Projects - Hanna Schreiber

Conferences
Collaborations

Annual Conference of the ICH University Network in South-East Europe: „Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age” October 17, 2025, Sofia, Bulgaria & online. Moderator of the panel “Emerging Technologies and AI in Teaching Intangible Cultural Heritage”.

“Intangible Cultural Heritage: Safeguarding Living Practices in the Digital Era”, Webinar organized by UNESCO Polish National Commision, October 17, 2025.

Let’s Talk About the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Warsaw. Debate on the occasion of the International Day for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, October 16, 2025, Warsaw.

“Who Inherits Heritage? Invisible Heirs, Algorithms, and Security in the World of Intangible Cultural Heritage.” Inaugural lecture on the occasion of the 20th edition of the Academy of Heritage in Kraków, October 10, 2025.

Training state experts from EU countries on the protection of cultural heritage in crisis situations as part of the EU’s PROCULTHER program, September 25-26 2025, Caserta (Italy).

World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development (MONDIACULT 2025), 28 September to 1 October 2025, Barcelona.

International conference on heritage in Central and Eastern Europe of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (Central and Easter Europe Chapter), 27th to 29th of August 2025, Warsaw. Co-organizer.

Second Edition of the Naples Conference on Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century, organised by UNESCO, 4 June 2025. Contributing to Session 3, “The Economic Dimensions of Cultural Heritage: Towards a Rights-Based Approach,” Hanna Schreiber joined Mr. Ebrahim Alkhalifa (Bahrain), Ms. Kirstine Møller (Denmark), and Ms. Ananya Bhattacharya (India), in a discussion moderated by Ms. Fumiko Ohinata, Secretary of the 2003 UNESCO Convention.

Organization of the webinar Introducing the ICOMOS International Charter and Guidance on Sites with Intangible Cultural Heritage as Secretary of the Working Group on Legal and Policy Development of the Intangible Cultural Heritage NGO Forum (lecture by Dr. Ángel Cabeza Monteira). May 7, 2025 (online).

Speech titled “There is no heritage without people for whom it matters. Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage as an element of national and European security” during Conference “Safe cultural heritage – European challenges in times of war and crisis” organized in the framework of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. 3 April 2025, Kraków, Poland.

Participant in the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Asunción, Paraguay, 1–7 December 2024; co-chair of the NGO and researchers’ debate on the development of legal and policy frameworks in global heritage governance (3 December 2024)

Co-organizer and moderator of the webinar What does the adoption of the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge mean for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage? organized within the Working Group on Legal and Policy Developments of the ICH NGO Forum (26 November 2024, online).

First global webinar dedicated to artificial intelligence and intangible cultural heritage, October 17, 2024 (on the occasion of the First International Day for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage), co-organizer (together with UNESCO) and panelist.

Keynote speech during “National Museum Conference“. 31 October-1 November 2024, Bodø, Northern Norway.

“18th Annual Meeting of the South-East European Network of Experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Warsaw“. University of Warsaw, 10 October 2024, Warsaw.

Conference “Wyzwania dla ochrony dóbr kultury w czasie konfliktu zbrojnego – 70-lecie Konwencji Haskiej”. Akademia Marynarki Wojennej, 19-20 September 2024, Gdynia.

Conference “Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Military”. 5-6 September 2024, Wrocław.

What does ‘democratic’ really mean in ‘the most democratic international Convention’? Unraveling democratic principles in the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, in cooperation with Julia Krzesicka. 13th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research 2024, 19-23 August 2024, Warsaw.

Is Anyone Waiting for Institutional Grammar? A Case for (Not) Adopting the Tool in the Research on International Regimes, in cooperation with Bartosz Pieliński. Indiana University’s 7th Workshop on the Workshop Ostrom Conference (WOW7), 19-21 June 2024, Bloomington.

Cultural Journey Through Warsaw: Educational Workshop for Teachers on ICH. Seminar “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Education” during the 10th session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 12 June 2024, Paris.

Roundtable “Responsibility: Cultivating Continuity: Navigating the Responsibilities of Cultural Heritage and Practices“, ACHS 2024, 3-6 June 2024, Galway.

Roundtable “Intangible cultural heritage as a field of cultural interaction”. Conference “70 years of Ukraine in UNESCO: education, science, culture”, 30 April 2024, online.

Rethinking “politicization” in the UNESCO heritage regimes or: why bending the rules helps to protect “the spirit of the Convention”, in cooperation with Julia Krzesicka, presented at Conference “Heritage on the Margins. Central and Eastern European Perspectives” organized by Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Chapter. 29-30 November 2023, ZRC SAZU, Lubljana.

On the 20th anniversary of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage together with the Intangible Cultural Heritage Board of Warsaw, we invite you to an international conference and workshop dedicated to this issue. The conference will take place on 16-17th October 2023 in the Praga Museum of Warsaw, Targowa Street no. 50/52, 03-733 Warsaw. More info: https://muzeumwarszawy.pl/en/intangible-warsaw

“Exploring the concept of meta-commons. The case of UNESCO Heritage Lists” at Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, September 20, 2023. More info: Ostrom Workshop Calendar (iu.edu).

Lecture “The 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Its Implementation and (Un)intended Consequences for Poland” at Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, September 7, 2023. More info: Polish Studies Center Calendar (iu.edu).

