CRASSH

Thur 11 Dec 2008

Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street

17.45 - 18.45

Opening Lecture
Margaret Miles (American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine)
Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo
Chair: Richard Hunter (Faculty of Classics)

18.45-19.45 

Wine Reception

Fri 12 Dec 2008

Gonville & Caius College, The Stephen Hawking Building: Cavonius Centre (Theatre)
, West Road

9.00-9.30

Registration

9.30-11.00

Panel 1: The Laws of War and Cultural Policy
Chair: Simon  Goldhill (Classics, Cambridge) 

Roger O’Keefe (University of Cambridge)
Wartime Destruction of Cultural Heritage:
Punishment and Reparation under International Law

Jan Hladik (UNESCO)
The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its 1954 and 1999 Protocols: Challenges for UNESCO implementation

Patrick Boylan (City University, London)
Military Necessity is Very Much More than Military Convenience

11.00-11.30

Tea and Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Panel 2: Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Iraq (I)
Chair: Alexander Bauer (Queens College, CUNY)

Harriet Crawford (UCL/Mcdonald Institute)
The Uses and Abuses of Heritage in Iraq

Saad Eskander (Iraq National Library and Archives)
Internal Uprisings and Foreign Invasion:
the Lootings and the Dispersal of  Iraq's official Documents, 1991-2008

David Myers (Getty Conservation Institute)
The GCI_WMF Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative:
Enhancing capacity for cultural heritage site conservation and management

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30 

Panel 3:  Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Iraq (II)
Chair: Richard  Hunter (Classics, Cambridge)

Maj Gen Barney White-Spunner (GOC 3 ( United Kingdom) Division)
How the Army and Academia can Work Together

Maj Hugo Clarke (Headquarters 3 (United Kingdom) Division)
OPERATION HERITAGE – An Iraqi cultural initiative

John Curtis (British Museum)
War in Iraq and Damage to Cultural Heritage

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break 

16.00-17.30

Panel  4: Cultural Heritage and its Vicissitudes
Chair: Nicholas Postgate (Near Eastern Studies,Cambridge)

Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly (Archaeologist - Journalist, Al Akhbar newspaper)
Heritage and Identity: Between Destruction and Reconstruction in Lebanon (from the civil war to July war of 2006)

András Riedlmayer  (Harvard University)
Cultural Heritage as a Target in War: Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo

Peter Stone (University of Newcastle)
Archaeology and Conflict: Uneasy Bedfellows?

19.15

Conference Dinner at Trinity Hall, The Graham Storey Room
19.15 - drinks
19.45 - dinner 

Sat 13Dec 2008

Gonville & Caius, Stephen Hawking Building, West Road 

9.30 - 11.00

Panel 5: Conflict, Iconoclasm, and the Museum
Chair: Gail Feigenbaum (Getty Research Institute)

Robert Knox (Former Keeper, Asia Department, British Museum)
Restoring the National Museum at Kabul: part of the process of building a peaceful civil society in Afghanistan

Alastair  Northedge (Université de Paris I)
Conflict in Iraq: the Case of Samarra

Oliver Urquart-Irvine (British Library)
Stewarding Property in a Post-Ownership World

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Panel 6: Contesting Culture: Afghanistan
Chair: Robert Knox (former Keeper, Asian Department, British Museum)

Jonathan Lee (Independent scholar)
A Shattered Visage’: Documenting Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage in a Time of Conflict

Jolyon Leslie (Aga Khan Foundation)
Culture and Contest in Afghanistan

Reinhard Bernbeck (SUNY Binghamton)
Who Has, and Who should Have, Power over the Past and its Remains?

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00-15.30

Panel 7: Cultural Property and its Claims
Chair: Robin Cormack (Courtauld Institute)

Michael Barry (Princeton University and Metropolitan Museum, NY)
Whose Cultural Property? The Fate of the 11th-15th-century Shrine of Gazurgah in Herat

Tatiana Flessas (LSE)
The End of the Museum… is not yet

Marie-Louise Sorensen (Mcdonald Institute, University of Cambridge)
Wars of claims!

15.30 - 16.00 

Coffee Break

16.00-17.00

Round Table:
Robert Knox (Former Keeper, Asian Department, British Museum)
Harriet Crawford (Hon. Visiting Prof at UCL/Senior Fellow at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge)
Margaret Miles (American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine)

Closing Discussion

17.15-19.00

Reception: Museum of Archaeology, Classics Faculty, Sidgwick Site