Workshop on the Human Dimension of Cultural Heritage

A colleague in Florence has passed along this event at the European University Institute in Florence, this Friday December 18th. Looks to be a terrific event this week:

• 10.00 Welcome to the participants and introduction to the workshop by Professors Francesco Francioni, Laura Pineschi, and Tullio Scovazzi
• 10.10-11.00
• Francesco Francioni (European University Institute), The Contribution of International Law to the Development of a Human Dimension of Cultural Heritage
• Tullio Scovazzi (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Recent Developments in the Fields of Intangible and Underwater Cultural Heritage
• Ana Vrdoljak (University of Western Australia), Illicit Traffic of Cultural Objects and Human Rights
• Coffee break
• 11.15-12.00
• Federico Lenzerini (Università di Siena), Indigenous Peoples Cultural Rights vs. Cultural Heritage”: A Hard-to-Settle Tension?
• Alessandro Chechi (European University Institute), Cultural Cooperation: A Revolutionary Tool for the Safeguarding of the Common Heritage of Humankind?
• Uladzislau Belavusau (European University Institute), Freedom of Expression, Art and Pornography
• General discussion
• 12.15-13.00
• Patrizia Vigni (Università di Siena), Claims To Discovered Shipwrecks: Restitution, Return or Something Else?
• Valentina S. Vadi (Maastricht University), The Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Investment Law
• Nicola Ferri (Università di Milano-Bicocca), The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage According to the General Assembly Resolution
• General Discussion
• Lunch Break
• 14.30-15.15
• Adriana Bessa Rodrigues (European University Institute), No Culture, NoHeritage: The International Regime on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing and Potential Threats to the Preservation of Local Cultures
• Sabrina Urbinati (Università di Milano-Bicocca), (on intangibile heritage)
• Mery Ciacci (European University Institute), The EU Ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: New Challenges and New Implications for the EU
• General discussion
• 15.30-16.30
• Riccardo Pavoni (Università di Siena), Developing Individual Criminal Responsibility for Wartime Offences against Cultural Property: The Italian Measures Implementing the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention
• Micaela Frulli (Università di Firenze), International Criminal Law to the Protection of Cultural Heritage
• Robert Peters (European University Institute), Defining Common Grounds in the Trophy Art Debate between Germany and Russia
• Andrzej Jakubowski (European University Institute), Human and Cultural Heritage Aspects of State Succession: The Case of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• General discussion and final remarks by Professors Francesco Francioni, Laura Pineschi, and Tullio Scovazzi