"The Looting of Antiquities in Iraq Today: What is to be done?"
December 8, 2006 at 2:30 PM
University of Chicago Paris Center
6 rue Thomas Mann, Paris 13eme
Metro: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand (Line 14 and RER C)
Information: sgreppo@uchicago.edu
Responding to the disastrous looting of the Iraq National Museum and subsequent massive and ongoing pillaging of Mesopotamian archaeological sites, the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago is undertaking an initiative try to improve policies and legal regimes to better protect cultural heritage from looting in the aftermath of armed conflict. As part of that effort, the Chicago Paris Center is hosting a roundtable discussion with experts focusing on what is happening now in Iraq to that country's museums and archaeological sites, what the prospects ahead are, and what efforts are -- and are not -- being made to deal with the crisis.
Participants include:
* Neil Brodie, Research Director, Illicit Antiquities Research Centre,
Cambridge University.
* Lt. Col. Joris D. Kila, Network Manager for Cultural Affairs with the
Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) of the Netherlands Army and advisor for International Cultural Heritage.
* Guido Carducci, Chief, International Standards Section, Culture
Sector, UNESCO
* Gaetano Palumbo, Director of Archaeological Conservation Africa,
Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, World Monuments Fund.
* Anna Paolini, Program Specialist for Middle East Countries, Museum
Section, Division of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO
The roundtable will be moderated by Lawrence Rothfield, Faculty Director
of the Cultural Policy Center and editor of Preventing Post-Combat Looting of
Antiquities:
Learning the Lessons of Iraq (forthcoming from Alta Mira Press in 2007).
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Professor Lawrence Rothfield
Faculty Director
Cultural Policy Center
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7302
Visit the Cultural Policy Center website at http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/
Assyriologi - om oldtidens Irak, og den irakiske kulturarv
Irak-krigen har været en katastrofe for Iraks før-islamiske kulturarv.
Arkæologiske sites er bogstavligt talt blevet gennemhullet af røvere på jagt efter genstande, der - ofte på bestilling - kan afsættes til rige samlere i Vesten.
Resultatet: De gamle byhøje er forvandlede til nøgne månelandskaber; frarøvet den rige kulturarv, som de har bevaret i årtusinder.
For forskningen betyder det en uoprettelig skad. Historie uden kontekst!
Uden at vide, hvor og i hilken sammenhæng, som genstandene har indgået, bliver vi frataget den unikke mulighed, som vi har for at studere en af menneskehedens ældste højkulturer. Det avr her, at byer og skrift første gang så dagens lys for over 5000 år siden.
Her kan du se en film, om situationen i Irak: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3519855663545752103&q=The+Real+Iraq%3A&pr=goog-sl
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