Conference on the Ownership and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/culturalheritage04.htm
The conference will provide a forum for exploring the legal and social
issues confronted by museums and libraries in their handling of cultural
heritage. The focus will be on the issues of ownership and repatriation, as
examined by a interdisciplinary panels of nationally-recognized scholars.
Visit our web site for full program details. Keynote and all conference
events are free of charge and open to the public; registration is required.
Keynote event: April 1, 2004
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, 25 Nottingham Court, Buffalo.
5:30-6:00 p.m. reception & book sale
6:00-7:30 p.m. keynote address: Hector Feliciano, author of "The Lost
Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art,"
Conference: April 2, 2004
Screening Room, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus
9:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Panels:
Cultural Material: Property or Heritage?
Guarding the Guardians of Culture
Holocaust Era Assets
Native American and Indigenous Peoples Artifacts
Conference organizers are Carole Ann Fabian, director of the Educational
Technology Center, Shubha Ghosh, associate professor of law, and Sandra
Olsen, director of the UB Art Galleries.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy,
UB Libraries, the Law School; the departments of Anthropology and Art
History; the Canadian-American Studies Committee; the Institute for Jewish
Thought, and the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society.
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Carole Ann Fabian
Director
Educational Technology Center
212 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-2200
ph: (716) 645-7700 ext. 2
fax: (716) 645-6207
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