The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War
Claire Finkelstein, Derek Gillman, and Frederik Rosén
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Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) as well as a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She is the Founder and Faculty Director of Penn's Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. An expert in the law of armed conflict, military ethics, and national security law, she is a co-editor (with Jens David Ohlin) of The Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law and a well-published author in the areas of national security and democratic governance. Professor Finkelstein is a frequent radio, broadcast, and print commentator.
Derek Gillman is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Art History and Museum Leadership, and Executive Director of University Collections and Exhibitions, Drexel University. He was President of the Barnes Foundation from 2006-13 and, prior to that, of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is author of The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press), a board member of the International Cultural Property Society, an emeritus member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and a consulting scholar in the Asian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Frederik Rosén holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and directs the Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict. His prior positions include Associate Professor at the faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and Senior Researcher and the Danish Institute for International Studies. Dr. Rosé©n has for a decade functioned as a key advisor to governments and international organizations on cultural property protection in relation to armed conflicts. He has published extensively on international law and security, including the monograph Collateral Damage. A Candid History of Peculiar Form of Death (2016).
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James Barry is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia. An anthropologist by training, he specializes in ethnolinguistic and religious minorities in Iran and their relationship with Iranian national identity. His book Armenian Christians in Iran: Ethnicity, Religion and Identity in the Islamic Republic is available through Cambridge University Press (2018).
Jos van Beurden is an Affiliated Researcher of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He specializes in colonial cultural collections and restitution issues. Among his publications are Ongemakkelijk Erfgoed - Koloniale collecties en teruggave in de Lage Landen (Inconvenient Heritage - Colonial collections and restitution in the Netherlands and Belgium) (Walburg Pers 2021) and the pioneering Treasures in Trusted Hands-Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects (Sidestone Press 2017).
Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law, where he serves as Director of the University's Transnational Law Institute. His research and teaching interests include public international law, global environmental governance, international criminal law, post-conflict justice, and transnational legal process. He is the author of Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford University Press 2012); Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge University Press 2007); and co-editor of the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (Elgar 2019).
Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) as well as a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She is the Founder and Faculty Director of Penn's Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. An expert in the law of armed conflict, military ethics, and national security law, she is a co-editor (with Jens David Ohlin) of The Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law and a well-published author in the areas of national security and democratic governance. Professor Finkelstein is a frequent radio, broadcast, and print commentator.
Helen Frowe is a Professor of Practical Philosophy and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Scholar at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Her research focuses on permissible harming, particularly harming in self-defense and war. She is the author of Defensive Killing (Oxford University Press 2014) and The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge 2015), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War and How We Fight: Ethics in War (Oxford University Press 2018). She is currently co-directing the AHRC-funded project on the protection of cultural heritage in war.
Derek Gillman is a Distinguished Teaching Professor, Art History and Museum Leadership, and Executive Director, University Collections and Exhibitions, Drexel University. He was president of the Barnes Foundation from 2006-2013 and, prior to that, of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is author of The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 2010), a board member of the International Cultural Property Society, an emeritus member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and a consulting scholar in the Asian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Martin Hamilton is a Senior Analyst at the National Operations Department of the Swedish Police Authority and a former lecturer at the Centre for International and Operational Law of the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Kent, UK. His thesis is entitled "Cultural Genocide in International Law: A Normative Evolution?"
Kristin Hausler is the Dorset Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Center for International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (UK). She is a consultant on cultural heritage matters, and has provided training on cultural heritage to armed groups and police forces. She has taught courses on cultural heritage law and policy at Georgetown University, the University of Florida, the University of Geneva, and Leiden University, among others.
Benjamin Isakhan is a Professor of International Politics and Founding Director of "Polis," a research network for Politics and International Relations, in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Andrzej Jakubowski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the University of Opole and at the Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He serves as chair of the Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance of the International Law Association and a mediator at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Country of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation (ICPRCP). He is the author of State Succession in Cultural Property (Oxford University Press 2015).
Duncan MacIntosh is a Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, where he served as department chair, and a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Professor MacIntosh is a widely published author who works in metaethics, decision and action theory, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of science. Most recently he has focused on philosophical issues in the rule of law and national security.
Derek Matravers is a Professor of Philosophy at the Open University and a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge. He is the author of Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies, Fiction and Narrative, and Empathy (Routledge 2012), among other works, and has published numerous articles on aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. He is the editor, with Paloma Atencia-Linares, of the British Journal of Aesthetics and is currently co-directing the AHRC-funded project on just war theory and cultural heritage in war at the Stockholm Center for the Ethics of War and Peace.
Carsten Paludan-Müller is an archaeologist who has held leading positions within museums and heritage management in Denmark. From 2003 to 2017 he was the general director of The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. He has worked as an expert with the Council of Europe, the European Commission, ICOMOS, Anadolu Kültür, the Norwegian MFA, and the World Bank.
Victoria Reed is the Sadler Curator for Provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA and PhD in art history from Rutgers University. Since 1997 she has been conducting provenance research in American art museums. Dr. Reed has lectured widely and published extensively on matters related to provenance research, including the issue of Nazi-era looting and restitution.
Frederik Rosén is the director of the Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen and has published widely on international security and the law of armed conflict. He is a leading international expert on military challenges related to cultural heritage and has directed several NATO projects on the topic.
Laurie W. Rush is an Archaeologist who works for the US Army at Fort Drum, NY. She is a fellow of the National Science Foundation and the American Academy in Rome. Dr. Rush was the military liaison for return of Ur to Iraqi stewardship and represented the Department of Defense for heritage issues in Kabul and across the Middle East. She is a board member of the US Committee of the Blue Shield and co-author of the book, The Carabinieri TPC: Saving the World's Heritage (Boydell Press 2015).
Ricardo A. St. Hilaire is an attorney in the area of international cultural heritage law, with a focus on transnational antiquities trafficking. He is the founder and executive director of Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research and authors the Cultural Heritage Lawyer blog. He serves as a presidential appointee to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.
Elizabeth Varner is the Director of the National Coast Guard Museum, an Attorney, Arbitrator, and an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She is the chair of the American Alliance of Museums' Curatorial Ethics Subcommittee and on the American Bar Association's Art and Cultural Heritage Steering Committee; the board of the US Committee and the Standing Legal Committee for the International Council of Museums. She formerly served as president of the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, and faculty for American Arbitration Association and John Hopkins University Graduate Museum Program.
