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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.
EVENTS
EVENTS
11 May 2026
Voci di biblioteca 2026
Libri, scienza, attualità
Ilaria Pavan (LYNX) discusses with Arnaldo Greco and Pasquale Palmieri on their book "La nevicata del secolo. L'Italia nel 1985"
18 May 2026
Joint Advanced Seminar
Nadia Brindisi and Beatrice Lattanzi (CHMS)
Presentation of the PhD projects
Naemi Nittel (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg | IMT Honors Program)
Presentation of the Honors research project
21 May 2026
Silvio Ferri Lecture 2026
Andrea Augenti (Università di Bologna)
Fra tradizione e innovazione. Archeologia della città medievale
22 May 2026
Voci di biblioteca 2026
Libri, scienza, attualità
Linda Bertelli (LYNX) discusses with Marta Equi Pierazzini and Annarosa Buttarelli
on Carla Lonzi's book "Vai pure. Dialogo con Pietro Consagra"
29 May 2026
Voci di biblioteca 2026
Libri, scienza, attualità
Nicole Crescenzi and Angela D'Alise
(LYNX)
discuss with Divina Centore on her book
"Faraoni e fiori. La meraviglia dei giardini dell'antico Egitto"
NEWS
NEWS
The Call for Applications for the PhD Program in Cultural Systems 2026/2027 is open
Application deadline: 03 June 2026
See the details here
Visiting Professors at LYNX (April-May 2026 - EFC program)
Charles Walton (University of Warwick)
Mette Sandbye
(University of Copenhagen)
Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
(University of Amsterdam | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
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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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