Last updated May 7, 2009
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MONDAY: Restitution
Morning Lecture & Discussion:
10:00-12:00 Daniel Butt: Cultual property or cultural heritage - who owns what, and why?
Afternoon Seminars:
14:00-15:30 Getting practical - what should museums and collectors give back, and what should they keep? (Daniel Butt)
16:00-17:30 Legal Issues in the restitution of cultural heritage (Volker Wiese)
TUESDAY: Copyright
Morning Lecture & Discussion:
10:00-12:00 Joy Garnett: On the rights of Molotov Man: Appropriation and the art of context
Afternoon Seminars:
14:30-17:45 Who Owns History? Art, Mass Media and Journalism in the Digital Age (Joy Garnett) and Whose Trash? Whose Face? (David Levine)
14:00-15:30 The Last of the Crow? (Thomas Nørgaard and David Hayes)
Evening Film Screening:
19:30-21:00 Being John Malkovich (Matthias Hurst)
Wednesday: Identity Theft
Morning Lecture & Discussion:
10:00-12:00 Ruth Franklin: Identity theft in literary representations of the Holocaust
Afternoon Seminars:
14:00-15:30 W.G. Sebald and the Facts of Life (Ruth Franklin)
16:00-17:30 The Lives of Others: Dave Eggers’ What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
16:00-17:30 Who owns John Malkovich? (Matthias Hurst)
Thursday: Restoration
Morning Lecture & Discussion:
10:00-12:00 Denise Budd: Art Objects vs. the Museum
After Lunch Screening of the Film:
ARTWATCH (TBC)
Afternoon Seminars:
14:00-15:30 Case Study in Restoration: The Sistine Chapel (Denise Budd)
16:00-17:30 Controversial Art-Restorations: is Humanity erasing its own past? (Geoff Lehman and Peter Hajnal)
16:00-17:30 Owning Culture: Museums and Public Art (Laura Scuriatti)
Friday: Copyright & Internet (TBC)
Afternoon Seminars:
14:00-15:30 Nazi Looted Art and Restitution (Aya Soika)
14:00-15:30 Who owns John Malkovich? (Matthias Hurst)
16:00-17:30 Is there a right to culture? (Bruno Macaes)
Evening Event:
18:00 Photography Exhibition - “Transformations and ownership of Urban Spaces.” Opening Presentation. Lecture Hall.