Today, fourteen years after the signing of the Washington Principles, the debate about Nazi-looted art is still topical. The call for just and fair solutions and alternative dispute resolution in ownership disputes has led a number of countries to set up advisory committees or panels. For the first time, on the occasion of the tenth anniversa ry of the Dutch Restitutions Committee, five European advisory committees will meet in the Peace Palace in The Hague. 

The Restitutions Committee is taking this opportunity to organise a one-day symposium to evaluate the status quo of dispute resolution in Nazi-looted art cases in and beyond the countries that have installed advisory committees. Leading experts from different countries will participate in an interdisciplinary discussion to explore the question of how to reconcile the different interests of former and present owners. Attention will be focused on disputes involving one or more private parties, i.e. a natural person or a private-law entity, as opposed to problems relating to intergovernmental disputes.
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The Peace Conference 2012 will take place on November 7-9 2012 in Wageningen, The Netherlands,known as the 'City of Liberation' and 'The City of Life Sciences', and will last three days. Subjects thatwill be covered are: peace, tourism, cultural heritage, dark tourism, battlefield tourism, commemoration,commercialization, guilty landscape, culture of peace and regional development and sustainable development.

Confirmed speakers: Claudio Minca (Wageningen University and Research Centre) and Philip Stone (University ofCentral Lancashire) Registration for the Peace Conference 2012 is open. Early bird prices are available now. 

Call for Abstracts

The Liberation Day Committee 1945 Wageningen (as member of the European Network of Places of Peace),Wageningen University and Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, are organizing aninternational conference about peace, cultural heritage and regional development.

Conflicts sometimes lead to violent encounters that result in casualties and damage to infrastructure, housing andthe environment. Often, traumatic experiences brought about by these become the subject of commemorationsthat contribute to places linked to them gaining material and/or symbolic significance within the country orregionally. This is particularly true when residents and policymakers implement initiatives to embrace them aspart of collective memory, pedagogy and/or as local heritage attractions. Every year many thousands, sometimesmillions of people visit places like Ypres, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Choeung Ek and Gettysburg. Wageningen, markedas the City of Liberation, also attracts more than 100.000 visitors annually as part of national commemorationand liberation festivals in the Netherlands.

This conference seeks to further our understanding of the perceptions, processes and problems related to someof these places transformed into key sites for memory, education and consumption, or even commodification.Following a multidisciplinary approach during the conference social, political, economical and developmental aspects will be taken into account as well as other issues associated with the establishment of the memory sites.

It also explores how such sites may be developed as ‘peace institutions’ that aim to encourage the preventionof future conflicts. We welcome case studies drawn from the Netherlands as well as from other internationalcontexts.

Relevant topics may include (but not be limited to):

- Connections between memory, commemoration and identity;Historical geographies and genealogies of places of war and peace;
- Politics of trauma sites as heritage/tourism attractions;
- Visitor patterns at, and perspectives of, places of war and peace; 
- Social, economic and political impacts of places of war and peace;Educational potential of trauma sites, and related problems;
- Visitor management at places of war and peaceTrauma sites as peace museums and institutions; etc.

The scientific committee is currently accepting submissions. Paper presentations on all issues related to these topics are welcome. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.

Meer informatie: http://www.peaceconference.org/ 

Where: Istanbul, Turkey

Date: 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2012

Organisers: KULeuven Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies (GCIS), Intercultural Dialogue Platform (IDP) and Department of Sociology (Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul)

On 22-23 October, 2012, Walk of Truth will organize an International Conference on looted art at the Peace Palace, The Hague whereby an international summit of experts will address issues concerning the protection of cultural heritage and art trafficking in areas affected by conflict. Titled ‘Protecting Art from Crime, disputes and war’, this two-day conference aims to attract representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisations, law enforcement agencies and legal experts, who will tackle problems that have surfaced under the existing legal framework. The Conference will address the entire spectrum of issues related to crimes against cultural heritage: prevention, combat and prevention. It will also tell the story behind looted and ‘homeless’ artifacts and make concrete recommendations for the future.

The Conference 2012 Mission
The aim of the talks will be to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in cultural heritage protection, which include NGOs, law enforcement agencies and legal authorities, as well as museums, dealers, and owners of cultural property. Results of the conference will be summed up in a list of recommendations and a report will be published with the conclusions.

