The Art Law Centre in Geneva, which has sponsored terrific events in the past, is holding another at the end of next month:the Second All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference. Registration is available now (before June 13) for what looks to be an engaging two days. From the program:
The Art-Law Centre and the UNESCO Chair in the International Law of the Protection of Cultural Heritage are proud to invite you to participate in the second “All Art and Cultural Heritage Law” conference, which will be dealing with the two following highly relevant themes: cultural heritage in the crossfire and the relationship between law and ethics in the field of cultural heritage. It will also present some national and regional experiences regarding the implementation of cultural heritage law. Once again Geneva hopes to be for these two days the “capital of the world” of art and cultural heritage law.
The speakers and program will be as follows:
Friday, 24 June 2016
Opening speeches—Christine Chappuis, Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Geneva; Marc-André Renold, Director of the Art-Law Centre, UNESCO Chair, University of Geneva
PANEL I – ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF ETHICS?
Chair: Stephen Urice, University of Miami School of Law, President of the International Cultural Property Society
Round table with the following keynote speakers:
Tatiana Flessas, London School of Economics and Political Science
Stephen W. Clark, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, The J. Paul Getty Trust
Sophie Vigneron, Kent University
Andrea Raschèr, Raschèr Consulting, Zürich
Ethical Databases: Case Studies and Remaining Gaps in Cultural Heritage Information Sharing—Susan Douglas, University of Guelph, Canada
Scores on the Doors: Establishing a Certificate of Virtue Framework for Future Art Market Regulation—Gareth Fletcher, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
Cultural Heritage as Stock for Particle Physics Experiments: The Changing Game—Elena Perez-Alvaro, Licit Cultural Heritage Ltd, London
Filling the Gap between International Organizations’ Soft Law and Cultural Institutions’ Governance—Maria Luisa Tufano and Sara Pugliese, University of Napoli “Parthenope”
Protecting Cultural Heritage: Whose Burden?—Marie-Sophie de Clippele, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles
Ownership, Ethics and Mediation—Anthony Connerty, Barrister, London
PANEL II – CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE CROSSFIRE: REALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PROTECTION EFFORTS
Chair: Marc-André Renold, Director of the Art-Law Centre, UNESCO Chair, University of Geneva
Round table with the following keynote speakers:
Stephen Urice, University of Miami School of Law, President of the International Cultural Property Society
Sabine von Schorlemer, University of Dresden
Riccardo Pavoni, University of Siena
Ali Ahmed Ali, Egyptian Government, Ministry of Antiquities
Humanitarian Action and the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Times of Armed Conflict—Jihane Chedouki, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France
Reality and Effectiveness of Protection Efforts Involving Armed Non-State Actors—Marina Lostal (The Hague University of Applied Sciences), Kristin Hausler (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) and Pascal Bongard (Geneva Call)
Concurrent State Responsibility in International Cultural Heritage Law between Erga Omnes Obligations and Territoriality—Vassilis Tzevelekos (University of Liverpool)
Cultural Genocide under the Jurisdiction of the ICC: Possibilities and Limits of the Protection of Cultural Heritage—Wenke Brückner, University of Cologne
The International Protection of World Heritage from Natural and Man-Made Disasters—Claudia Morini, ECampus University, Italy
Dinner: Tribute to John H. Merryman by Kurt Siehr; Tribute to Pierre Lalive by Marc-André Renold.
Saturday, 25 June 2016
PANEL III – CULTURAL HERITAGE IN PRACTICE: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL EXPERIENCES
Chair: Alessandro Chechi, University of Geneva
Unequal Treatment: Plea for More Generous National Implementations of the 1970 UNESCO Convention in light of Canada’s Experience —Justine Ferland, University of Geneva
Preserving the Divine and Combating Sacred Art Theft in Nepal and India—Donna Yates, University of Glasgow
A Study on Legal Issues of the Implementation of 1970 UNESCO Convention in China—Hao Liu, China University of Political Science and Law
Of the Rise of Safe Havens for Threatened Cultural Heritage—Nikolaus Paumgartner (Pestalozzi Attorneys) and Raphael Zingg (ETH Zurich)
Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Kingdom of Bahrain: Practice and Challenges—Michal Wosinski, Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities
Protecting Iraqi and Syrian Cultural Property against Illicit Trafficking for the Financing of Terrorism: The European Union's Perspective—Sabrina Urbinati, University of Milano-Bicocca
Where State Responsibility Does Not Apply: An Impasse for UNESCO—Yin-Cheng Hsu, University of Glasgow
Conclusions—Marc-André Renold and Stephen Urice
