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. Page 4.