For more information on the Peace Palace Conference: http://walkoftruth.com/conference-2013/

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield is still a young organisation but the first term of office of the board elected in late 2008 has come to an end. Therefore, I cordially invite you to participate in the general assembly taking place from the 25th to the 27th of April 2012 in Vienna.The past years have rushed by quickly. We have been busy setting up the Association and getting things rolling: moving into an office in The Hague (we are currently moving again), getting the statutes passed, launching a website, building relations with ICBS, UNESCO and other partners, and much more. We, of course, worked on setting up a network of communication and cooperation among the national committees and to encourage and support the founding of new committees in many countries. Beyond that we worked hard to promote the basic ideas of Blue Shield in the public as well as in the international scientific and expert community.

We also took up the challenge and responded to disasters at a moment when we were just established. Our first mission, where we could gain experience as an organisation, was on the occasion of the collapse of the city archive in Cologne, Germany. Our biggest challenge, so far, was and is our mission to shaken Haiti. Recently we invested much effort in our fact finding missions to Egypt and Libya. But beyond these more intensive ventures we observed and reacted to many other crises, like the earthquakes in Chile, Italy or New Zealand, the war in Georgia and the Gaza Strip, and others.

Nonetheless, we want to become better, more efficient, and more involved. One key to this goal is your participation in the general assembly. Beside the necessary and vitally important day with reports from the ANCBS board and from ICBS as well as from the national committees and other organisations participating, we have prepared for an interesting programme that is attractive for experts from all fields of cultural property protection.

Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen

Ce séminaire scientifique a pour objectif de présenter les actions de conservation et de mise en valeur du patrimoine en Palestine, notamment dans le domaine de l'archéologie, à partir des vestiges du monastère de Saint Hilarion à Umm el-'Amr (Bande de Gaza). Une action de coopération scientifique franco-palestinienne, sollicitée par le ministère du Tourisme et des Antiquités de Palestine, soutenue par le Consulat de France à Jérusalem, a été mise en place et donne lieu à un projet ambitieux d'étude de site et de formation d'archéologues et restaurateurs palestiniens en lien avec l'Université islamique de Gaza. Le séminaire permettra également de faire connaître les actions et les acteurs de la mise en valeur du patrimoine sur l'ensemble du territoire palestinien : Naplouse, Bethléem, Hébron, centre historique de Gaza ...

: La mise en valeur du patrimoine en Palestine, 15-16 mars 2012 , Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, Salle Dussane

ARCA (Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is an interdisciplinary think tank/research group on contemporary issues in art crime. This international non-profit organization studies issues in art crime and cultural property protection, runs educational programs, and consults on art protection and recovery issues brought to them by police, governments, museums, places of worship, and other public institutions.

Paper submission for full papers28th of May, 2012 (24:00 London-UK time)
Paper submission for project and short paper28th of May, 2012 (24:00 London-UK time)
Proposals for showcases28th of May, 2012 (24:00 London-UK time)
Website

_Call for paper: Territorial Development, Heritage and Tourism in Sensitive and Threatened Areas
Dejerba Tunisia, November 2012
Call for paper before the 2nd of January
More information

http://www.icbs2011seoul.org/
8- 20 december 2011
The theme of the Conference, Protecting the World's Cultural Heritage in Times of Change: Emergency Preparedness and Response.

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_Art crime during Armed Conflict: Continuing Education Summer course
This course will focus on art crime during times of armed conflict. It will examine particular crimes against art during times of war, ranging over 2000 years, from Classical Antiquity right through to the wars in Iraq/ Afghanistan, placing them in their historical contexts. It will examine the international legal responses to such crimes, and consider aspects of available private law remedies that seek to redress earlier art crimes.
13- 77 February 2012
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Socio-Legal Studies Association conference at De Montfort University Leicester on April 3-5th 2012.
Convenors, Professor Janet Ulph ju13@leicester.ac.uk University of Leicester and Charlotte Woodhead c.c.woodhead@warwick.ac.uk University of Warwick. This theme seeks to bring together discourse on the interface between, art, culture, heritage and the law. To this end papers will be welcomed concerning the legal and non-legal regulation of art, culture and heritage as well as the rights which exist in respect of these. Furthermore, participants may wish to engage in debates concerning the role played by morality in the context of preservation of the past and the need to curb the illicit trade in cultural objects.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 16th  January 2012. Abstracts submitted by this deadline will receive a decision to enable early registration by 31st January 2012.
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On October 20th, GHF hosted The Forum on Cultural Heritage in a Developing World at Spencer House in London, England.  The forum’s aims were to develop awareness among a select group of influential decision makers about the threats facing many cultural heritage sites across the developing world; identify innovative solutions to protect, preserve and manage these sites; and multiply funding for heritage preservation in these regions.

