LYNX
Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage
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 Curricula in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (AMCH) and Museum Studies (MUST) programs 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.
EVENTS
4-6 December 2024
Iconography 2024 - Levels of Unreality, Metaverses and the Worlds of Images
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
10 February 2025
Prof. Elena Canadelli (University of Padua)
Science on Display: History, Narratives and Perspectives of a Forgotten Heritage
NEWS
23-26 June 2025
LYNX Summer School "Globalising the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Europe": the call for application is open!
San Francesco Complex, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
7 February 2025
Silvio La Paglia
"Memorabilia Pompeiana. Antichità da Pompei nelle collezioni europee (1748-1830)"
Book Presentation
IMT Library , Piazza San Ponziano, Lucca,
6:00 p.m.
Podcast series
The episodes of the new podcast series are being released. Visits to relevant places are being organized
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).