PROGRAMME
Wednesday November 12
12.00–12.45 – press conference
17.00 – official opening of the conference
Welcome – prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Omilanowska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
Inaugural lecture – prof. dr hab. Jacek Purchla, Director of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow, Poland – Krakow 1939–1945 and its War Experiences
18.30 - Cocktail
Thursday November 13
9.00–12.30 – panel I: Polish Wartime Loss
Chair: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Rottermund (Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland)
9.00 – Key-note lecture – Lynn Nicholas (independent researcher, USA), Nazi Looting in Poland: Ideology and Practice
9.45 – prof. dr hab. Andrzej Mężyński (independent researcher, Poland), Art Looting in Occupied Territories: Centres for Decision-making, Conflicts of Competences, Results
10.05-10.20 COFFEE BREAK
10.20 – dr Mariusz Klarecki (independent researcher, Poland), Losses of Private Individuals Using the Example of Warsaw
10.40 – dr Paweł Libera (The Central Archives of Modern Records, Poland), Art Looting by Red Army
11.00 – dr Edyta Gawron (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Art Losses of Polish Jews
11.20 – dr hab. Maciej Matwijów (University of Wrocław, Poland), The Fate of Cultural Goods in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Republic (Interwar Poland)
11.40 – dr Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Harvard University, USA), Restitution Progress for WW2 Captured Archives in Moscow, but Why Haven’t Polish Records Gone Home?
12.00–12.30 – discussion
12.30-13.30 LUNCH BREAK
13.30–16.30 – panel II: Documentation of Wartime Loss and Provenance Research
Chair: Prof. dr Wolf Tegethoff (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany)
13.30 – Key-note lecture – dr Uwe Hartmann (Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzforschung, Germany), Wartime Loss Documentation and Provenance Research in Germany
14.00 – Karina Chabowska, Agata Modzolewska (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage the Republic of Poland), Wartime Loss Documentation of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage the Republic of Poland
14.20 – dr Christoph Bazil (Kommission für Provenienzforschung, Austria), Experiences of the Kommission für Provenienzforschung in the Field of the Wartime Loss Documentation, Conducting Provenance Research and Restitution Processes
14.40 – Evelien Campfens (Restitutions Committee, the Netherlands), The Dutch Approach to Nazi-looted Art Issues
15.00-15.20 COFFEE BREAK
15.20 – dr Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel (Taskforce Schwabinger Kunstfund, Germany), Looted Art – Still No End in Sight? The Gurlitt Case.
15.40 – Anne Webber (Commission for Looted Art, Great Britain), Experiences of the Commission for Looted Art in the Field of Wartime Loss Documentation, Conducting Provenance Research and Restitution Processes
16.00 – Jane Milosch (Provenance Research Initiative, Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, USA), Experiences of the American Cultural Institutions Gained in Provenance Research
16.20–16.45 –discussion
17.00–18.45 – special session – the Wawel Royal Castle
19.00 - Dinner at the Museum of Aviation (bus from the Royal Hotel)
21.30 – return
Friday November 14
9.00–13.00 – panel III: Restitution
Chair: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Waltoś (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
9.00 – Key-note lecture – Elżbieta Rogowska (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage the Republic of Poland), The Experiences of Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the Field of Restitution
9.30 – Katarzyna Zielińska (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland), Post-war Restitution of Cultural Goods to Poland (1945–1956)
9.50 – dr Andrzej Drozd (Law Practice Andrzej Drozd, Poland), Contemporary Problems of Restitution of Cultural Goods in Poland
10.10-10.40 COFFEE BREAK
10.40 – dr Agnes Peresztegi (Commission for Art Recovery, Hungary), Nazi Era Art Restitution: An Ongoing Challenge
11.00 – Thomas Kline (Andrews Kurth LLP, USA), The Specifics of American Legislation and Case-law in the Context of Restitution
11.20 – dr Felix Laurin Stang (Raue LLP, Germany), German Legislation and the Practice of the Settlements of Disputes Concerning the Return of the Cultural Goods Looted During the Second World War
11.40–13.00 –discussion
13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00–16.00 – discussion
Concluding remarks:
prof. dr hab. Jacek Purchla (International Cultural Centre in Krakow, Poland)
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Rottermund (Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland)
prof. dr Wolf Tegethoff (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany)
prof. dr hab. Stanisław Waltoś (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
16.00 – end of the conference
16.00 – 16.45 COFFEE BREAK
16.45–18.45 – workshop of the provenance research
Katarzyna Zielińska (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland)
Karolina Zalewska (independent researcher, Poland)
Saturday November 15
9.00 Visit in the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (bus from Matejki Sq.)
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