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Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas

Maria Gravari-Barbas is professor of cultural and social geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urban Design and a PhD in Geography and Planning. She was Fellow at the Urban Program of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. Since 2008 she is the Director of the EIREST, a multidisciplinary research team dedicated to tourism and heritage studies. Since 2009 she is the director of the UNESCO Chair “Tourism, Culture, Development” and the coordinator of the UNITWIN network “Culture, Tourism, Development” bringing together 30 universities around the world (including 3 UNA Europa universities: Bologna, KUL and UCM. She is expert for local development at the UNESCO WH Preah Vihear temple, Cambodia. Maria is the chief editor of Via Tourism Journal, an open, interdisciplinary and multilingual journal (7 languages) dedicated to Tourism studies (https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/). She is the author of several books and papers related to Tourism, Culture and Heritage with special focus on gentrification, tourismification and heritagization of urban spaces; World Heritage; Tourism and Geographical imaginaries; Tourism, authenticity and simulacra.

Lecturer Sébastien Jacquot

Sébastien Jacquot is a lecturer (Maître de conférences) in geography at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (IREST). He is the director of IREST (Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes Supérieures en Tourisme). He is a member of the EA EIREST interdisciplinary research team in tourism, and an associate member of the UMR PRODIG. He is co-director of the Heritage Working Group of the Labex Dynamite (Cluster of Excellence, Territorial and Spatial Dynamics), member of the UNITWIN network and of the UNESCO Chair “Culture, Tourism, Development” (U. Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne). His research on social and urban geography focuses on heritage policies, World Heritage and intangible heritage, tourism and digital social networks, tourism observation, metropolitan tourism, heritage from below. He has carried out surveys on remembrance tourism, wine tourism, links between informality and tourism. He did fieldworks in France, Italy, United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cameroon.

Postdoctoral Researcher Isidora Stanković

Isidora Stanković, PhD, is a post-doctoral manager of the Una Europa Self-Steering Committee in Cultural Heritage and a researcher at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

After undergraduate studies of Art History (2011) at the University of Belgrade and MA (2012) at the same department (specialization: Museology and Heritology), Isidora obtained her PhD (2019) in the joint supervision between the aforementioned university and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (specialization: Heritage and Museum Studies). Her thesis topic tackled Heritagization of the Marais Neighbourhood in Paris, 20^th-21^st Century: Actors, Challenges and Representations, focusing on interplay between public policies, urban changes and civil society initiatives. Areas of her research interest include the questions of heritagization, urban heritage, relations between public policies and civil society initiatives when it comes to heritage preservation.

During her studies, Isidora received several Serbian scholarships, French government scholarship for the Joint PhD and was awarded the best student of the Art History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy – University of Belgrade (2012).

From 2011 to 2014, she was a teaching associate on the courses Introduction to Heritage Studies and Heritology at the Faculty of Philosophy – University of Belgrade. She collaborated on different national & international research projects, among which, Horizon 2020 project Cultural Base. Social Platform on Cultural Heritage and European Identities, as a member of Consortium, research assistant and project manager. Since 2012, she is an author and a collaborator on different projects of Europa Nostra Serbia.