Heritage Protection I
This is the first of four 2-day workshops on Heritage Protection and Management. Two PhD Fellows from the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, Joanne Dingwall McCafferty and Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen, host the workshops.
Over the past decade, the relationship between culture and conflict has shifted yet again – cultural heritage, whether tangible or intangible is now very much at the centre of many global conflicts. Despite, the subject of cultural heritage protection during times of armed conflict receiving greater attention via the media and in the drafting of legislation designed to improve safeguarding measures, conflict remains the defining heritage issue of our age.
Programme
Monday 21 October
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee and tea:
10:20 – 10:45 Opening of the workshop
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
10:45 – 11:45 The relationship between conflict and culture
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
11:45 – 12:15 Discussion
Chaired by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Blue Shield International
Dr. Emma Cunliffe
14:00 – 14:15 Question and Answer / Discussion
Dr. Emma Cunliffe
14:15 – 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 – 15:30 Trafficking cultural objects and human rights
Dr Donna Yates
15:30 – 15:45 Question and Answer / Discussion
Dr. Donna Yates
15:45 – 16:00 Closing remarks
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
Tuesday 22 October
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee and tea
10:20 – 10:45 Opening of the workshop
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
10:45 – 11:45 The role of civil society in heritage safeguarding
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
11:45 – 12:15 Discussion
Chaired by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 ISIS and iconoclasm
Terne Nanna Thorsen
14:00 – 14:15 Question and Answer / Discussion
Terne Nanna Thorsen
14:15 – 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 – 15:30 The role of the military in heritage safeguarding
Dr. Frederik Rosén
15:30 – 15:45 Question and Answer / Discussion
Dr. Frederik Rosén
15:45 – 16:00 Closing remarks
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
Biographies
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty, PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen / National Museum of Denmark
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty graduated with an MSc Art History: Collecting and Provenance in an International Context (with Distinction) from the University of Glasgow in 2017. Her Master’s thesis provided an analysis of the UK’s ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and what form the UK’s approach to cultural heritage protection would take post ratification. Following this, Joanne spent time working with the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative in Washington D.C., focusing on ways to help convey the educational value of provenance research to both the public and the Smithsonian community.
Financed by the Hermod Lannungs Fond, Joanne is undertaking a PhD, supervised by both Dr. Tobias Richter of the University of Copenhagen, and Peter Pentz of the National Museum of Denmark. Her research explores how current UNESCO policy and procedures on cultural heritage protection during armed conflict in the Middle East, actively implement heritage safeguarding measures, and whether there are areas that need to be improved to allow for greater effectiveness. At the University of Copenhagen, Joanne is designing an International Summer School on Heritage Protection in Urban Warfare.
Joanne is also a Researcher at The Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict (CHAC), which assists international organisations, governments, military, museums and the academic community in developing better approaches to the changing role of cultural heritage in 21st century armed conflicts. Within CHAC, Joanne has contributed to academic meetings at NATO HQ on the integration of heritage protection in military operations.
Dr. Emma Cunliffe, Research Associate, Newcastle University / Blue Shield International / UK Blue Shield
Dr. Emma Cunliffe is a Research Associate working to support the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace. The majority of her work focuses on the Blue Shield Association, developing ways to support the armed forces to protect sites in the event of armed conflict and natural disasters, although she also works to examine site damage and in peacetime. The Blue Shield is developing ways to safeguard heritage during peace, and to promote respect for it during and after conflict, developing the implementation of national and international law.
Dr. Cunliffe’s PhD is from Durham University, using satellite imagery to analyse site damage in Syria in peacetime, looking at how the threats to archaeological sites have changed since the 1960s, but this expanded to include the devastation of the current conflict, and then broadened into global studies of heritage in conflict. She has extensive experience in remote sensing and analysis of geo-spatial data, specialising in the Middle East, and has published widely on this academically and in a number of public magazines and journals.
