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Monday, September 16, 2019, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Law School , Wasserstein 1019, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

URL:

https://pls.law.harvard.edu/

Event Description:

After ISIS established its "Caliphate" in Mosul in 2014, it
intentionally destroyed cultural heritage across Iraq's Nineveh Plain.
When Mosul was liberated in 2017, international cultural organizations
offered salvage and stabilization assistance. Faced with scenes of war
crimes under the 1954 Hague Convention on cultural property
protection, professionals realized they also had to document the
destruction properly or risk causing future court cases to fail.
Corine Wegener will describe the development of Mosul Museum Project
Zero, which collects evidence of destruction at the museum for use in
a possible war crimes trial. Wegener is director of the Smithsonian
Cultural Rescue Initiative and a board member of the US Committee of
the Blue Shield. She is a retired US Army Reserve major and served as
a Civil Affairs Arts, Monuments, and Archives Officer in Iraq in
2003-2004.

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Monday, September 16, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00

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