Memories and heritage of immigration
Nov 2011 - June 2012
Séminaire du IIAC/Centre Edgar Morin à l'EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

Memory of happyness, painful heritage: places, arts and games
Quai Branly Museum, Paris
December, 13th and 14th 2011

“The representation of war in recent conflicts: aesthetic, ethical and political issues”
International Conference
University of Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle, France,
Deadline November the 1st
November 22-23, 2012
Download the call for paper

Litigation in cultural property: judicial and alternative means of international dispute resolution
Friday, November 11, 2011
Geneva University
E-mail: art-droit@unige.ch
Dowload the program

As  2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812, the 2012 AAO conference programme will take as its theme “Conflict and Commemoration.”  This timely theme provides an opportunity for archivists to explore the intersection of our mission and work with conflict, in its broadest sense, and commemoration. 
Archives across the province house collections that document the conflicts -– be they armed or non-violent, formal or unofficial -- that have shaped our communities and our province.  Ontarians have participated in Canada’s armed conflicts (the War of 1812, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, for example), and have been a part of conflict stemming from social, class, religious and other types of difference and discord.  Archives and archivists have a significant role to play in the commemoration of events like wars, rebellions, strikes, social unrest, schisms, and persecutions. 

The 2012 AAO Conference in Torontowill explore the issues associated with collecting and making available archival records that document conflict, and discuss the ways in which archives can and do participate in the commemoration of these events.  The Programme Committee invites proposals on the themes including, but not limited to the following: 

-  Collection development challenges and opportunities in documenting conflict 
-  How have conflicts been documented in the past?  What are the challenges for documenting conflict in the 21st century?
-  Collaborations between archives, museums, libraries and other partners to commemorate and interpret conflicts such as the War of 1812
-  Experiences and challenges documenting ongoing social, class, labour or religious conflict
-  Outreach programmes including exhibits and educational programming that commemorate conflict
-  The acquisition or use of non-textual media, such as documentary art and maps, to enhance our understanding of war and conflicts
-  Ethical issues archivists face in interpreting war and other conflicts

The Program Committee will accept both individual submissions for papers as well as proposals for sessions consisting of two or three participants and a chairperson. Proposals should include the name of the speaker(s), job title(s), institution(s), title of the paper(s) as well as a description of the paper or session. Submissions should not exceed 300 words in length.   

THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS NOVEMBER 18, 2011.


Session proposals and any questions should be directed to the Programme Chair: 

Julia Hendry
Head, Archives and Special Collections
WilfridLaurierUniversity
jhendry@wlu.ca


   

National museums and the negotiation of difficult pasts
26-27 January 2012, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Please send proposals of no more than 500 words, for 20 minute presentations to eunamus3@gmail.com or Felicity.Bodenstein@univ-Paris1.fr by the 14th of November 2011.

 American Academy in Rome Rome
Friday, 4 November 2011 - 9:00am - Saturday, 5 November 2011 - 3:00pm
Villa Aurelia
Rome

La construction sociale du « post-conflit » à travers les jeux d'acteurs
University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
9 November 2011, Paris, France

Conference: Future Wars, Imagined Wars: Towards a Cultural History of the pre-1914 Period
International  conference organised by the Centre de Recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre, the lnstitut Historique allemand de Paris, the  Gerda Henkel Fondation, the Institut Universitaire de France, the Université de Picardie – Jules Verne and the Centre for First World War Studies.
9 november 2011, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne
10 november 2011, Institut Historique allemand, Paris

Call for paper: 16th SOMA on Mediterranean archeology  "Identity - Connectivity"
Papers will be grouped in different sessions dedicated to the different regions of the Mediterranean:

1. Western Mediterranean
2. Central Mediterranean
3. Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
4. Near East and Egypt
5. Mediterranean Interactions
For further information, registration procedure and submission of abstracts  (deadline: 15 January 2012)
visit the web site: www.soma2012florence.net
or feel free to write to:info@soma2012florence.net

Call for paper: Politics of home, identity and transnationalism in the Congolese diaspora
Before the 10th of September 2011
Themes:
•The intersection between religion and politics in the Congolese transnational field
• Identities in diaspora, in relation to nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, class or
popular culture
• Role of diaspora in the 2011 elections
• Circulation of ideas and images between the Congo and the diaspora
• Mobility of pastors, politicians and elites
• Long-distance nationalism and radical politics in the diaspora

The 1st World Humanities Forum November 24-26th 2011
Korean National Commission for Unesco

Event date: 08 November 2011/  09 November 2011
Location: Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham.

