Programme

Arrival of participants & and Visit Ceske Budejovice

20:00 — 22:00

Welcome Participants & Informal Social Evening

place will be announced - please send us your arrival details

Conference Opening and Keynote Speakers

09:00 - 11:15 | Conference hall

Pavel Kozák (rector)| Dagmar Škodová Parmová (mayor of České Budějovice)| Lucie Nováková (Trnava university)
Silviu Miloiu (KreativEU) and guests
Opening ceremony, USB, Trnava, KreativEU

Keynotes

Mauro Agnoletti (University of Florence, Italy)
Beyond Nature and Culture: Rethinking Eco-Cultural Heritage through Historical Landscapes

Martin Michette (University of Oxford, England)
Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter, England)
Capacity to care: Transdisciplinary Education for Ecocultural Heritage

Literature, Narratives, Arts and Environmental Imaginaries

12:30 - 13:45 | Conference hall

Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Seascapes
Kateřina Kovářová

Crime Fiction and Dystopic Landscapes 
Jan Staněk

I ams.” Environmental Motifs in the Works of Georgi Gospodinov"
Vera Kaplická Yakimova

Escaping the Terrestrial: Science, Power, and Elite Escapism in Contemporary Eco-Science Fiction 
Sofiya Filonenko

The Transformation of the Landscape Character of the Political District Milevsko and Its Depiction by Visual Artists in the 1950s
Jitka Máchalová

Education, Inclusion and the Social Dimensions of Eco-Cultural Heritage

12:30 - 13:45 | Room A

Bridging Science, Heritage and Sustainability: A Student-Centred Approach to Eco-Cultural Heritage Curriculum Development
Laura Monica Gorghiu, Gabriel Gorghiu, Silviu Marian Miloiu

Building Internationalisation: From Strategic Networking to Interdisciplinary Learning
Ivana Kutá Smatanová

Touching the Past: Tactile Models in the Interpretation of Places of Memory
Zuzana Duchková, Josef Lorenc

Rewilding Futures: Heritage Foresight in Post-Socialist Landscapes
Lucia Nováková, Silviu Marian Miloiu

The European Capital of Culture as a Laboratory for Regional Development
Petr Peřinka

Literature, Narratives, Arts and Environmental Imaginaries

14:00 - 15:15 | Conference hall

Paris across the Arts: the intermedial palimpsest and the construction of cultural imaginaries
Manuela Sofia da Conceição Silva,  Sofia Catarino Silva

“I Feel Myself Exalted above All That Is Earthly”: Vesuvius and Etna in Selected Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing
Václav Grubhoffer

The Balkans and the Ottoman Empire in the travelogues of Vítězslav Hálek
Bohumil Jiroušek

Narrating Cultural Otherness: The Authorial Subject and Narrative Identity in Eda Kriseová’s Travel Writing
Martina Halamová

Between You and Me: Fractured humanities in Kafka's “Jackals and Arabs
Salim

Education, Inclusion and the Social Dimensions of Eco-Cultural Heritage

14:00 - 15:15 | Room A

Learning from the South Bohemian Pond Landscape: Using Eco-Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Science Education
Renata Ryplová

Place Matters: Connecting Local Landscape, Culture, and Language Learning through CLIL
Renata Janktová

The Importance of Reading Strategies for the Development of Sociocultural Identity in Integrated L1 Instruction
Růžena Písková, Helena Švarcová

Technology-Integrated International Outdoor Inquiry Learning at the Jewish Cemetery in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Eli Ashkenazi

Internships as a Channel of Knowledge Transfer in the Opole Region
Laura Praszmo, Michaela Tomeczek

Literature, Narratives, Arts and Environmental Imaginaries

15:35 - 16:35 | Conference hall

A Devastated Land: Early Perceptions of Environmental Devastation during the Thirty Years' War
Kateřina Pražáková

Early Modern Jesuit Landscape Projects and Their Role in Conversion 
Henrieta Žažová,  Adrián Kobetič

Claude Glass and the Aesthetic Experience of Natural Places
Martin Kaplický, Ondřej Dadejík 

Non-human and More-than-Human in Literature 
David Skalický

Education, Inclusion and the Social Dimensions of Eco-Cultural Heritage

15:35 - 16:35 | Room A

Explainable Computational Music Visualization for Teaching Western Tonal Harmony
Josef Pavlíček 

