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LYNX is the Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage. It is a research unit of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, connected to the Curriculum in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS) within the PhD in Cultural Systems. Moreover, LYNX participates in the Phd program in Management of Digital Transformation (MDT) and contributes to the National PhD in Heritage Science.
LYNX promotes and carries out case study based research projects concerning the mechanisms of image production and their contextually specific reception and use. It does privilege projects that adopt multidisciplinary strategies of analysis.
NEWS
NEWS
Dr Nicole Crescenzi is among the winners of the 2025 Professor Carla Barbati Foundation Award for Cultural Heritage Studies
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Dr Emanuele Carlenzi will edit a book dedicated to the Photographic Archive of the Angelo Pezzana Foundation - FUORI!, among the winners of the "Strategia fotografia 2025," call
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Two additional PhD fellowships in "Cultural Systems"
Deadline: 12 January 2026
Discover the details here
Happy Birthday IMT!
IMT celebrates its first twenty years!
Discover IMT's mission in 10 keywords by Treccani
TG1 Sabaudia.mp4LYNX on National News
The new LYNX excavation project at the Villa di Domiziano on the national news - TG1 report by Felicita Pistilli
OUR RESEARCH THEMES
OUR RESEARCH THEMES
Role of Images, Objects and Spaces (Production, Contextual Reception, Uses, Tangible and Intangible Dimensions, from Antiquity onwards);
Image Tradition and Perception, Media (from Antiquity onwards, including Film Studies, Photography);
Difficult Heritage: Analysis, Management, Organization;
Digitization of Cultural Heritage;
Cultural Heritage Law and Globalization;
East and West (from Antiquity onwards).
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