Study Day: Preserving endangered heritage from the Mediterranean to Asia

Preserving Heritage at Risk from the Mediterranean to Asia

Urbanization, natural disasters, armed conflict and the illicit trafficking of cultural objects represent major threats to heritage that we will have the pleasure of addressing on October 6 at Inalco.

PROGRAMME

9:30am - 9:50am WELCOMING WORDS

• Inalco Foundation: preserving people, heritage and knowledge - Philippe Advani (President of the Inalco Foundation)
• Archaios' commitment to protecting archaeological heritage - Jessica Giraud (President of Archaios)
• Introduction - Rocco Rante (Musée du Louvre)

9H50 - 11H20 FIRST SESSION
Tangible and intangible heritage at risk (1h30)

Chair: Arnaud Bertrand

• Afghanistan: an archaeological heritage doomed? - Philippe Marquis (DAFA)
• Armenian heritage - Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalyan (Inalco)
• Endangerment of Yemen's linguistic heritage, les langues sudarabiques modernes - Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle (CNRS LLACAN INALCO EPHE)

Discussion

Pause

11:30am - 1:00pm SECOND SESSION
The fight against the looting and trafficking of antiquities (1h30).

Chair: Emmanuel Lincot (ICP)

• Looting, trafficking and laundering of archaeological goods from the Near East - Vincent Michel (Université de Poitiers)
• Crises and armed conflicts, their influences on the dispersal of the archaeological heritage of Central Asia and the MENA region - Mathilde Mura (Archaios/UMR 7041 ArScAn-VEPMO)
• Angkor 30 years of heritage protection from the fight against looting the broadening of the notion of heritage - Christophe Pottier (EFEO)

Discussion

Lunch break

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm THIRD SESSION
Acting for heritage (1h30)

Chair: Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon

• Threats to the archaeological heritage of ancient Bengal (Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal): state of play and possible solutions - Coline Lefranca (UMR 7041 ArScAn, Central and South Asia team)
• Fortified sites in northern and northwestern China - Amaud Bertrand (Musée Guimet)
• Musical heritage and sustainable development in Eastern Arabia: État des lieux et orientations stratégiques - Maho Sebiane (CRAL-EHESS/CNRS, LESC-CREM)

Discussion

16H30 CONCLUDING WORDS AND THANKS

17H COCKTAIL

The event will also be accessible via videoconference.
To obtain connection links, please contact: communication@archaios.fr

Location: Inalco, Auditorium Dumézil, 2, rue de Lille, Paris 7ème
Date: Friday, October 6, from 9:30 am to 5 pm