Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference

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The Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference aims to raise public awareness and develop understanding of the issues surrounding the protecting of cultural heritage at risk from armed conflict. Focussing on the Middle East, the area currently undergoing the greatest destruction and where the heritage is most at risk, we aim to demonstrate the importance of the heritage, why its destruction matters, and what can be done. Topics to be explored will include the material heritage of the region from international and local perspectives, and the living heritage of communities with rich and longstanding traditions, before exploring why such destruction is happening, and the beliefs that underlie extremist practices. Focus will then move to an overview of what is being done already, and what more the international community can do. This free conference is intended to provide information from a variety of cultures, perspectives, and organisations, including academics, archaeologists, the military, and the media, raising awareness of the multi-cultural nature of Middle Eastern heritage, and its global relevance in the past and today.

Recent Episodes
  • Welcome and introduction
    Nov 18, 2015 – 02:41
  • Overview of Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
    Nov 18, 2015 – 09:29
  • Monuments at War—the Syrian Conflict and the Changing Pattern of Destruction as Reflected in Aleppo and Palmyra
    Nov 18, 2015 – 34:11
  • When words fail. Iraq's lost heritage, and efforts to save it
    Nov 18, 2015 – 26:59
  • Syriac Christian communities: people, monuments and manuscripts in Syria, Turkey, and Iraq
    Nov 18, 2015 – 31:58
  • Cultural Heritage in the Islamic State’s Worldview
    Nov 19, 2015 – 17:40
  • Politics with a focus on Yemen
    Nov 19, 2015 – 27:50
  • The Sites and Monuments Record for Syria, and the Shirin Project
    Nov 19, 2015 – 21:39
  • Law Enforcement of Cultural Heritage Crime
    Nov 19, 2015 – 26:47
  • Heritage for Peace: an NGO protecting Syrian Cultural Heritage during the Conflict
    Nov 19, 2015 – 23:24
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