Inheriting the world: Intergenerational transfer and global cultural policy

Friday, 22 May 2009

11:00
Get together

11:15
Stefan Willer (ZfL): Introduction

11:30
Helge Jordheim (Universitetet i Oslo): Patrimony and territory

12:45
Jörg Th. Richter (ZfL): Archaeology and heritage in early republican America

14:30
Karin Klenke (Universität Göttingen): Making heritage: Cultural politics on the local and the global level

15:15
José Carlos Hesles (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Raising the Mexican fetish

16:30
Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL): Linguistic diversity and the concept of mother tongue

Saturday, 23 May 2009

10:30
Uta Kornmeier (ZfL): Heritage tourism

11:15
Jonathan Bach (New School, New York): Inheritance and its others: Berlin's transient palaces

12:30
Frank Adloff (Freie Universität Berlin): Visions and roles of foundations in Europe

14:45
Silke von Lewinski (Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München):
The possible protection of expressions of folklore by traditional or sui generis intellectual property norms

15:30
Rosemary Coombe (York University, Toronto): Worlds we have inherited: Tradition and its knowledge within modern law

16:45
Stefan Willer (ZfL): Conservation, sustainability, and the future of heritage

17:30
Final discussion

Avoiding the typical conference scheme with extensive scholarly lectures, this workshop is devoted to the discussion of papers submitted and circulated beforehand. If you are interested in participating, please register by e-mail.