The Great War today. Heritage, places, tourism..October 2011 - June 2012
University of Cergy-Pontoise. Ministry of Defense
Paris

The Caucasus and Central Asia, twenty years after independences: Questioning the notion of “South countries”
International conference, Almaty, August 25-27, 2011

Tolerance and cultural interactions in the Balkans
Sofia, 8-9 July 2011
Balkan Forum, Journalists AssociationWorking languages: English and Bulgarian

Revues Tracés, Diaspora
La revue Tracés consacre son numéro 23 à la notion de diaspora. Ce numéro souhaite faire dialoguer des contributions empiriques, réflexives et / ou épistémologiques afin d'interroger la place et l'intérêt d'une telle notion dans les différentes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales.
Deadline;  23rd,  December 2011. French. 

Corpses and Mass Violence: A multidiscplinary approach
Sciences-Po, Paris, 23rd-24th of June 2011

• Élisabeth Anstett, Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (CNRS-EHESS-Inserm-UP13)
  

• Jean-Marc Dreyfus, University of Manchester, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, Department of Religions and Theology

Enfants en temps de guerre et littératures de jeunesse
Children in war time and youth litterature
English, French and Spanish
Call for paper before the 30th of September 2011

Culture et contre-culture : genèses, pratiques, conceptualisations
English, German, French
Call for paper before the 15th of September 2011Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,

Conflict and peace in a changing international context
Funding opportunities, matchmaking, networking in FP76-7 
July 2011, Brussels, Belgium
University Foundation Club, rue d'Egmont 11

"National identity and cultural minorities in France, Germany and the UK: critical perspectives. " 15-16th March, 2012
Call for paper before the 20th of June 2011
Université Paris Descartes (IUT),  GRER-ICT (Groupe de Recherche sur l’Eugénisme et le Racisme, Université Paris Diderot, unité de recherche 337, « identités, cultures et territoires »)

La Shoah au prisme des médias

CIERA, Paris, 29th of June- 2nd of July
Organised by: Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, Goethe-Institut Paris, CIERA, Paris, Hebrew University – Center for German Studies, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Medienwissenschaft, Netzwerk Mediologie

Personal Memoirs
10-12, November, 2011
Barcelona,  Institut d’Estudios Catalans

Crossroads in cultural studies 2012
July 2-6, 2012
UNESCO- Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Call for papers before September 30, 2011

The frontiers between christian and islamic worlds, new approaches : the territorialization, from war to peace
June 2- 4 ,  2011 - Pamela, Portugal 

• UMR 6223 (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Univ. Poitiers)
• École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)
• Gabinete de Estudos sobre a Ordem de Santiago (Município de Palmela) 

Preserving Memory:Documenting and Archiving Latin American Human Rights.
May 28- June 1, 2011

Memory and City Conference: Johannesburg - 14-16th September 2011
Call for papers: Deadline extended to 25 April 2011

GHF Presents:
Seminar on Global Heritage Conservation
and Sustainable Development 

Dealing with the past: justice and reconciliation in the Western 
Balkans European Policy Centre
Bruxelles 5th of May 2011. Speaker(s): 
Natasha Kandic, Founder, Executive Director, Belgrade Humanitarian Law Centre
Pierre Mirel, Director for Western Balkans, DG Enlargement, European Commission
Iavor Rangelov, Global Security Research Fellow, London School of Economics; Co-Chair, London Transitional Justice Network

SICYUrb – Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers
Submission until May 15th
T01 – City in movement: Participation, activism and identity
T02 – City and Culture in Action: Politics, Practices and Cultural Identities
T03 – Mobility and urban flows: from transnational movements to virtual flows
T04 - Making the city work: agency in a changing world
T05 – (Re)producing urban fabric
T06 – Building and living the urban space: conflict, inequality and coexistence in the enlarged city
T07 – Space as relation: cities and their multiple territoriesT08 - From collaborative research to public knowledge

Call for applications for the IV° edition of the Master in "World Heritage at Work"The call for applications for the IV° edition of the Master in "World Heritage at Work", offered by the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin and the International Training Centre of ILO, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, is now open.

Candidates who are interested should duly fill-in an application form (http://p31.itcilo.org/masters/worldheritage/home) and submit it by e-mail or fax no later than 29 April 2011.

ICOMOS 17th General Assembly, 2011, Paris, France (27th November - 2nd December)
"Heritage: driver of development "

Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: From the Holocaust to the Haitian Earthquake
March 2, 2011 — Kimberly Alderman