Programma

Friday 10 October, 14.00 to 18.00

Class 1: Introduction to the themes of the course:
(a) Cultural property and cultural heritage
* identity and community
* community and cultural production
* cultural production and resistance
(b) Colonial and post-colonial
* The West and the rest
(c) Museums
(d International law and its institutions
* national, international, global
* community, nation, state
* Indigenous Peoples
* legal protection of cultural property and cultural heritage
* immovability and movability
* tangibility and intangibility
* digitization
* commodification
* intellectual property

Class 2: Cultural property in the colonial and post-colonial periods


Friday 17 October, 14.00-18.00

Class 3: International Law I:
* Structure, instruments and institutions
* Cultural property and cultural heritage

Class 4: International Law II:
* Cultural property and cultural heritage
* Intellectual property


Friday 31 October, 14.00 to 18.00

Class 5: (Mis)appropriation I: Tangibles
* Relocation and decontextualization

Class 6: (Mis)appropriation II: Intangibles
* Decontextualization, digitization and commodification


Friday 28 November, 14.00 to 18.00

Class 7: Restitution and resistance

Class 8: Workshop I - Drafting an international code on the restitution of cultural property


Friday 5 December, 14.00 to 18.00

Class 9: Workshop II - Drafting an international code on the restitution of cultural property

Class 10: Workshop III - Drafting an international code on the restitution of cultural property

Testi Adottati

F Macmillan, Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community (Routledge, 2021), chs 3, 4, 5 & 7

F Macmillan, “Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage: Towards Interdisciplinarity" in I Calboli & M L Montagnani, Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives ((Oxford, 2021)

F Macmillan, “Regulating Communities: Strategies for an Open Museum Sector” in G Dore & M Arisi (eds), Open Up Museums! (LED Edizioni, 2024)

A Vrdoljak, International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects (Cambridge, 2006), chs 1, 2 & 4-7

UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1970
UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972
UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003
UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005
UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects 1995
WTO Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property 1995

Modalità Frequenza

There are 20 teaching hours. The classes will take place on the following dates. Classes 1 and 2: Friday 10 October, 14.00 to 18.00 Classes 3 and 4: Friday 17 October, 14.00 to 18.00 Classes 5 and 6: Friday 31 October, 14.00 to 18.00 Classes 7 and 8: Friday 28 November, 14.00 to 18.00 Classes 9 and 10: Friday 5 December, 14.00 to 18.00

Modalità Valutazione

The clinic will be assessed on a pass/fail basis. In order to pass the course students must attend classes and participate in the drafting of an international code on the restitution of cultural property.