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.

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EVENTS

4-6 December 2024

Iconography 2024 - Levels of Unreality, Metaverses and the Worlds of Images 

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Seminars

10 February 2025 

Prof. Elena Canadelli (University of Padua)

Science on Display: History, Narratives and Perspectives of a Forgotten Heritage

Seminars

17 February 2025



Presentation of the PhD project



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


4 Research Project Fellow positions

Deadline: 

17 February 2025

1:00 p.m.

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

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