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X-WR-CALNAME:Free Public Lecture: Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed
  Conflict by Dr. Patty Gerstenblith
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DESCRIPTION:Join the GW Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages 
 and Civilizations for an enlightening evening as Dr. Patty Gerstenblith sh
 ares her expertise on cultural heritage protection in times of conflict.\n
 \nCultural heritage has always been at severe risk during armed conflict. 
 Wars from the time of antiquity to the Second World War and the recent and
  current conflicts in Syria\, Iraq and Ukraine have destroyed both movable
  and immovable cultural heritage and put archaeological sites and collecti
 ons of cultural objects at risk of theft and looting. This lecture will ex
 plore the legal\, ethical\, and voluntary constraints that have been adopt
 ed to protect cultural heritage and in particular archaeological sites fro
 m this type of damage and destruction.\n\nPatty Gerstenblith PhD\, JD\, DH
 L h.c.\, is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University a
 nd Director for its Center of Art\, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law. Pres
 ident Clinton and President Obama appointed her as a Member and then Chair
  of the President's Cultutal Property Advisory Committee in the Department
  of State. Since 2020\, she has served as President of the Board of Direct
 ors of the US Committee of the Blue Shield and Chair of the Blue Shield In
 ternational Working Group on Trafficking of Cultural Objects. Her book\, C
 ultural Objects and Reparative Justice: A Legal and Historical Analysis\, 
 was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. The fourth edition of he
 r casebook\, Art\, Cultural Heritage\, and the Law\, was published in 2019
 . She was the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College in 2021\, and the Arc
 haeological Institute of America's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for the 2
 023-24 academic year.\n\nThis in-person event will take place on Tuesday\,
  October 29 at 7 PM in Funger Hall\, Room 108. Don't miss this opportunity
  to learn from a leading expert in the field!\n\nNote: registration is req
 uired to attend.
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SUMMARY:Free Public Lecture: Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conf
 lict by Dr. Patty Gerstenblith
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 -cultural-heritage-during-armed-conflict-by-dr-patty-gerstenblith
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