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.

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

Seasonal Schools

23-26 June 2025

LYNX Summer School "Globalising the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Europe"

San Francesco Complex, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Outreach

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;