Attending

[Speakers are identified by their initials in the transcript.  The schedule of speakers and their topics can be downloaded here as a one-page pdf file.]

Alexander Bauer, (AB), Writing Program Lecturer, Princeton University; Research Associate, Culture in Global Affairs Program, George Washington University. His PhD is in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and he has both written on and taught cultural heritage courses to students of law, international affairs, and anthropology. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book entitled Trade as Social Interation: New Archaeological Approaches and is currently working on an interdisciplinary text with Stephen Urice, entitled Cultural Heritage Law and Policy.

Michael F. Brown, (MB), Williams College, USA (Cultural Anthropology) James N. Lambert '39 Professor of Anthropology & Latin American Studies; Chair, Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, Williams College. A cultural anthropologist of Native American and Amazonian myth and religion, Brown is the author of several works on Native intellectual property rights, including the recent book, Who Owns Native Culture? (Harvard U. P., 2003). His website accompanying his book, at www.williams.edu/go/native/ is a continually updated resource on native groups’ intellectual property developments.

Michael Cernea, (MC), World Bank Group, USA (Economics) is a Senior Advisor at the World Bank, a member of the Academy of Sciences in Romania, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University. His work focuses on development and social policy, and he has been instrumental in applying understandings of culture and heritage into development programs. Important books include Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Development (1985) and Cultural Heritage and Development: A Framework for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2001).

Clemency Coggins, (CC), Boston University, USA (Archaeology) is a Professor of Archaeology and Art History at Boston University. Most of her publications concern Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology, international cultural property, museums, and the international trade in antiquities. In 1997 she received the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America, and awards for Outstanding Contributions from Rutgers University, the American Society for Conservation Archaeology, and for Outstanding Service from the United States Information Agency.

Pedro Paulo Funari, (PF), University of Campinas, Brasil (Archaeology) is a Professor of History at the University of Campinas, Brasil, where he specializes in classical archaeology and heritage tourism. His books include Turismo e Patrimônio Cultural (Editora Contexto, 2001) and Ética e Política no Mundo Antigo (w/Hector Benoit, UNICAMP, 2002).

Richard Handler, (RH), Univerisity of Virginia, USA (Cultural Anthropology) is an Associate Dean and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. His research has focused on nationalism, identity and the politics of culture, and his publications include Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (University of Wisconsin, 1988) and The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg (w/Eric Gable, Duke University Press, 1997).

Stanley Katz, (SK), University of Princeton, USA (Cultural Policy and Philanthropy) is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel/Palestine (2002), he is a noted authority on American legal and constitutional history, and on nonprofit/ nongovernmental organizations. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History, and as vice president of the American Historical Association. He is a trustee of the Newberry Library, the Copyright Clearance Center and the Social Science Research Council as well as other nonprofit organizations. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians.

David Lowenthal, (DL), University College London, UK (History, Heritage) Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University College London. His many books on history and the politics of heritage include The Past Is a Foreign Country (1985), The Politics of the Past (edited with Peter Gathercole, 1990) The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (1997), and George Perkins Marsh, Prophet of Conservation (2000).

Claire Lyons, (CL), Getty Research Institute, USA (Museum Studies) is Collections Curator at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and a Research Associate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. She is a specialist in the archaeology of Sicily and southern Italy, and her books include The Archaeology of Colonialism (edited with John Papadopoulos, 2002) and Morgantina: The Archaic Cemeteries (1996).

James A. R. Nafziger, (JN), Williamette University School of Law, USA (Cultural Property Law) Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law and Director of International Programs, Willamette University College of Law; Honorary Professor of the East China University of Politics and Law. He writes extensively in the fields of international law and dispute resolution, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international arbitration and litigation, and conflict of laws. He is the Chair of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the International Law Association, and is the author of International Sports Law (2nd Ed., 2004) and Cultural Law (co-authored with Robert Paterson, forthcoming).

Patrick O’Keefe, (PO), Australian National University, Australia (International Heritage Law) Adjunct Professor, Australian National University. He is a specialist in international cultural heritage law and has long been a consultant to both UNESCO and individual nations seeking to recover looted or stolen heritage. Among his many publications are Trade in Antiquities: Reducing Destruction and Theft (UNESCO, 1997), National Legal Control of Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property (1983, with Lyndel Prott), and Law and the Cultural Heritage, I: Discovery and Excavation and III: Movement (1984, 1989, with Lyndel Prott).