Dr. Cunliffe has worked as a consultant for UNOSAT, analysing satellite imagery of damage to Syria’s cultural heritage sites during the ongoing conflict. She is part of the AHRC-funded Heritage in War Project, with the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, which works with others in fields of military ethics, law, politics, and security studies to share expertise and enhance their research.
Dr Cunliffe is the Secretariat for Blue Shield International, the Secretary of UK Blue Shield, and a member of the British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) and of the World Archaeological Congress, and she is an Associate member of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr. Donna Yates, Senior Lecturer based at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow
Donna Yates has recently been awarded a €1.5 million European Research Council starting grant to study how objects influence criminal networks, with a particular focus on objects such as antiquities, fossils, and rare and collectible wildlife. She's interested in what draws people to these "criminogenic collectibles", how they interact with them, and how these objects may inspire crimes.
Dr Yates is also a member of the Trafficking Culture Research Consortium, a group of researchers that works to produce evidence-based information about the global illicit trade in cultural goods. She has conducted research in this area for the European Commission and has provided expert consultation, training, and advice to multiple governments and agencies, and relevant intergovernmental organisations such as UNESCO and UNODC.
From 2012–2015 Dr Yates held Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a Core Fulbright Award to study the trafficking of Latin American antiquities. This project focused on the relationship between communities, governments, the law, and the operation of transnational criminal markets and to help develop regulatory mechanisms for controlling the illicit antiquities trade in that region, based on fieldwork in Bolivia, Belize, and Mexico. Her other antiquities trafficking field research includes work in Guatemala, Nepal, and Greece.
Donna Yates completed her PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2012 looking at the legal, social, and political construction of archaeology and heritage in the rapidly changing social and political climate of modern Bolivia. Her first degree was in Archaeology at Boston University with a focus on Mesoamerica. She went on to complete an MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museums at Cambridge. Her MPhil thesis documented the market for illicit South American antiquities at US-based auctions.
Terne Nanna Thorsen, PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen
Through a case study of the Islamic State's destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria, Terne investigates and theorises the modern destruction of art and cultural heritage. It is her hypothesis that the destruction of cultural heritage is closely linked to its use and that the destruction of the Islamic State reflects this. Her research addresses the pressing challenges such as attacks on and destruction of cultural heritage facing museums and policy makers.
Dr. Frederik Rosén, Managing Director, Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict
Dr. Rosén directed the NATO Science for Peace and Security Project on Best Practices for Cultural Property Protection in NATO-led Military Operations (2014-2017). Besides his wide international engagement in the agenda related to the cultural heart and armed conflict, he has led projects on the protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping and Capacity Development in Post-Conflict States. Dr. Rosén has published widely on international security and international law, and has profound experience with working with state authorities and international organisations.
Registration
Attending the workshop is free of charge.
The number of participants is limited to 20 per day.
To register, please email mccafferty@hum.ku.dk
When registering, please state your full name, whether you are affiliated to the National Museum of Denmark or a university. Please also state whether you would like to attend one or both days of the workshop. In case you attend one day only, please state which one.
Key literature, amounting to approx. five articles, will be circulated a week before the workshop.
About the Workshop Series
The workshop series will benefit from the input of various international scholars and professionals in the field of heritage protection, representing a wide range of disciplines, such as archaeology, criminology, art history, conservation, political science and law. During each workshop, we will be able to hear about current research, and firsthand accounts of key international organisations who are at the centre on this global issue, as well as have a forum for discussion on each topic brought by each presenter. In this first workshop, topics will range from the relationship between conflict and culture, the governing legislation, antiquities trafficking, and the role of civil society, non-state actors, and the military in heritage safeguarding.
Two PhD Fellows from the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, Joanne Dingwall McCafferty and Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen, host these workshops.
Each workshop lasts for two days.
About the organisers
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty’s research focuses the role of UNESCO in the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflict in the Middle East, while Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen’s research explores how the securitisation of cultural heritage has drawn museums into work areas normally falling under defence and security.