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Event in Canterbury (UK)—"Cultural Heritage in Danger: Illicit Trafficking, Armed Conflicts and Cultural Diplomacy"

Posted by Nicholas O'Donnell on May 10, 2017 at 9:17 AM

I will not be able to attend, but there is an event in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2017 in Canterbury well worth attending for anyone interested.  Entitled “Cultural Heritage in Danger: Illicit Trafficking, Armed Conflicts and Cultural Diplomacy,” the conference organizers describe it as follows.  Registration is available here.

After World War II, the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in Event of Armed Conflict recognized the need to protect and preserve heritage for the benefit of mankind. In the last 60 years, this Convention has been ratified by 129 countries, the latest being the UK in February 2017, and has improved the international framework regulating the protection of cultural heritage in time of conflict. This conference will bring together senior government officials and leading academics from the UK and continental Europe to assess improvements and weaknesses of heritage protection in the current era of terrorist warfare, where ideology, social media and clickbait concur to destroy heritage as recently seen in Palmyra and Mosul. It will also assess developments in the fight against the trafficking of cultural property and discuss new ways of enhancing cooperation between states, as well as Europe and Great Britain in the uncertain time of Brexit. Finally, speakers will discuss how cultural diplomacy can facilitate dialogue between communities that have been torn apart by conflict.

Program

9:00am–9.15am  Registration

9.15am–10.45am  Session 1: Trafficking of Cultural Property

Chairing Session: Dr Sophia Labadi, Senior Lecturer, School of European Culture and Languages

Speakers:

– Janet Ulph, Professor, University of Leicester

Title: Due diligence in the context of the illicit trade.

– Kathryn Walker Tubb, Professor, Institute of Archaeology, UCL

Title: to be confirmed

– David Gill, Professor, Archaeological Heritage and Director of Heritage Futures at the University of Suffolk

Title: Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property

10.45am–11.00am   Coffee

11.00am–12.00pm  Keynote Speech: Time of Conflict

Chairing Session: Karl Goodwin, Vice Chancellor GTA CLAS and PhD Candidate

Artemis Papathanassiou, Former Chair of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict,

Senior Legal Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.

Title: Protecting cultural property in the event of armed conflict: a targeted overview.

12.00pm-1.00pm   Lunch

1.00pm–2.30pm  Session 2: Law Enforcement and Criminal Regulation

Chairing Session: Dr Tatiana Flessas, Associate Professor of Law, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Speakers:

– Mark Harrison FSA, National Policing & Crime Advisor, Historic England

Title: Policing the Past-Understanding crime threats within the historic environment.

– Sophie Hayes, Detective Constable, London Metropolitan Police’s Art and Antiques Unit.                                                                                                                                                      Title: The antiquities market: Challenges and opportunities for law enforcement.

– Dr Sophie Vigneron, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School, University of Kent

Title: New Convention on Offences relating to Cultural Property, Council of Europe.

2.30pm-2.45pm Coffee

2.45pm – 4:15pm  Session 3: Cultural Diplomacy

Chairing Session: Maria Dimitriou, Assistant Lecturer and PhD Candidate

Speakers:

– Dr. Carla Figueira, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, University of Goldsmiths

Title: To be confirmed

– Kristin Hausler, Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law  (BIICL)

Title: Cultural Heritage in Danger: The EU’s Diplomatic Response

Tasoula Hadjitofi, f. Honorary Consul of Cyprus in The Netherlands

Title: Walk of Truth

Topics: UNESCO, University of Kent, Brexit, Canterbury, Janet Ulph, University of Leicester, Kathryn Walker Tubb, David Gill, University of Suffolk, Karl Goodwin, London School of Economics and Political Science, Maria Dimitriou, Kristin Hausler, Tasoula Hadjitofi, 1954 Hague Convention, Artemis Papathanassiou, Dr Sophia Labadi, Dr Tatiana Flessas, Mark Harrison, Sophie Hayes, Dr Sophie Vigneron, Kent Law School, Dr. Carla Figueira

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