Hyung Il Pai, (HP), U Cal, Santa Barbara, USA & Tokyo National Institute of Cultural Properties, Japan (East Asian Heritage Studies) is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Fellow of the Tokyo National Institute of Cultural Properties, Japan. Her work focuses on how the politics of nationalism, colonialism and identity formation have affected the fields of archaeology, ethnography, and cultural heritage management in Korea and Japan. Her writings include Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State Formation Theories (Harvard U. Press, 2000).

Robert K. Paterson, (RP), University of British Columbia Law School, Canada (Cultural Property Law) Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. He specializes in international law and cultural heritage law, and serves as the Rapporteur of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the International Law Association. He is the co-author of International Trade and Investment Law in Canada (1994) and is co-author (with James Nafziger) of the forthcoming Cultural Law, to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Lyndel Prott, (LP), Australian National University, Australia (UNESCO) Adjunct Professor, Australian National University. From 1990 to 2003 she worked for UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Heritage, serving as Director from 2001-2003. She has written extensively on cultural heritage and other legal issues, including authoring Law and the Cultural Heritage, I: Discovery and Excavation and III: Movement (1984, 1989, with Patrick O’Keefe), and The Latent Power of Culture and the International Judge (1979). In 1991 she was honored for her work in Cultural Heritage Law as Member of the Order of Australia, and in 2000 the Government of Austria awarded her the "Croix d'honneur autrichienne pour les Sciences et l'Art première classe."

Lawrence Rosen, (LR), Princeton University, USA (Anthropology and Indigenous Rights), the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, joined the Princeton faculty in 1977. He also is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School. Rosen, who holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and a law degree from the University of Chicago, was among the first winners of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grants" in 1981. In addition to The Culture of Islam, which was published last December by the University of Chicago Press, Rosen has written four books about Islamic society and law. He also has worked as a lawyer on American Indian issues and teaches a course on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Daniel Shapiro, (DS), President, International Cultural Property Society, USA. Attorney, New York City; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Law School. In addition to his legal training, he has a PhD in Philosophy, specializing in value theory, and brings an interdisciplinary view to his work as an art lawyer and specialist in cultural heritage issues. He has taught courses on art and cultural property law at Cardozo Law School and Columbia University, and is President of the International Cultural Property Society. His writings on cultural property include “Repatriation: A Modest Proposal,” NYU J. of Int. L. and Politics (1998).

Kurt Siehr, (KS), Professor Emeritus, Institute for Private International Law, University of Zürich; Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg. He specializes in private international law and cultural property law. He is the author of International Art Trade and the Law (1993) and his most recent book, co-edited with Talia Einhorn, is Intercontinental cooperation through private international law (The Hague: TMC Press, 2004).

Folarin Shyllon, (FS), University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Cultural Properties, African Legal Systems) is a Professor of Law at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He specializes in cultural and intellectual property law, and has been a longtime contributor to projects undertaken by UNESCO and UNIDROIT on the subjects of cultural heritage. He was one of the authors of UNESCO’s World Culture Report (1998), and has been a longtime contributor to the International Journal of Cultural Property on current developments in cultural property debates in Africa.

Neil Asher Silberman, (NS), ENAME Center, Belgium (Heritage, Tourism) is the Director of the Ename Center, a Belgium-based think tank focused on the public presentation of archaeological sites around the world. With special interests in history, archaeology, public interpretation and heritage policy, his books include Invisible America (w/Mark P. Leone, Holt, 1995) and Digging for God and Country (Knopf 1982).

Stephen Urice, (SU), University of Pennsylvania, USA (Museum Law) Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Director, Project for Cultural Heritage Law and Policy. Past positions include Culture Program Officer, Pew Charitable Trusts and Director of the Rosenbach Library and Museum. An archaeologist and lawyer, his writings include Qasr Kharana in the Transjordan (1987), and “External Constraints on Museum Authority,” in Legal Problems of Museum Administration (2004). He is currently co-authoring a text entitled Cultural Heritage Law and Policy (with Alexander Bauer).

Mark Zadrozny, (MZ), Journals Editor, Cambridge University Press

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Peter Turner, doctoral student, Princeton University (Classics, Ancient Greek History) (PT) His dissertation, “The political sociology of conflict in archaic Greece,” seeks to describe and explain the cultural causes of intra-community conflict in the archaic Greek polis.

