Cultural Heritage and Armed conflict

December 5, 2016

Today as conflicts rage in the world and opposite ideologies are at war, we see historical cultural treasures disappearing. What are the laws and texts in place to protect those places and how effective are they? Is it possible to better protect this heritage? Is technology part of the solution? All of these questions were addressed by a panel of experts from different regions of the globe.
With Hugh Eakin, Senior Editor at New York Review of Books with extensive reporting on this issue, Philippe de Montebello, LFNY alumnus and professor of Art History at NYU’s Institute of History of Fine Arts and former director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edouard Planche, a legal expert in the protection of cultural heritage at UNESCO, Salam Al Kuntar, a research fellow at the Penn Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of the Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq Project and Navina Najat Haydar, curator in The Met’s department of Islamic Art since 1999.

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