 Hello everybody, thank you for having me here. I'm Anna Branson, and so I'm as well a PhD student at the Saint-Marine University of Savon-Moulin. And my research is on, especially on managing and public perception of World Heritage Serial sites. I'm here today, I present together with Melanie Duval, but who is obviously not here, so anyway. I will be talking about connecting World Heritage Serial properties, and I'll be also, you'll see, I'll be connecting a bit some of our presentation that we already saw, or we will see today. So, I, well, I'll do my presentation before I present the World Heritage and I will list it on the Serial properties. I'm not sure if you know this category, so I would like to precise some points. Then, Powell-Dwelling sites, not sure as well if you, how much you know them, so I might briefly present them, and then I will assist on the showcase of this Generating International Logbook Trigata. Then I would like to conclude with some reflections on how this project contributes to the connection of World Heritage sites. So the, so with this UNESCO World Heritage Convention actually in 1972, what we got is, it was the international recognition that the local heritage, beyond local significance, these heritage sites, they also have a global importance and represent a common responsibility. There's one category that insists that moreover embodies this idea, which, and consolidates the concept, is the one of UNESCO World Heritage Serial Properties, which is going to be, so then the category on which I would like to insist a bit, because as opposed to the singular property, the Serial World Heritage properties are composed of two or more elements that are separated in space. These sites can have national or transnational, or how we call them transboundary sites, spatial configuration, but only together then they will present this universal outstanding value. So they embody in explicitly, in explicit manner, this UNESCO concept is a common international good, whose social role is increase the, so it's connecting communities, then increase their sense of solidarity, but also help to structure their global identity. But so, although encouraging these inscriptions of serial sites for their symbolic dimension, UNESCO itself acknowledges the complexity of their structure of the government, the governance, and also of the public perception. So in the actual, let's say there's a sort of, like quite an absence of the precise guidelines, and within, in this context, every property has to find its own way, I mean, its own modus vivendi, which then is largely defined by the obligatory common management plan, which is required by UNESCO, by UNESCO, and this common management plan, as for all the other also singular properties, implies conservation, protection, and valorization. It is also recommended by UNESCO that for the serial properties, this national management plan should be carried out by international coordination body, composed of national decision makers who guarantee, whose role is to guarantee the compatibility of local projects with the UNESCO politics and the general management plan. So now I'd like to, as I said, I would like to present to you briefly one serial heritage property in particular, which are the prehistoric pile-dwelling sites around the Alps, of which serial was talking already in the beginning of the afternoon, which is then, as we said, a series of 111 elements, archeological sites, present in six different Alpine countries that were inscribed into UNESCO World Heritage List in 2011. So their significance was internationally recognized, especially for the scientific value of the well-preserved prehistoric organic matter. But because these archeological sites are, the majority is underwater or in feed box, only little is really accessible to public in situ. And we have to acknowledge that the majority of artifacts is kept in the reserves or in the museums, which causes the problem that these museums sometimes are really far away from the original sites, which causes a dissociation of the local community with their heritage. So many in situ valorization are then proposed, such as walkways, educational boards, or reconstructions of pile-dwelling structures, which helps to re-inscribe these sites into the living place and reconnect the local population with what is often perceived as invisible heritage. The experiential methods are also considered as a particular performance for the social expectation of this type of heritage. On the other hand, these sites, so the pile-dwelling sites were also recognized for being testimony of cultural exchange and the interaction between the regions in around the Alps in particular. So now the question we have is if the realization of the punctual sites serves to the local appropriation, how then this international heritage can be transferred to the global community? Or if you put it differently, how to put in light this international network and how to increase the awareness of the local community and construct the global identity? In this context, then I propose to take a look at it in a rating clockboat regatta. So when we are talking about the logboats, we have to think of the reconstructions of the vessels that were normally found in pile-dwelling archeological sites. This regatta is thus a course of two logboats competing simultaneously and can take from four to eight people depending on the type, size, but also on the quality of the reconstruction. So for the race, two categories were done, the local and the international category of competitors have to peddle some few hundred meters. This, of course, this regatta is not to be seen as a qualification for some sort of maybe World Cup, but at the end, nevertheless, so the trough is given to the best group and then next year handed over to the next winner. So this chronology then tells us a little about, so the itinerary thing logboats regatta was first organized in 2014. Then it moved in Switzerland where the idea actually of making international became more tangible. So in 2015, the international competitors were invited to participate. In 2016, we see it traveled to the other side of the Alps. 2017 came back to the France. 