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From 4 to 6 April 2024, the Centre for Advanced Study hosted the workshop “Protecting and accessing cultural goods in wartime – Case Studies and Lessons from Armenia and Ukraine” (scientific organisation:  Ruben Apressyan).

War not only threatens the lives and physical integrity of people; cultural goods are also at risk of damage and total loss during war. Protecting them in the event of war is an important task for every community, and digitalisation enables new forms and modes of preserving cultural goods or their blueprints that give people access to them in times of war and even more so afterwards. Based on examples and experiences from Armenia and Ukraine, the workshop discussed practical questions and ethical aspects of the protection of cultural goods during war.

The workshop is part of the research project “How to Deal with Cultural Goods in War and Post-war Times: An Ethical Analysis”– directed by Ruben Apressyan – as part of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The poster for the workshop can be downloaded here (PDF file).

Programme

The folder can be downloaded here (PDF file).

Thursday, 4 April 2024

Chair: Eberhard Ortland

10.00 am
Protecting and Accessing Cultural Goods in Wartime: Case Studies and Lessons from Armenia and Ukraine. A Short Introductory Note
Reinold Schmücker (Münster, GER)

10.15 am
Protecting Cultural Property: Normative Dispositions
Ruben Apressyan (Münster, GER)

11.15 am
Coffee Break

11.30 am
Safeguarding Cultural Goods in Wartime. Ethical Perspectives
Lukas Daum (Münster, GER)

12.30 pm
Lunch

02.00 pm
Protecting Cultural Heritage During the Wartime: Social-Philosophical Aspects
Marina Bykova (Raleigh, USA)

03.00 pm
Coffee break

03.30 pm
UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Heritage and its Implications in Pakistan
Arslan Sheikh (Islamabad, PAK/Münster, GER)

04.30–05.00 pm
Discussion

07.00 pm
Dinner

 

Friday, 5 April 2024

Chair: Ursula Frohne

10.00 am
Lost Cultural Heritage in Russian-Ukrainian War: Cases and Tendencies
Mariya Rohozha (Kyiv, UKR)

11.00 am
Coffee Break

11.15 am
The SUCHO Ukrainian War Memes Archive: An International Effort in Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage in Wartime
Anna Rakityanskya (Cambridge, USA)

12.15 pm
Lunch

02.00 pm
Digitalization of the Local Community: A Culture of Vigilance in Wartime Conditions
Olena Pavlova (Kyiv, UKR/Berlin, GER)    

03.00 pm
Coffee Break

03.30 pm
Historical Technologies Destroyed by Russia: The Consequences of the Occupation of Crimea (via Zoom)
Denys Yashny (Kyiv, UKR)

04.30–05.00 pm
Discussion

07.00 pm
Dinner


Saturday, 6 April 2024

Chair: Maria Engelskirchen

10.00 am
Issues of Cultural Heritage Protection During the War: The Experience of monumentwatch.org Academic Platform
Hamlet Petrosyan (Yerevan, ARM)

11.00 am
Coffee Break

11.15 am
Refugee Heritage: Monuments, Museums and Private Collections in a New Reality
Haykuhi M. Muradyan (Yerevan, ARM)

12.15 pm
Lunch

01.45 pm
Signs, Symbols and Monuments in Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict
Anush Safaryan (Yerevan, ARM)

02.45–03.00 pm
Protecting and Accessing Cultural Goods in Wartime: What’s Next? Closing Remarks
Ruben Apressyan (Münster, GER)