Monday, April 10
09.30-10.00 Registration of the participants
10.00-10.30 Opening
Opening Address: Ekaterina U. Genieva, Director General of the Library for Foreign Literature

Papers: I Panel 10.30-13.15
Chair Ekaterina Genieva

Issue of Restitution through the Eyes of Different Generations
Alexei Komech (State Institute of Art Science, Moscow)

My Grandfather's Collection
Christine Koenigs (Netherlands)

Austria-Russia -Allies. Legal Aspects of Treatment of Looted Cultural Goods.
Thomas Schreiner (Fürst Esterhazy'sche Privatstiftung Schloß Eisenstadt, Austria)

Principles and methods of restitution in Hungary. Art objects 1941-56
Zsolt Visy (Hungary, Ministry of Cultural Heritage)

The Right of Foreign Citizens to Obtain on Demand the Cultural Valuables Displaced in the Course the World War II, in Legal Form.
Andrei Lisitsyn-Svetlanov (The Bar of Moscow Oblast)

13.15-13.50 Lunch

13.50-14.15 Opening of the Exhibition "All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature and Displaced Valuables"

II Panel 14.15-19.00
Chair Andrei Lisitsyn-Svetlanov

International Legal Aspects of the as of 20 July 1999 in Connection with the Case of the Constitutionality Verification of Separate Clauses of the Law On Cultural Valuables Transferred To The USSR In Result Of The World War II and Kept on the Territory of the Russian Federation.
Valery Andrianov (Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Moscow)

The Comment to the Resolution of the Constitutional Court in Connection with the Case of the Constitutionality Verification of the Law On Cultural Valuables Transferred To The USSR In Result Of The World War II and Kept on the Territory of the Russian Federation.
Gadis Gadzhiev (Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Moscow)

Legal Aspects of the Displaced Cultural Valuables Issue.
Valery Kulishov (Moscow)

Perspectives of the Cultural Cooperation in Providing Access to the Displaced Library Collections
Vladimir Zaitsev (Russian State Library, St. Petersburg)

15.45-16.00 Coffee-break

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Experience of Work on Displaced Cultural Valuables
Yuri Titov (Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow)

Ways of Search and Return of Cultural Valuables
Valery Gedroits (Ministry of Culture of Belorus)

World War II in the Destiny of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage
Juozas Tumelis (National Library of Lithuania, Lithuania)

Archival Ukrainica Abroad and the Trophy Archives in Postwar Ukraine
Gennadii Boriak (Institute of Ukrainian Archaeopgraphy and Source Study named after M.S.Grushevsky, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)

Twice Plundered or Twice Saved? And Restitution to the USSR from Germany (1945-1948): Official transfer of documents and inventories
Patricia Grimsted (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University; US Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA)

19.00 Opening Reception

Tuesday, April 11

III Panel 09.30-13.15 Chair Istvan Fodor

USSR Cultural Valuables on the Territory of Germany: The Problems of Search and Return
Nikolai Nikandrov (Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Department of Preserving Cultural Valuables, Moscow)

Destiny of Mosaic
Wolfgang Eichwede (Deutsch-Russisches Forum, Germany)

Hungarian Collection of Looted Masterpieces. History Of Origin And Being. Experience of Work of the Russian-Hungarian Expert Group
Alexei Vladimirov (All-Russia Art Science and Restoration Center named after E. Grabar, Moscow)

Estonian Lost Cultural Heritage (XX Century)
Peep Pillak (Government of the Republic of Estonia Expert Commission for Handling Estonian Cultural Heritage outside Estonia, Estonia)

11.00-11.15 Coffee-break

Problems of Displaced Archives
Vladimir Tarasov (Federal Archives Service, Moscow)

A Great Waste of Time and Energy. The Seizure and Scrutiny of Masonic Documents during and after the World War II.
Evert Kwaadgras (Grand Lodge of Freemasons for the Netherlands, Netherlands)

Konigsberg "Trace" of Displaced Cultural Valuables: Problems, Search, Findings
Avenir Ovsyanov (Science and Production Center on Preserving and Use of the Monuments of History and Culture, Kaliningrad)

Nazi Confiscation, Acquisition and Destruction in Western Europe 1940-1945
Lynn Nicholas (USA)

13.15-14.15 Lunch

IV Panel 14.15-18.00 Chair Avenir Ovsyanov

Displaced Collections in the Russian State Library: Past, Present, Future
Nina Khakhaleva (Russian State Library, Moscow)

"Who Is Playing Whose Piano Now?" - The Fate of Music Collections Looted by the Nazis during World War II
Wim de Vries (Independent Researcher and Musicologist, Netherlands)

War Trophies in Perspective: The Fate of Looted Collections from Belgium
Michel Vermote, Wouter Steenhaut (AMSAB- Institute of Social History, Belgium)

15.45-16.00 Coffee-break

Fate of the Pre-War Collections of the Novgorod Museum. Return or Compensation
Nikolai Grinev (Novgorod State United Museum-Preserve, Great Novgorod)

Ways and Approaches to Solving the Issue of Looted Collections Identification
Larisa Bardovskaya (State Museum-Preserve "Czarskoe Selo", Pushkin)

Perspectives of Cooperation of the Voronezh University Library in the Area of Restoring Library Collections
Svetlana Yants (Voronezh State University Library, Voronezh)

Method of Description of Owners' Signs in Connection with the Study of the Displaced Book Collections
Karina Dmitrieva, Nikolai Zubkov, Kirill Kolosov (Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow)

18.00 - 19.00 Round table. Discussion.

19.00 Closing Reception