Innovative Approaches to Education about Cultural Heritage: The Case of an Educational Programme at Zlatá Koruna Monastery
Margareta Garabiková Pártlová, Martina Blažková, František Majer

The Potential of the Eco-Cultural Concept in Education
Petra Karvánková, Vojtěch Blažek, Adéla Rejmanová, Jiří Rypl

Managerial Warm-Up as a Tool for Supporting Health, Mental Well-being, and a Sustainable Work Style
Zuzana Kornatovská

Social Evening & Poster Section

18:00 - 22:00 | Hallway

Meet with Authors 18:30 - 19:30

Heritage Game: A Gamification Model for Community-Based Heritage Work
Vojtěch Blažek, Petra Karvánková, Jiří Rypl

Traditional useful plants as cultural heritage in the teacher training of future science teachers
Štěpánka Chmelová, Veronika Špačková, Zuzana Hondlíková

Field-Based Natural Science Course in Primary Teacher Education: From Species Identification to Self-Directed Learning and Outdoor Teaching Practice
Jan Petr, Zbyněk Vácha

Gallery in the Microscope (Exhibition)
Hana Sehadová

The Use of Scientific Micrographs in Science Education: Connecting Science, Learning, and Art in Cell Biology Education
Radka Závodská

Connecting Science, Language and Landscape: A CLIL Approach to Eco-Cultural Heritage in Teacher Education
Ludmila Zemková, František Majer

Defining Eco-Culture region of KreativEU universities
EcoREGIS team

University of South Bohemia
Marie Vlásková, Radim Sirůček, Matěj Pokorný, Petr Mráz, Tomáš Kříž

Trnava University
Beáta Gavlasová, Filip Holický

Opole University of Technology
Barbara Kesler, Paulina Dudzicz, Maksymilian Kaleta

Opening and Keynote Speaker

09:00 - 09:35 | Conference hall

Viktor Vojtko (University of South Bohemia)
Connecting Loops, Not Just Dots: System Dynamics for Sustainable Destinations

Sustainable Tourism, Regional Development and Heritage-Based Economies

09:45 - 11:00 | Conference hall

Old City, Young Residents: Educational Migration and the Renewal of a Historic Academic Town
Diana Rokita-Poskart

Graduate Employment Plans and Regional Attachment in Opole
Aleksandra Olender, Magdalena Marzec

Student Casual Work and the Cultural Economy of Opole
Ilona Lerch, Jagoda Kulik, Beata Prochota

Microalgae-Based Valorization of Agro-Industrial Effluent: A Step towards Circular Bioeconomy
David Sousa

Landscape Memory as a Planning Tool: Integrating Eco-Cultural Heritage into Land Consolidations and Landscape Planning
Jana Moravcová

Eco-Cultural Heritage, Cultural Landscapes and Memory of Place

09:45 - 11:00 | Room A

Beyond the Trenches: Environmental Archaeology of First World War Battlefields in the Slovak Carpathians
Libor Vobejda

Returning to Roermond: Witch Persecution, Storytelling and the Memory of Place
Ilja Simons

The Memory of Abandoned Places
Olga Divišová

Spatial Distribution of Toponyms with the Adjective “Czech”: Cultural Heritage, Historical Processes and Regional Identity
Aleš Nováček, Radim Král

Mneme and Lethe in Eco-Cultural Landscapes: The Vacarescu and Ghica Domains in Romania
Silviu Marian Miloiu

Sustainable Tourism, Regional Development and Heritage-Based Economies

11:15 - 12:20 | Conference hall

Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism: A Perspective on Drivers and Barriers
Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe

Moving from Pilgrimage to Cultural Heritage Tourism in Palestine: Potentials and Limitations
Rami K. Isaac

A Landscape Full of Churches: The Gothic Trail as an Example of a Cross-Border Cultural Tourism Project
Hynek Látal

From Prehistoric Salt Production to Contemporary Tourism: Archaeology, Heritage and Community at Băile Figa, Romania
Iuliana-Elisabeta Bartok

Eco-Cultural Heritage, Cultural Landscapes and Memory of Place

11:15 - 12:30 | Room A

Stories Inscribed in the Landscape: Tracing the Memory of Trentino Civilians Displaced during the Great War
Kristýna Grubhoffer Hanusová

The Moving Waterline: Submerged and Re-emerging Heritage
Lucia Nováková, Miroslava Daňová, Miller Zambrano

