LYNX is the Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage. It is a research unit of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, connected to the Curricula in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (AMCH) and Museum Studies (MUST) programs within the PhD in Cultural Systems. Moreover, LYNX participates in the Phd program in Management of Digital Transformation (MDT) and contributes to the National PhD in Heritage Science.
LYNX promotes and carries out case study based research projects concerning the mechanisms of image production and their contextually specific reception and use. It does privilege projects that adopt multidisciplinary strategies of analysis.
29 October - 2 November 2025
Lucca Comics & Games 2025
LYNX takes part in the program of LUCCA COMICS&GAMES
04 November 2025
Lynx Seminar
"Artificial Intelligence,
Copyright, and Collective Rights Management"
17 November 2025
Book presentation
"Il mondo sulle spalle. Una storia famigliare e politica" by Giulio Napolitano
18 November 2025
Opening of the Academic Year
with the awarding of the PhD honoris causa in "Cultural Systems" to Prof. Sabino Cassese
In the presence of the President of the Republic
27 November 2025
Agnese Mussatti
(AMCH)
"The Intangible Dimensions of Cultural Heritage"
The New Academic Year is starting soon!
The Welcome Day for
the PhD program in
"Cultural Systems" will take place on 12 November 2025
Role of Images, Objects and Spaces (Production, Contextual Reception, Uses, Tangible and Intangible Dimensions, from Antiquity onwards);
Image Tradition and Perception, Media (from Antiquity onwards, including Film Studies, Photography);
Difficult Heritage: Analysis, Management, Organization;
Digitization of Cultural Heritage;
Cultural Heritage Law and Globalization;
East and West (from Antiquity onwards).