Islamic Manuscript Collections in Conflict Zones: Safeguarding Written Heritage, 5th to 7th October 2015
A course led by Dr Joris Kila, Chairman of the International Military Cultural Resources Working Group
The course will feature more than ten speakers drawn together for their theoretical and practical knowledge and diverse field experience. Case studies will examine incidents of manuscript and book destruction in Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, and Mali, while presentations and roundtables will survey the legal aspects of cultural property protection, military involvement, the destruction of memory, and the way forward.
Topics covered will include the 1954 Hague Convention; military operational planning processes; prosecuting cultural property crimes; developing and implementing no-strike lists; iconoclasm and the erasure of cultural memory; and looting and the trafficking of cultural artefacts.
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