Progetto HEURIGHT14

Progetto HEURIGHT14

Progetto HEURIGHT14

“European Union and Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Dilemmas”, 17-18 May 2018, Trieste (Italy)

The International Conference entitled “European Union and Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Dilemmas” will take place on May 17-18, 2018 at the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies of the University of Trieste (IUSLIT), Italy. It is the closing conference of the Project HEURIGHT, hosted by the Italian team chaired by Prof. Francesca Fiorentini, Department IUSLIT.
This research project endeavours to map how the evolving notion of Cultural Heritage affects the forms of protection, access to, and governance of heritage, within the institutional, operational and legal structures of the EU. In particular, it deals with the complex organisational and regulatory frameworks concerned with Cultural Heritage, trade and human rights in place in the EU and its Members States, as well as their interaction, cross-fertilisation, and possible overlaps. Hence, the project seeks, on the one hand, to explore and substantiate the role of Cultural Heritage for the regional European integration and, on the other, to explain and debate the uniqueness of the EU model of Cultural Heritage governance vis-à-vis global efforts aiming to respect and safeguard Cultural Heritage and diversity around the world as global commons.

In this context, the main objective of the conference is, from the one side, to debate the interim outcomes of the HEURIGHT research. On the other side, it will gather contributions addressing some of the major challenges Cultural Heritage governance is facing within the EU and in the global arena, like endangered Cultural Heritage and the illicit trafficking of cultural objects, digital access to Cultural Heritage, the European label initiative, or operational aspects like the regional and structural funds the EU devotes to Cultural Heritage projects. In this regard, the conference seeks to substantiate the axiological, political and societal considerations driving the EU’s involvement in Cultural Heritage, regionally and globally.

HEURIGHT final conference programme. 

For further details and registration, please contact Dr. Paola Monaco at pmonaco@units.it.

The HEURIGHT closing conference in Trieste has been awarded the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 (EYCH) label. Throughout 2018, European societies will celebrate their diverse cultural heritage across Europe – at EU, national, regional and local level. The aim of the EYCH is to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe’s cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space.

The slogan for the year is: “Our heritage: where the past meets the future”.

The EYCH will see a series of initiatives and events across Europe to enable people to become closer to and more involved with their cultural heritage.

For more info consult the EYCH’s online platform and websites of national coordinators.

Seminar ‘Culture Heritage, Justice and Human Rights’, 16 November 2016, University of Trieste

On 16 November 2016, the research team of the Project HEURIGHT held a special seminar for postgradual and doctoral students at the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies, University of Triest. The seminar discussed the topic of culture heritage from the angle of international justice and enforcement and enhancement of human rights, including cultural rights. An introductory talk was given by Andrzej Jakubowski.

 

Rijeka Lectures in Comparative Law, 14 November 2016, Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka (Croatia)

On 14 November, Francesca Fiorentini and Andrzej Jakubowski (Principal Investigators of the Project HEURIGHT) presented their ongoing research at the University of Rijeka within the programme Rijeka Lectures in Comparative Law. The programme is jointly organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka and Croatian Comparative Law Association. The programme offers a scientific community forum and invites speakers from around the world to present their research results and discuss current developments in the field of comparative law.

In her talk, Francesca Fiorentini addressed the complexity of the notions of ‘national treasures’ and ‘cultural exception’ in the legal instrumentarium of the European Union. In particular, she referred to recent legal developments in the area of free movement of goods and highlighted the changing concept of ‘national treasures’ in light of the regime introduced by the Directive 2014/60/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012. In turn, the lecture by Andrzej Jakubowski dealt with the enforcement of cultural rights, in their individual and collective dimensions. It intended to reconstruct the normative and doctrinal foundations of access cultural justice as a human right, tested against international and domestic practices of cultural governance. In such a guise, it defined the concept of cultural justice, seen through the prism of the concept of procedural justice, as fairness and promotion of organizational and institutional changes built on the principles of participation, voice, and transparency. Both lectures also referred to the research currently being performed within the Project HEURIGHT. The event was chaired and moderated by Professor Budislav Vukas from the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka.

The Fourth Meeting of the Consortium’s Members and Public Event, London, 27-28 October 2016

On 27 and 28 October 2016, the HEURIGHT Research Consortium held a meeting in London, at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. The meeting kicked off on the afternoon of Thursday 27^th, with a discussion between Dr Damien Helly (European Centre for Development Policy Management) and the rest of the HEURIGHT Consortium to discuss our working papers regarding cultural heritage in the EU.

This internal discussion was followed by a public seminar entitled ‘Enforcing the Right to Cultural Heritage’; see the event programme.

During this two-hour seminar, members of HEURIGHT had the opportunity to present the current status of their research to an engaged audience of lawyers, cultural heritage professionals and academics working in the field. The first speaker, Dr Andrzej Jakubowski (Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)), discussed cultural heritage from the perspective of human rights law, focusing on the practice of regional European human rights institutions. Dr Hanna Schreiber (Adjunct Professor at the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw) then presented on intangible cultural heritage, in the context of the ten years’ anniversary of the entry into force of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Dr Damien Helly (Deputy Head of Programme Strengthening European External Action at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)) then provided his thoughts on the role of cultural heritage within the EU’s external action. Dr Paola Monaco (post-doc fellow at the Law Faculty at the University of Trieste) explained the functioning of the UNESCO Culture for Development Indicators (CDIS). Richard Scott (Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law) closed the formal presentations with a discussion regarding the potential impact of Brexit on cultural heritage in the UK. The event, which was chaired by Kristin Hausler (Dorset Senior Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law), concluded with a lively debate with the audience on the topic.

HEURIGHT14 – “The Right to Cultural Heritage. Protection and Enforcement through Cooperation in the European Union” – Open Seminar, 7 July 2016 – Trieste (Italy)

On 7th July 2016 the Research Team of the HEURIGHT Project held an open seminar aimed at disseminating the interim results of the international research on the right to cultural heritage in the European Union. The event was held at the at the University of Trieste, Department of Law, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies.

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‘The Return of Cultural Objects within the European Union – Implementing the Directive 2014/60/EU’, 21-22 March 2016, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw

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