A Thousand Years of Fish Farming History in the Czech Republic – Current Problems and Challenges
Ján Regenda

Guardians of Landscape Memory: Ancient and Veteran Trees as Living Eco-Cultural Monuments
Vendula Moravcová

From Technical Information to Heritage Meaning: A Simondonian Approach to Historical Objects, Ruins, and Collective Memory
Pompiliu Alexandru

Workshop & Lecture: “Managerial Warm-Up as a Tool for Supporting Health, Mental Well-being, and a Sustainable Work Style”

15:00 - 16:30 | Registration needed | No extra costs | Gym of USB 

Field trip with an evening reception

13:30 - 21:00 | Registration needed | Extra costs 30€

Baroque Theater, Madeta Cellars

You will visit unique sites linked to the cultural heritage of the South Bohemian Region. The itinerary includes a guided tour of a unique Baroque theatre—recognized by UNESCO—as well as a visit to the revolving auditorium located in the castle gardens. The excursion concludes in distinctive cellars, used by the company Madeta for cheese maturation, featuring a tasting session and an evening buffet.

Trip fee 30€ (The price includes shared transport and a banquet)

Payment Instructions:

• Organisation Name: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
• Address: Branišovská 1645/31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• ID No. 60076658 | VAT No. CZ60076658
• Payment Reference (Variable Symbol): 1313
• Note: Name
• Bank Details: 
• Bank Name
  Československá obchodní banka, a. s.
  Account Holder
  University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
  Account Number
  131975908/0300
  Currency
  EUR
  SWIFT
  CEKOCZPP
  IBAN
  CZ46 0300 0000 0001 3197 5908

Opening and Keynote Speaker

Special Guided Tour

Exhibition: Reflections of Science

02.- 06.11. | 09:00 - 16:00 | Biology centre, CAS

The exhibition of acrylic paintings titled *Reflections of Science*, by academic painter Miroslav Konrád, commemorates the legacy of the world-renowned Czech-American chemist Josef Michl.
The exhibition of paintings accompanied by verses, titled *Reflections of Science* and created by academic painter Miroslav Konrád, will be held from September 21 to December 17, 2026, in the lobby of the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Web of Exhibition

Food: St. Martin’s Goose in České Budějovice

02.- 06.11. | all day | Přemysl Otakar II. Square

St. Martin’s feasts in the České Budějovice region showcase the very best of traditional autumn cuisine. Enjoy delicious specialties, an authentic St. Martin’s goose, and young wine. Treat yourself to a unique culinary experience filled with rich flavors, enticing aromas, and a delightful atmosphere. Web

Exhibition: Village-Square Chapels of South Bohemia and Adjacent Moravia

02.- 06.11. | 09:00 - 16:00 | Town Hall Exhibition Hall

The exhibition presents the architectural and historical development of village-square chapels in South Bohemia and adjacent Moravia, showcasing the diversity of their architecture and the roles they played in the life of rural communities. The exhibition presents the findings of long-term research into small-scale religious architecture, conducted by staff from the National Heritage Institute in České Budějovice. It traces the architectural and historical evolution of these chapels from the mid-18th century to the present day, highlighting the variety of their architectural designs and the functions they served within rural communities. Web of Exhibition

Interactive: RETROGAMING | The Beginnings of Personal Computers in the Czech Republic

02.- 06.11. | 09:00 - 17:30 | South Bohemia Museum

This interactive exhibition of vintage computers traces the evolution of computing technology from its early days through the mid-1990s. It even features a dedicated "gamer’s den"! Play classic titles such as Prince of Persia, Pac-Man, Doom, Wolfenstein, Street Fighter II, or Space Invaders. You can try out over 1,000 games. Web of Exhibition

Conference over for the day? The evening is just beginning!
Discover some of our favourite places for food, drinks, and a relaxed night out in České Budějovice. Because some of the best conference conversations happen after the last session.

U Šebestů

17:00 - 05:00 | N 48°58.60193', E 14°28.44402'

Unique Night Restaurant

Yellow Submarine

19:00 - 02:00 | N 48°58.46322', E 14°28.32412'

Poetic Coctail Bar

Camino Bar

18:00 - 03:00 | N 48°58.52405', E 14°28.38330'

Karaoke & Coctail Bar

ŠIROKO

11:00 - 24:00 | N 48°58.38257', E 14°28.44143'

Cozy café-pub