Saint-Louis, Jan 23 (APS) – Conservation is at the heart of heritage professions, declared Thursday, Professor Abdoul Sow, director of the Senegal Research and Documentation Center (CRDS), an institute attached to the Gaston Berger University (UGB) of Saint-Louis.
“Conservation is at the heart of heritage professions and we cannot transmit what we have not preserved,” said Mr. Sow, also a teacher-researcher at the UFR CRAC.
He was speaking on the sidelines of the opening of a three-day international conference on ”Situated Conservation”, organized by the CRDS in partnership with the University of Vienna (Austria) and the Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Senegal .
This conference, he said, was also organized to pay tribute to the former director of the CRDS, Fatima Fall Niang, who worked a lot on this subject.
He magnified the fruitful partnership between the UGB and the University of Vienna where “rector Magatte Ndiaye had defended his thesis”.
The director appreciated the attachment of the CRDS to the UGB. “These two entities, he clarified, work on extremely related themes.”
The former director of the CRDS, Fatima Fall, insisted on the importance of exchanges in the heritage sector where I contributed to the achievement of certain objectives.
-She cited, among other things, the inclusion of the island of Saint-Louis on the world heritage list in 2000, of “Thiébou dieune”, in 2021 and the writing of a book on this dish which was awarded an award. , in 2023.
Ms. Niang invited the new authorities to communicate a lot about these efforts so that they do not come to naught and to maintain this place of choice on the world heritage list.
Noémie Etienne, teacher at the University of Vienna, welcomed the holding of this workshop, specifying that the idea was born from her meeting with Fatima Fall Niang.
Other activities are planned during these three days, including a major tribute ceremony to Fatima Fall Niang, a lady who devoted her career to the CRDS.
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