Culture, Art, Cultural Identity and Small States
Programme
Wednesday, November 17 2021 | 18:00 – 21:30 GMT
18:00–20:00 GMT Welcome and Keynote Panel [video]
CHAIR: STEVEN FINIZIO Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
DR ANDRZEJ JAKUBOWSKI Chair of the Cultural Heritage Governance Committee of the ILA
DR WINANI THEBELE Chief Curator and Head of the Ethnology Division at the Botswana National Museum, Restitution
LISA SHOMAN Judge, Belize Supreme Court
KARIMA BENNOUNE UC Davis School of Law, former UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights
20:15–21:30 GMT Panel 1: Small States – Crossing Cultures [video]
CHAIR: DR NICOLE PIERCE Deputy-Director, ISMS
ELLEN LEKKA Culture Programme Specialist, UNESCO Office for the Pacific States
CALVIN HAMILTON Arbitra, Guyana and Barbados
PAMELA AWUOR African Media Association Malta
Thursday, November 18 2021 | 09:30 – 14:30 GMT
09:30–11:30 GMT Panel 2: Intellectual Property and Culture [video]
CHAIR: PROFESSOR SPYROS MANIATIS Professor and Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
PROFESSOR CHARLOTTE WAELDE Professor, Coventry University
DR SHARON LE GALL Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies
PURCELL SIAKI SALI Legal Service Adviser, Massey University
13:00–14:30 GMT Panel 3: Flows of Cultural Goods – Past and Present [video]
CHAIR: IAIN SANDFORD Sidley Austin, Geneva
DR MICHELLE ZANG Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington
MARIYA POLNER Senior Policy Advisor, World Customs Organization
ROSTAM J. NEUWIRTH Professor of Law, University of Macau
MICHALIS GAVRIELIDES Head of the Office for Combating Illegal Possession and Trafficking of Antiquities, Criminal Investigation Department, Cyprus Police HQ
Friday, November 19 2021 | 09:30 – 21:00 GMT
09:30–11:30 GMT Panel 4: Culture and the Environment [video]
CHAIR: DR ELKE SELTER Cultural Heritage Research Fellow, BIICL
RON VAVE PhD Candidate, Marine Biology Graduate Program, University of Hawaiˈi
MUHAMMAD JUMA Head of Africa Unit at the World Heritage Centre, UNESCO
CAROLINE MAIR-TOBY Partner, Mair, Port of Spain
18:00–20:00 GMT Panel 5: Dispute Resolution – Art and Artefacts [video]
CHAIR: DR PETRA BUTLER Director, Institute of Small and Micro States, Acting Dean – Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington
DAVID W. BOWKER WilmerHale, Washington DC
ANNE-MARIE CARSTENS Law School Assistant Professor and Director of Lawyering, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
DR EVELIEN CAMPFENS Leiden University
20:15–21:00 GMT Panel 6: Conclusion [video]
CHAIR: KRISTIN HAUSLER British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of the Centre for International Law
CATHERINE C. COLE Heritage Consultant, Catherine C. Cole & Associates
DR ALEXANDRA XANTHAKI Professor, Brunel University, UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights
ANA TUIKETEI Barrister and Arbitrator, Suva, Fiji
Report can be viewed here.