Protecting the Past: Towards a Better Future with Cultural Heritage Sunday, October 30th Day 1
08.15 Registration and coffee and tea
08.50 Welcome
9.00 - 12.00 Setting the scene
This panel opens the conference by setting the theme within the broader regional picture.
09.00 – 09.30 Mala Awat, Head of Department of Antiquities, KRG. T.B.C.
09.30 – 10.00 Qais Hussain Rasheed, Head of State Board of Antiquities and Heritage T.B.C.
10.00 – 10.30 Hassan Qasim, Head of Department of Antiquities, Dohuk T.B.C.
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.00 Deborah Lehr and Tess Davis, Antiquities Coalition Culture Under Threat: Developing and Implementing Solutions to Cultural Racketeering and Terrorist Financing
12.00 – 12.30 T.B.C, SHIRIN The Shirin Project: the development of tools to support collective action in heritage protection and damage mitigation
12.30 – 13.15 Round table discussion Iraq in the MENA region: challenges and needs
Iraqi officials and practitioners are called to give 5-minutes speeches to express their own experience of the challenges facing cultural heritage in Iraq and what actions by the international community would make the greatest difference on the ground.
Confirmed speakers include: Saleem Khalaf, SBAH Director, Excavation Department Qussay al Assaf, Director, Niniveh Department of Reconstruction
13.15 – 14.15 Break for lunch, including poster session with coffee and tea from 14.00 – 14.15.
Page 2 14.15 – 17.30 The challenges of protecting the past in Iraq
Following on from the round table discussion, this session concentrates on the challenges to cultural heritage in Iraq.
14.15 – 14.45 Layla Salih, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Baghdad The Destroyed Heritage in Mosul - reality and challenges
14.45 – 15.15 May Shaer, UNESCO, Iraq A Sustainable Approach to Conservation: UNESCO’S Involvement in the Revitalization of Erbil Citadel T.B.C.
15.15 – 15.45 Nader Babakr Muhammad, Head of DoA, Erbil Looting and Destruction in Erbil T.B.C.
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 16.30 Allison Cuneo, ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives Monitoring, Protecting, and Preserving Cultural Heritage: Recent Results of the ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives
16.30 – 16.45 Didier Bouakaze-Khan, Middle East Technical University, Çankaya Ankara Archaeological Heritage in Conflict Zones
16.45 – 17.15 Mohammad Talebian, Cultural Heritage Deputy of the ICHHTO T.B.C.
Monday, October 31st Day 2
9.30 – 13.00 New approaches
This panel looks at the applications of new technologies to monitor and record the endangered archaeology of Iraq and the wider region.
09.30 – 10.00 John MacGinnis, Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Project, British Museum The British Museum’s Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Scheme
Page 3 10.00 – 10.30 Tobin Hartnell, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
10.30 – 11.00 Abdelamir al-Hamdani, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage Digitizing the Past: A New Digital Atlas and Database of the Archaeological sites in Iraq
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.00 Bijan Rohani, AMAL Project, ICOMOS AMAL in Heritage: A cultural emergency management tool for MENA region
12.00 – 12.30 Abdullah Qadr, Head of Institute of heritage and conservation, Salahaddin University, Erbil T.B.C.
12.30 – 13.00 Roger Matthews, RASHID, University of Reading RASHID International: Formulating a Future for Iraq's Past
13.00 – 14.00 Break for lunch
14.00 – 17.00 Protecting the past in the face of development: defining goals and expectations
This session discusses landscape change as generated by various forms of development, and the impact of development, agriculture and urbanisation on the archaeology of Iraq.
14.00 – 14.30 Ricardo Cabral, Kani Shaie Archaeology Project, Universidade de Coimbra Using Digital Technologies to Document the Endangered Archaeological Heritage of the Bazyan Basin in Slemani
14.30 – 15.00 Emma Cunliffe, EAMENA, Oxford University Dams and Development and Site Damage in the Iraqi Jazirah
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.00 Narmen Ali Muhamadameen, Salahaddin University, Erbil Kirkuk T.B.C.
16.00 – 16.30 Sarbagh Salih, Kurdistan Botanical Foundation Environment Heritage of the Zagros
16.30 – 17.00 Wrap-Up Discussion with Tobin Hartnell.
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