A reminder of this Thursday's event, all the more timely as the Gurlitt collection fallout continues:
DePaul University College of Law Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law will host a symposium on November 14, 2013 entitled "Restitution and Repatriation: the Return of Cultural Objects." A similar conference could not be held last year because of Hurricane Sandy, so this is a highly anticipated event. From the event page:
"DePaul's cultural heritage symposium will bring together lawyers, museum professionals, representatives of indigenous communities, and other scholars and experts in the field to examine the repatriation of cultural artifacts. Participants will discuss the repatriation of cultural objects appropriated in the more distant past whose restitution some view as outside the scope of existing law, but others view as a matter of restitutionary justice. They also will address the repatriation of artifacts looted in recent times whose removal is thought to cause contemporary damage to the cultural heritage of communities and nations and to the historical and cultural record."
Hope to be there.
Scheduled speakers and participants include:
- Victoria Reed, Curator for Provenance, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Morag Kersel, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, DePaul University
- Christopher Rollston, Toyozo Nakarai Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Emmanuel Christian Seminary
- Steve Nash, Department Chair and Curator of Archaeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
- Peter Neiman, Partner, WilmerHale
- Julie Getzels, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Art Institute of Chicago
- Susan Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director, New Orleans Museum of Art
- Richard Leventhal, Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center; Professor, University of Pennsylvania Department of Anthropology; and Curator, American Section of the Penn Museum
- Frank Lord, Associate, Herrick Feinstein LLP
- Patty Gerstenblith, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University, and Director, Center for Art, Museum, and Cultural Heritage Law
- Rebecca Tsosie, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Arizona State University
- Charles Brian Rose, Professor of Classical Studies, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania
- David Franklin, Director, Cleveland Museum of Art
- Simon Frankel, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP; Lecturer in Law, Stanford University
- Lori Breslauer, Associate General Counsel and Legal Affairs Director, Field Museum of Natural History
- Jane Levine, Worldwide Director of Compliance, Sotheby’s
- Gary Johnson, President, Chicago Historical Society
- Thomas R. Kline, Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP
