Piotr Wandycz, Myths, Stereotypes and Complexes in the History of Eastern and Central Europe
Csaba G. Kiss, Places of Common Memory
Shlomo Avineri, The Changing Meaning of Central Europe: A View from Jerusalem
Piotr Nowina-Konopka, From the Jagiellonian Union to the European Union
Mariusz Sielski, The Union of Lublin as a European Project
A New Dimension of Heritage
Erhard Busek, Heritage and the Future of Europe
Jan Kieniewicz, Standing at the Door. Reading the Heritage and Choosing the Affiliation
Joseph Rykwert, A Continent as a Museum
Lester Borley, To See Ourselves as Others See Us: Reflections on Cultural Identity
Gregory J. Ashworth, Paradigms and Paradoxes in Planning the Past
Giorgio Piccinato, Heritage Planning Around the World: Opportunities, Threats and Contradictions
Andrzej Tomaszewski, Central Europe: Cultural Property and Cultural Heritage
Aleksander Fedoruk, The Common Roads of a Common Legacy
Miroslav Baše, New Dimensions in Heritage Perception
Jelka Pirkovič, Architectural Heritage of the 19th Century – Revisited
Education for Heritage
Rupert Graf Strachwitz, Education for Heritage
Zdzisław Mach, Shaping the Understanding of Cultural Pluralism in Education for a United Europe
Robert Picht, Towards a New Renaissance? Tradition and the Educational Challenges of Globalisation
Juliusz Braun, National Identity in a World of Global Media
Helena Vaz da Silva, Educate to What World, to What Heritage?
Jaroslav Kilián, Education: An Effective Tol in Heritage Preservation
Michał Jagiełło, Periphery or Borderland
Jacek Woźniakowski, A Footnote to Some Problems of Education
Czesław Robotycki, Comparative Study and Local Consciousness as an Element of Regional Education
Stanisław Obirek, The Ambivalent Potential of Religions in Central Europe
Index of names
Biographical notes