Julie Deramond

Julie Deramond is a Lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences at Avignon University and a member of the Norbert Elias Center - UMR 8562 (as of 2024). Her work bridges cultural mediation, heritage studies, and digital humanities.

• Education: Doctor of Contemporary History (University of Toulouse II - 2009)
• Research Areas: Cultural mediation, heritage interpretation, sensory experiences in museums, digital humanities, agritourism, and historical communication.

Her recent publications focus on olive tree heritage and its role in regional development, with interdisciplinary approaches combining museum studies, tourism analysis, and sensory experience design. Co-presented at the 2024 MidiSciences conference with Pauline Grison on olfactory-based cultural mediation.

Key themes across her work include:

• Heritage commercialization and symbolic requalification
• Digital and physical mediations in cultural spaces
• Sensory marketing in museum contexts
• Cross-cultural agritourism models