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Governance of Cultural Property: Preservation and Recovery, Basel, Switzerland, 29-30 September 2009

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International Conferences

Concerned with the growing importance of governance issues in the area of cultural property management, the Basel Institute on Governance is broaching relevant topics at its forthcoming international conference.

Academics and practitioners from different fields covered interconnected issues ranging from the roles and responsibilities of museums, cultural property protection in conflict situations, the grey areas of the art business and the thin line between legality and misdemeanour, outright theft and money-laundering in the cultural assets trade, (inter)national legal means and voluntary initiatives aiming at the prevention of such unlawful acts and, finally, mechanisms of recovering stolen artefacts and the negotiations surrounding their potential repatriation.

The conference flyer is available here.

PROGRAMME

Day 1 (29 September 2009)
REGISTRATION

For further information, please visit
www.baselgovernance.org/gocp

Contact:
nina.schild@baselgovernance.org
Tel. +41 (0)61 205 55 13

8.30 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.15 Opening

* Dr Thomas Christ, Board Member, Basel Institute on Governance

9.15 – 10.15 Opening Plenary

* Mr Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, Director, Federal Office for Culture, Switzerland

* Dr Samuel Sidibé, Director, Musée National du Mali

* Mr Ben Janssens, Chairman, European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)

* Chair: Dr Thomas Christ, Board Member, Basel Institute on Governance

10.15 – 10.30 Discussion

10.30 – 10.50 Keynote address

* Mr Lawrence M. Kaye, Lawyer, New York

10.50 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 11.30 Introduction to the workshops

11.30 – 13.00 Session 1 (parallel workshops):


Workshop 1: The Role of Museums and Collections

* Representative of the Musée du quai Branly, Paris (tbc)

* Mr Lorenz Homberger, Curator, Africa Department, Museum Rietberg, Zurich

* Prof Dr Peter Blome, Director, Antikenmuseum Basel

* Mr Christian Manhart, Chief, Section of Museums and Cultural Objects, UNESCO

* Chair: Dr Thomas Christ, Board Member, Basel Institute on Governance

Workshop 2: Art Business: Where to draw the line?

* Prof Dr Till Förster, Board Member, Basel Institute on Governance

* Mr Jean-David Cahn, Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel

* Dr Sandro Calvani, Director UNICRI, Turin

* Chair: Prof Dr Stefano Manacorda, Scientific Coordinator of ISPAC-International

Scientific and Advisory Council of the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

Programme

Workshop 3: International Conventions and National Laws (CH)

* Prof Dr Pierre Lalive, Representative of UNIDROIT

* Mr Benno Widmer, Head of ‘International Transfer of Cultural Property’, Swiss Federal

Office for Culture

* Prof Dr Kurt Siehr, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht,

Hamburg

* Chair: PD Dr iur Beat Schönenberger, Lecturer, University of Basel

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 Session 2 (parallel workshops):

Workshop 4: Alternative Solutions to Restitution Processes

* Mrs Claudia von Selle, Lawyer, Berlin

* PD Dr iur Beat Schönenberger, Lecturer, University of Basel

* Mr Alexander Brust, Curator, America Department, Museum der Kulturen, Basel

* Mrs Monica Dugot, Senior Vice President Christies

* Chair: Dr. Peter Mosimann, Lawyer

Workshop 5: Self-Regulation and Voluntary Codes

* Mrs France Terrier, Vice-President, ICOM, Switzerland

* Dr Ursula M. Kampmann, International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art

* Dr Samuel Sidibé, Director, Musée National du Mali

* Chair: Mrs Anne Lugon-Moulin, Executive Director, Basel Institute on Governance

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 17.45 Reports from the workshops

* Workshop speakers/facilitators

* Chair: Prof Dr Anne Peters, Board Member, Basel Institute on Governance

17.45 – 18.00 Closure of the first day

* Prof Dr Marc-André Renold, Director, Centre du droit de l’art, Geneva

19.00 – 22.00 Conference dinner, Restaurant Kunsthalle, Basel

* Dinner speech by Prof Dr Antonio Loprieno, Rector, University of Basel

Day 2 (30 September 2009)

8.30 – 8.45 Keynote address

* Dr Andrea Raschèr, Consultant, Raschèr Consulting, Zürich

8.45 – 9.00 Introduction to the workshops

9.00 – 10.30 Session 3 (parallel workshops):

Workshop 6: Technical Aspects of Recovery / Money Laundering

* Mrs Loide Lungameni, Legal Officer, Organized Crime and Criminal Justice Section,

UNODC

* Mr Karl-Heinz Kind, Team Leader, Works of Art Unit, Interpol

* Mrs Laurence Massy, Belgian Police

* Chair: Mr Daniel Thelesklaf, Executive Director, Basel Institute on Governance

Workshop 7: Protection of Cultural Properties in Conflict Situations

* Mr Christophe Jacobs, International Committee of the Blue Shield

* Dr Jean-Robert Gisler, Federal Police, member of INTERPOL Tracking Task Force to

Fight Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property Stolen in Iraq (ITTF )

* Mr Christian Manhart, Chief, Section of Museums and Cultural Objects, UNESCO

* Chair: Mrs Claudia von Selle, Lawyer, Berlin

10.30 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00 Workshop reports to the plenary

* Workshop facilitators

* Chair: Prof Dr Anne Peters, Board Member, Basel Institute on Governance

12.00 – 13.00 Closing plenary

* Prof Neil Brodie, Director, Cultural Heritage Resource, Stanford University Archaeology

Center

* Prof Dr Mark Pieth, Chairman, Basel Institute on Governance

* Closure of the conference

14.00 – 16.00 Guided Tour in a Basel Museum (optional)

* Museum der Kulturen Basel

* Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Prof Dr Peter Blome, Director

* Fondation Beyeler

 

 

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