International Conference - 29 to 30 September 2009, Basel

Keynote adress 30 sept 2009 - Andrea Raschèr - Audio

Keynote address 30 Sept 2009 - Andrea Raschèr

Experten diskutieren in Basel über Raubkunst - DRS 2, 2009.09.30

Conference: Governance of Cultural Property

Academics and practitioners from different fields will cover interconnected topics ranging from the roles and responsibilities of museums, cultural property protection in conflict situations, the grey areas of the art business and the thin line between legality and misdemeanour, outright theft and money-laundering in the cultural assets trade, (inter)national legal means and voluntary initiatives aiming at the  prevention of such unlawful acts and, finally, mechanisms of recovering stolen artefacts and the negotiations surrounding their potential repatriation.

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