02 - 03 December 2022
Conference Venue: An der Universität 7/Room 01.05

Registration
Registration for person attendance of the conference is open from 07 to 21 November 2022.
Registration for remote access to the conference is open from 07 to 30 November 2022.
Please register via email: conflict.kdwt(at)uni-bamberg.de
Programme
02 December 2022
Registration starting at 11:00 a.m.
Coffee break
12:30 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
12:45–01:30 p.m. Keynote: Johanna Blokker (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg): Heritage Between Consensus, Contestation and Conflict
02:00–03:00 p.m. Panel I: The Impact of Conflicts on Migration and the Interpretation of Heritage
Chair and Discussant: Laura Demeter/Sophie Stackmann (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies, University of Bamberg)
- Alice Fabris, Cultural Heritage of Migrants: the Case of the Seizure of Japanese and German Cultural Institutions in Brazil During the Second World War
- Laurent Dissard (University of Toulouse), Cultural Heritage and Human Rights in Eastern Turkey
- Zainab Musa Shallangwa (University of Maiduguri (Borno State, Nigeria)), The Aftermath: Insights on the Complexities of Forced Displacement and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
- Galit Noga-Banai (Hebrew University Jerusalem), The Duration of a Memory: Generational Conflicts around the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg
03:00–03:30 p.m. Q&A
Coffee break
04:00–05:00 p.m. Panel II: Discourses on Ethics and Values on Heritage in Times of Conflict
Chair: Carmen Enss (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies, University of Bamberg)
Discussant: Sophie Stackmann (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies, University of Bamberg)
- Aida Murtic (Heidelberg University), Sarajevo and its Historic Centre: Two Nomination Files and a War in Between
- Ivan Kislenko (University of Graz), Sociological Heritage Re-considered: Isolationist Aspirations in Russian Sociology
05:00–5:30 p.m. Q&A
05:30 p.m. City tour
Dinner
03 December 2022
10:00–11:00 a.m. Panel III: Heritage Protection beyond the Law
Chair: Cornelia Thielmann (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies, University of Bamberg)
Discussant: Laura Demeter (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies, University of Bamberg)
- Sara Dal Monico (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), The Fine Line between Cultural Genocide and Ecocide: the Destruction of Natural Heritage
- Nelly Bekus (Exeter University), Criminalisation of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Post-World War II Order: Perspective of Socialist States
- Gruia Bădescu (University of Konstanz), A new Charter for Heritage: ICOMOS and the Redefinition of Policy and Practice in the Aftermath of Conflict and Beyond
- Mischa Gureghian Hall (University of California, Los Angeles), Can Statutes Save Statues? A Critical Assessment of International Legal Protections for Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict
11:00–11:30 a.m. Q&A
11:30–01:00 p.m. Lunch break
01:00–02:00 p.m. Panel IV: Negotiating Heritage in the Wars in Ukraine and Syria
Chair: Ana Marija Grbanovic (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies, University of Bamberg)
Discussant: Julie Deschepper (Utrecht University)
- Edward Salo (Arkansas State University), Taking their Heritage and their Stories: How Russia has “Weaponized” Heritage Sites as Part of its Information Warfare Campaign against Ukraine
- Zoya Masoud (TU Berlin), A Vivid Victory over a Ghost City: Discourses of Heritage and Memory Preservation in the Shade of the Syrian war
- Ilya Sulzhytski (University of Greifswald), The Influence of 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Debates over Babyn Yar Memorial and the Holocaust Heritage
- Oxana Gourinovitch (RWTH Aachen), Sharing the Loss: Notes on the Transnational Heritage Activism During the War in Ukraine
02:00–02:30 p.m. Q&A
Coffee break
03:00-03:30 p.m. Roundtable
Farewell
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