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The Center for Cultural Property Protection invites you to the 3rd event of the Anniversary Edition of the lecture series Spotlight Cultural Property Protection on the occasion of 70 years of the Hague Convention.
The third evening will focus on armed conflict and monitoring measures for cultural property protection, looking at current events in Ukraine as case studies.
Speakers for this evening are Katherine Harrell, historian at the Navy History and Heritage Command and researcher at the CURIA Lab for the Conflict Observatory, and Major Albin Rentenberger from the Austrian Armed Forces, chaired by Laurie Rush, US Army.
The war in Ukraine has painfully demonstrated to the Western world that the military is back as a means of asserting political interests. 2.5 years after the invasion, there is still no end in sight - the result is a bloody war of attrition from which the civilian population and the Ukrainian infrastructure are also suffering massively.
Dr Laurie Rush,
a military archaeologist at Fort Drum, USA, who has extensive experience of cultural heritage protection in the military sphere, both in the USA and abroad, will be joined by two distinguished experts on Ukraine and heritage protection to discuss cultural property protection in armed conflict in Ukraine.
Major (GS) Albin Rentenberger
is one of the Austrian Armed Forces’ leading experts on the war in Ukraine. He graduated from the 22nd General Staff Course in 2022 and currently serves as the Head of Training at the Department for Leadership at the Institute for Higher Military Leadership / National Defence Academy, Vienna.
In his contribution, Major Rentenberger provides an overview of the phases of the war and the strategic objectives of the warring parties. The focus will be on the Kharkhiv area in order to create the conditions for a more detailed analysis with regard to the protection of cultural property.
Dr Katherine Harrell
is a historian at the Navy History and Heritage Command, USA, and a researcher with the CURIA Lab for the Conflict Observatory, which focuses on Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis. Dr Harrell is an international expert on remote monitoring of the destruction of cultural heritage in Ukraine. As such, she will contrast the military strategic objectives of the warring parties presented by Major Rentenberger with the cultural heritage protection issues, recently observed in Ukraine.
To join the online lecture, please register via this link. After registering, you will receive an email with the Zoom link to the online event.
The lecture language is English.
No registration fee.
The Spotlight Cultural Property Protection lecture series 2024 is organized in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
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