Upcoming Events Calendar

Upcoming events

• Beyond the Iraq Museum: Protecting our Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis

  • When
    06 Feb 2012
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    DePaul Center - Room 8005 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604

  The Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law and the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology present "Beyond the Iraq Museum: Protecting our Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis"
  

  The tragic looting of the Iraq National Museum in 2003 shocked cultural heritage professionals into action and led to the U.S. ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 2009. Natural disasters, global climate change, and political instability also continue to place our cultural heritage at risk around the globe. As a response to these events, Minneapolis Institute of Arts curator and former military officer Corine Wegener founded the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield in 2006. Part of an international network, USCBS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting cultural property during armed conflict and natural disasters. Wegener will provide a slide presentation about her experience with the Iraq National Museum and describe the current state of efforts to protect our shared cultural heritage in times of crisis.

  
  

  Please email Cecelia Story at cstory@depaul.edu to RSVP for this event.

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• Hear the True Stories Behind the FBI's Real 'Indiana Jones

  • When
    09 Feb 2012
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    12:30 PM
  • Location
    Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA

  The Penn Cultural Heritage Center invites you to join us on Thursday, February 9, 2012:

  
  

  “Hear the True Stories Behind the FBI's Real 'Indiana Jones'”
  Robert Wittman , Founder, FBI Art Crime Team
  12:30pm – Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum
  
  

  During this afternoon lecture, Robert Wittman will discuss his experiences rising from humble roots as the son of an antiques dealer to build a twenty-year law-enforcement career that was nothing short of extraordinary. Armed with a scholar’s passion, a con man’s smile, and a daredevil’s nerves, he worked undercover to catch art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. During his twenty years as an FBI special agent, his accomplishments included the creation of the bureau’s Art Crime Team. He has recovered more than $300 million of stolen art and cultural property.
  
  Brown bag lecture - please bring a lunch!
  
  The Penn Cultural Heritage Center Spring Lecture Series is sponsored, in part, by the PoGo Family Foundation.

  
  

  For more information, visit www.pennchc.org.

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• Third Annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition

  • Start
    24 Feb 2012
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  • End
    25 Feb 2012
  • Location
    Chicago, Illinois

  DePaul University College of Law and LCCHP are pleased to announce our 3rd Annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition. Registration closed on November 11.  Oral arguments will be held on 24-25 February 2012 in Chicago.

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• National Conference on Cultural Property Protection

  • Start
    27 Feb 2012
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  • End
    29 Feb 2012
  • Location
    The Getty Center Los Angeles & The Getty Villa Malibu

  The National Conference on Cultural Property Protection offers insight and proven solutions for new and seasoned professionals in the field of cultural property protection.
  
  Learn from the best, discover new trends, and take away effective tools for your organization. Network with national and international peers from small and large museums, libraries, galleries and cultural centers.
  
  
  For more information, please visit: http://www.natconf.si.edu/
  

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• ASIL 106 Annual Meeting

  • Start
    28 Mar 2012
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  • End
    31 Mar 2012
  • Location
    Washington, DC

  With over a century of tradition and experience behind it, the American Society of International Law's Annual Meeting has become the most important gathering in the field of international law. 
  
  More than 1,200 practitioners, academics, and students travel to Washington, DC, each March from all over the world to debate and discuss the latest developments in their field.
  

  
  

  Learn more at www.asil.org/annual-meeting.cfm. 

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• From Past Experience to New Approaches and Synergies: The Future of Protection Heritage Management for Archaeological Heritage in Times of Economic Crisis

  • Start
    23 May 2012
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  • End
    25 May 2012
  • Location
    New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

  Dear Colleagues.

  
  

  We are organizing a regional conference on the future and new challenges facing the Protection Management of Archaeological Heritage.

  
  

  The scope of this conference is to present and use past experience with a view to contribute as a think tank to new ways of managing the protection and preservation of our archaeological heritage in times of economic crisis. The challenges are now greater than ever, as the cultural society needs to regroup its forces, reinforce its role, create new synergies and undertake fresh initiatives in order to maintain standards and offer sustainable solutions. The conference will function as a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas by all professionals involved in protection management in these difficult times.

  
  

  As there are many sectors of occupation which play an important role in protection management and which face serious challenges and threats in the present days but also in view of the future, we have identified 15 topics for distinctive panel discussions during the conference sessions. We believe that bringing together and publishing expert opinion and experience in various fields, in regards to preoccupations and possible solutions concerning the future in Protection Heritage Management, in times of economic crisis, will accumulate food for thought and reference on the one side and on the other shall stimulate closer and better collaboration possibilities. The fortieth anniversary of the World Heritage Convention is a momentum that should trigger new inspiration and instigate creativity for a stronger and broader framework of protection for our cultural heritage.

  
  

  Furthermore, as Greece belongs to the ICAHM South- East Mediterranean Region, a special session will be dedicated to this area and the grave difficulties it faces.

  
  

  You are cordially invited to submit your abstract by February 29.

  
  

  On behalf of ICOMOS Hellenic

  Dr. Elena Korka, archaeologist Director, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism

  Antique Shops and Private Archaeological Collections Vice-president for S E Mediterranean Region ICAHM

  
  

  E-mail cititrv@otenet.gr

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• HERITAGE 2012: 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development

  • Start
    19 Jun 2012
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  • End
    22 Jun 2012
  • Location
    Porto, Portugal

  Heritage 2012, 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development:

  follows the path of the previous editions: it aims at establishing a state of the art event regarding the relationships between forms and kinds of heritage and the framework of sustainable development concepts.
  Environment, economics, society and culture, the four dimensions of sustainable development, are brought here to define a singular approach on how to deal and go beyond the traditional aspects of heritage preservation and safeguarding. On our today’s world, heritage is no longer just a memory or a cultural reference, or even a place or an object. Heritage is moving towards broader and wider scenarios, where it becomes often the driven forces for commerce, business, leisure and politics.
   

  HERITAGE 2012 is a peer reviewed conference.
   

  Visit the conference website for full details about the conference scope, topics and submission procedures at:
  http://www.heritage2012.greenlines-institute.org

  Organized by: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development.

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