Displaces Cultural Valuables
C O N F E R E N C E S   :    CULTURAL VALUABLES: IN SEARCH OF NEW SOLUTIONS TO OLD PROBLEMS

Programme

6 September

9.30 – Registration of participants

10.00 – 11.00 – Opening session

Welcoming addresses:

Ekaterina Yu. Genieva – Director General, Library for Foreign Literature, Tolerance Institute

Andrei G. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov – Director, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Aleksei I. Komech – Director, State Institute of Art History

11.00 – 11.30 Presentation of the book “Cultural Valuables: Potentiality and Prospects for All-European cooperation”.

11.30 –11.45 – Coffee break

Session 1 11.45-14.00

Chair – Ekaterina Yu. Genieva, Director General of the Library for Foreign Literature

Preservation of Russian Cultural Heritage: New System of State Control

  • Victor V. Petrakov, Head of the Department on Preservation of Cultural Valuables under the Federal Control Service for the Observation of the Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Media and Protection of Cultural Heritage, Moscow

Consequences of Germany’s Ratification of the 1970 UNESCO Convention

  • Isabel Kuehl, Institute of European and International Private Law, Germany

Cooperation in Western Europe after World War II: Legal Aspects of Recent Claims Submitted in the USA and their Consequences for Europe.

  • Claudia von Selle, “Zschunke” law firm, Germany

Some Aspects of Preventing the Acts of Terrorism Aimed at Demolishing Objects of State Property

  • Alexander I. Chudinov, Russian State Pedagogical University (named after A.I. Herzen), Law Faculty, St. Petersburg

13.10 Questions to speakers

14.00 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 - 15.45 Opening of the exhibition based on the “Manuscripts and Archival materials of Juedisch-Theologisches Seminar in Breslau held in Russian Depositories” catalogue materials.

16.00– 18.00 Session 2

CIS: Issues of Cultural Heritage Repartition and Cultural Valuables Removing

  • Mark M. Boguslavsky, Professor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, Doctor Honoris Causa, Institute of State and Law, Moscow

Fate of Walter Rathenau’s Archives: Truth and Fiction

  • Tim Schröder, Law consultant, Germany

  • Vladimir I. Korotaev, Russian State Military Archives, Moscow

Questions to speakers

17.20 – 18.00 Final discussion

 

7 September

10.00 – 14.00 Session 1

Chair – Professor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, Mark M. Boguslavsky

Uncovering the Past: The Auctioneer as Researcher

  • Lucian Simmons, “Sotheby’s” Auction House

The Issues that Face an Auction House in the Restitution Field

  • Anthony Streatfeild , “Christie’s” Auction House

Challenges for Improvement of Antiquities Market in Russia

  • Alexei A. Geller, Russian Antiquarians Association, Moscow

Museums and New Forms of Cooperation: Permanent Exhibition Centers Abroad

  • Olga G. Yudina, leading legal adviser of the State Hermitage, St.Petersburg

Issues of Museum and Library Collections Reconstruction Using New Technologies

Theresia Gabriel, Esterhazy Foundation, Austria

12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break

 

Issues of Museum and Library Collections Reconstruction Using New Technologies

  • Avenir Ovsianov, Research Center on Preservation of Cultural and Historical Monuments, Kaliningrad

  • Ernst Becker, Foundation for Development and Support of International Dialogue in Science and Culture Secco-Pontanova, Berlin, Germany

  • Irina V. Guzhova, Kaluga Regional Art Museum, Kaluga

  • Natalia I. Ivanova, “Germans in St. Petersburgand its Suburbs” Museum, St.Petersburg

Questions to speakers

14.00 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 17.00 Session 2

Issues of Museum and Library Collections Reconstruction Using New Technologies

  • Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA

  • Oleg A. Korostelev, “Russkoje zarubezhje” Foundation Library, Moscow

Discussion.

Time limits for presentations: 20 min.