2018, it was organized in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2019, it's going presumably to Lake of Ljubljana, Italy. But we don't, so this chronology tells us a little about the process that were happening within local population stakeholders and the international community. So I tried to make some shematization that I would like to present you right now to maybe explain some of the internal happening. So if the first local regatta was organized in a bill, it was actually not the very first, the very first animation and valorization of pile dwellings through the logboats reconstruction. That's normally, I mean, we know that this sort of valorization of pile dwelling sites already took place before, but in a very local time and space context. So in 2014, the idea was set up to make it international and then in 2015, so the second regatta in Bill takes place and then this time with this international participation. This event actually answered a latent need for tangible cooperation between the countries participating in this pile dwelling serial inscription in the way that goes beyond the administrative policies of management plan. So the idea of shared pile dwelling heritage was given the expression that even the local population could perceive because it was physically embodied by actually the foreign participants. For some publics as well, this international regattas are the first time they realize the pile dwelling heritage exists beyond their local community. So then this first international regatta also helped to strengthen the links among the international participants and it is to note that then further on, they were majorly represented by professional and academic archeologists and they would later start to form a core of what we will call the international category of competitors. In 2016, the regatta was organized in Austria at Ataasi Lake by the local pile dwelling colorization association with two log boats reconstruction, reconstructions made prior to the event. Surprisingly at the time, regatta was organized independently to the point where national coordinators and consequently the international community was almost left out. Ultimately, they managed to step in and managed to continue to assure the international aspect of this event. So in 2017, in France, situation was quite inverse. Actually, a really strong top-down approach was necessary to guarantee the continuation of the international regatta as local community ignored the existence and the potentials of the pile dwelling heritage. So the decision makers had to identify and then convince the local community of long-term potentials of this heritage. But nevertheless, this regatta then represented a positive premise and a successful story who at the end involved the local community and international participants with also reconstructions of the log boats. So this vertical cooperation was then between the local stakeholders and national decision makers was then continued and carried out in 2018 when regatta was organized in Riviana, Slovenia. This time a careful cooperation was done between an association of experimental archeology who did, so between the association of their experimental archeology, together with a national coordination body, linking the international regatta with an ongoing log boat reconstruction project of which we just heard with the presentation of the poster. So this log boat reconstruction project started already two years earlier and the international regatta just sort of took part in this project as well. In 2019, the regatta will go to Italy to the lake of Lidro and the choice was made because of the great enthusiasm of local museum to host the event, also on the event of their renovation and reopening of their structure. So to pass then on my fourth point and then to the conclusion, I would like to make just three observations. The first one is that actually the choice of every year's regatta organization place is not obvious nor easy as we have six countries and 111 sites that are potential candidates. Although much depends on local community that has to be ready to welcome and support the event, but also it depends on the national decision makers who then have to carry out and equilibrated politics for all of the concerned territories. The second part is that we see that this idea of the international aspect of regatta in a way functions as a framework within which the local aspirations are then developed and declined. So we can say that for this it has purely local character because it also makes evidence of different values that the same heritage can represent in Switzerland. So the pile dwellings were already known and the international regatta helped to its internationalization. In Austria the regatta prompted the collaboration between the local stakeholders and the national coordinator saying for France where regatta also contributed to the general sensibilization of the local public and in Slovenia regatta represented important part in another project. So beside the state that there is one thing that has to be noted what is being observed throughout these years and what is becoming symptomatic is that the competitors in the international category are the same social professional stakeholders over and over again. As a consequence in the international category there is a lack of competitors coming from the local population that would be ready to participate in other countries regatta. So every time they participate in their own but they don't move to the others. One of the fact is that the local communities are only strongly solicited when the regatta takes place in their own country but not sufficiently encouraged to participate in the others. The local population thus remains actually in a way the receptor of the international dimension without active participation to its construction. So all this at the end raises questions on the management of this serial world heritage site and site in general in light of common identity construction. So as we see in the case of regatta this could be an instrument for the animation of the network and improvement of the management. It could permit to enhance the cooperation of all partners but also and more important the participation of all publics to raise the common awareness of the importance of this heritage. The final question is whether these goals are to be achieved by formal and centralized administrative body or the global community and identity construction should be left to evolve organically. Thank you.