XIX Biennial International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Conference in Nairobi (Kenya), 19-24 June 2023; role: co-chair (with Peter Gould) and speaker on the panel Cultural Heritage as a Commons: Governance Challenges through the lens of UNESCO Heritage Conventions and the Sustainable Development Goals; title of the paper prepared together with Bartosz Pieliński: Meta-commons and the challenge of sustainable global governance. The case of UNESCO Heritage Lists

16^th Congress of the European Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Brno (Czechia), 7-10 June 2023; speaker at the roundtable Who Needs Ethnological Knowledge?, title of the paper: Are International Relations in Need of Ethnological Knowledge?

National Conference Heritage. Traditional approaches, contemporary practices and future prospects of the Artes Liberales’ Student Critical Heritage Studies Club in Warsaw (Poland), 28 April 2023; keynote speech: 20th Anniversary of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Successes, Troubles and Controversies

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference in Santiago de Chile (Chile), 6 December, role: co-organizer (with Monalisa Maharjan) of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Network Meeting (hybrid)

Intangible Cultural Heritage NGO Forum Symposium in Rabat (Morocco), 27 November; role: speaker, title: Intangible cultural heritage and climate change: what can we learn from Elinor Ostrom?

Polish Association of International Studies seminar in Warsaw (Poland, University of Warsaw, meeting in Polish), 14November, role: speaker, title: Sociology and anthropology of International Relations as a sub-discipline and research area of IR (in Polish: Socjologia i antropologia SM jako subdyscyplina i obszar badawczy SM)

Ostrom European Gateway meeting in Berlin (Germany), 30 September, role: participant

European Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Summer School in Warsaw (Poland, Museum of Prague), 30 June, role: keynote lecturer, title: Intangible heritage, global heritage production regimes and the commons

Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) Conference (on-line), 21 June, paper prepared together with Bartosz Pieliński (main presenter) titled: Position of actors in international regimes. The case of the 2003 UNESCO Convention

International Conference on Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges for Local Governments in Uniejów (Poland, in English and Polish: Międzynarodowa konferencja: Dziedzictwo kulturowe – szanse i wyzwania dla samorządów), 10 May, role: speaker, title: Experiences of Warsaw ICH Board in safeguarding of the intangible heritage in urban context (delivered in Polish)

Ostrom Workshop Colloquium lecture in Bloomington (Indiana University, USA), 4 April, role: main presenter of the paper prepared together with Bartosz Pieliński titled: Inviting Whole Humanity to an Elite Club? Global Heritage Production Regimes and UNESCO Heritage Lists through the Lens of the Ostrom’s Concepts, see: Media

International Studies Association Conference in Nashville (USA, hybrid), 28 March, role: speaker, title: Global heritage diplomacy and Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. The case of UNESCO Lists

Department of Policy Research Methodology (Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw) seminar in Polish (on-line), 23 February, role: speaker, title: The challenge of originality in policy research (in Polish: Wyzwania oryginalności w badaniach nad polityką)

Project website:
https://kultura.um.warszawa.pl/niematerialna-warszawa

Project publications:

Intangible Warsaw. The Common Heritage of Our City

A guide to the intangible heritage of Warsaw published on the basis of a report.

Intangible Warsaw: Traditions, Customs and Practices in a Co-city. Research report.

The report is the first result of the work of the Team for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Warsaw, established in February last year at the Culture Office. It was created on the basis of research and the material collected during it. It illustrates the practices, traditions and customs preserved to this day in the intergenerational transmission that build the identity of people living in Warsaw, shaping their relationship with the city. The report is the starting point for further debates and the basis for continuing the research project.

The main goal of the project is to create a tool for automatic detection of diverse topics/themes in UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention and UNESCO 2003 Intangible Heritage Convention summary records from statutory organ meetings with the use of Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing – NLP).

The project is research-oriented and is developed jointly between two faculties of the University of Warsaw: Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics and the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies with the support of MI²DataLab. It is a step towards combining Artificial Intelligence with Political Science/International Relations.

The team consist of four bachelor students: Joanna Wojciechowska, Igor Kamiński, Maria Śmigielska and Mateusz Sypniewski. They are mentored by two master students: Stanisław Giziński and Emilia Wiśnios together with political science/IR researchers: dr hab. Hanna Schreiber and dr hab. Bartosz Pieliński, supported by PhD candidate Julia Krzesicka.

We presented the first results of our common work at the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Conference in June 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya.

The UNESCO – NLP team with friends and colleagues after the panel “Leveraging computational methods to decode institutions – implementing computer science methods to study commons”, at the IASC Conference in Nairobi. From the left, the President of IASC Charlie Schweik and co-chair Christopher Frantz, in the background: Sechindra Vallury, Igor Kamiński, Emilia Wisnios, Hanna Schreiber, in the foreground from the left: Mateusz Sypniewski, Maria Śmigielska, Joanna Wojciechowska, Stanisław Giziński, Seth Frey and co-chair Bartosz Pieliński.

The Mayor of Krakow, Jacek Majchrowski, has established a Kraków Intangible Cultural Heritage Team, which I am honored to be a member. On December 15, 2023, the first meeting was held to inaugurate the work of the team, established on the model of the first in Poland – and most likely in the world! – municipal team dealing with urban intangible heritage. Thus, Warsaw and Krakow join forces in safeguarding the intangible heritage of our cities!