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Gregory J. Ashworth, Rijjksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (Geography), Professor of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Rijjksuniversiteit Groningen. His work focuses on heritage planning and tourism, and his publications include Dissonant Heritage: the management of the past as a resource in conflict (with J.E. Tunbridge) (Wiley, 1996), and Geography of heritage: power, culture and economy (with B. Graham and J.E.Tunbridge) (Arnold, 2000).

Michael L. Blakey, College of William and Mary, USA (Physical Anthropology), NEH Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, College of William and Mary. He specializes in the historical archaeology of North America, osteology, demography and race studies, and directs the African Burial Ground project in NYC.

Talat Halman, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (Turkey’s first Minister of Culture), served as the first Minister of Culture of the Turkish Republic and founded the Ministry. Currently he is Professor and Chairman, Department of Turkish Literature, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey). Formerly (from 1953 to 1986) he was on the faculties of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Princeton Universities, and from 1986 to 1996, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at New York University. He served as Ambassador for Cultural Affairs and Turkey’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations. He has published more than fifty books and 3000 articles in Turkish and English. From 1991 to 1995, he served as an elected member of the UNESCO Executive Board. Currently he is President of the UNICEF Turkish National Committee.

Thomas F. King, SWCA Environmental Consultants, USA (Cultural Resource Management) is a professional archaeologist who also teaches archaeology and historic preservation at the National Preservation Institute in Maryland. His many books include Cultural Resource Laws and Practice: An Introductory Guide (Altamira 1998) and most recently, Places that Count: Traditional Cultural Properties in Cultural Resource Management (Altamira, 2003).

John Henry Merryman, Stanford University, USA (Cultural Property Law), Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Art, Emeritus, Stanford University. He specializes in comparative international law, having authored several books on the subject, including Comparative Law: Western European and Latin American Legal Systems (1978) and Law and Social Change in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (1979), and in effect founded the field of art and cultural property law, when he first wrote Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts with Albert Elsen in 1979 (4th Ed., 2002). His many writings on cultural property law were published in 2000 as Thinking about the Elgin marbles: Critical essays on cultural property, art and law. He is the founder of the International Cultural Property Society, the sponsor of the International Journal of Cultural Property and of the Pocantico Conference.

Lynn M. Meskell, Stanford University (Archaeology) is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, specializing in prehistoric Egypt and the socio-politics of archaeology. She is the founder and Editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology and her books include Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (Routledge, 2001) and Object World in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present (Berg, 2004).

Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton, UK (Museum Studies), Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK, specializing in the representation of the past. She is currently working on the history of museum display in archaeology and is directing The Community Archaeology Project at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt. She is the author of Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins (Cornell U. Press, 1998).

Kamal Puri, TC Beirne School of Law; University of Queensland, Australia (Indigenous Heritage), is a Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, where he specializes in intellectual property and contract law, with particular attention to Aboriginal issues. He has written extensively on the protection of traditional knowledge, and has drafted a sui generis model for protecting traditional knowledge and cultural expressions of Pacific peoples. He is currently president of the Australian Folklore Association.

Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law. Having clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and having been a litigation associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in NYC, Professor Sunder now teaches and writes in the area of law and culture, property, intellectual property, and women's international human rights. Her recent publications include: “Piercing the Veil,” Yale Law Journal (2003) and “Cultural Dissent,” Stanford Law Review (2001) (awarded an Honorable Mention in the Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper competition). She is on the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities.

Joe Watkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. One half Choctaw Indian, Watkins has spent more than 20 years doing archaeological consulting and contracting for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, and several Native American museums and firms across the south and southwest. His research interests focus on the “public interest” aspects of archaeology, including ethics, heritage representation, and indigenous perspectives, and he is the author of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (AltaMira Press, 2000).

Alison Wylie, is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, where she specializes in archaeological ethics and objectivity and the stewardship of the archaeological record. Her many publications include Thinking From Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology, (University of California Press, 2002) and Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s (co-edited with Mark J. Lynott, Society for American Archaeology Special Report Series, 1995).

Observing:

Charles Granquist, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Eleanor Lerman, Carnegie Foundation
Shelby White, Leon Levy Foundation