26 mai 2025, 15h30-17h30
Université Paris Nanterre, Bâtiment Max Weber, Salle 1, rez-de-chaussée

15h30 Introduction, Marta Severo, Dicen-IdF, Université Paris Nanterre

15h45 Céline Yunya Song, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Beyond Preservation: Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage
This talk explores how computational methods can transform the ways we engage with cultural heritage in the digital era. Moving beyond preservation, it highlights how tools such as video analytics, machine learning, and immersive storytelling can surface hidden narratives, mediate between grassroots and institutional representations, and foster inclusive cultural participation. Drawing on comparative case studies—including Douyin short videos and cross-cultural VR experiences—the presentation demonstrates how heritage can be understood as a dynamic, negotiable process shaped by both social structures and technological design.

16h30 Sabina Rosenbergová, University of Groningen
Transformation of Female Religious Spaces and Objects into Modern Museum Contexts
In the wake of European secularization, numerous female religious institutions were dissolved, their spaces repurposed as museums and their sacred objects reclassified as cultural heritage. This process not only displaced the material culture of women’s religious life but also contributed to the erasure of their histories from public memory. Based on my MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, this talk elaborates on how such transformations shaped the construction of heritage and the selective remembrance of women in modern museum contexts. Focusing on the Essen Cathedral Treasury, it explores how historical frameworks of classification and display obscure the original meanings of objects once embedded in women’s devotional and communal lives. Re-examining these collections becomes a first step toward reshaping inherited narratives, offering new possibilities for more inclusive and equitable forms of cultural remembrance.

17h15 Cloture

Céline Yunya Song
Prof. Céline Yunya Song is an award-winning scholar whose research spans global communication, digital media, cyber-psychology, and social media analytics. Educated across China, France, and the U.S., she brings a truly interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective to the study of communication in the digital age. A two-time Fulbright awardee, she has secured major research grants internationally and has collaborated across four continents. Prof. Song is currently the Award Chair of the International Chinese Communication Association. She is also the Editor of Communication & Society (TSSCI) and serves as Associate Editor for Computers in Human Behavior (SSCI) and Mass Communication and Society (SSCI). She has held leadership roles at several institutions, including Associate Dean of the School of Communication and Director of the AI and Media Research Lab at Hong Kong Baptist University. She was also a Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University.

Sabina Rosenbergová
Sabina is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Groningen, serving the multi-disciplinary faculty of Campus Fryslan. She is a laureate of the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her project “Transformation of Female Religious Spaces and Objects into Modern Museum Contexts” combines art history, museum, and heritage studies with a gender lens to investigate how historical spaces and artifacts are transformed when integrated into modern cultural institutions. The Center for Religion and Heritage, within the Faculty of Religion, Culture, and Society hosts her research at the University of Groningen. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from Sapienza University of Rome and Masaryk University in Brno in 2023, with a thesis offering a reappraisal of 10th-century art and culture in Rome. Sabina has a strong international research background, having contributed to projects across Italy, Czechia, France, and the USA. She was a researcher on the MSCA Horizon Project “Conques in the Global World,” a Pre-doc Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Art History – Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, and a visiting scholar at CUNY in New York.