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Listening to this now. Very informative. Andras Reidelmeyer is speaking now on library and manuscript destruction in Bosnia (1990s) and continued mss destruction and theft in places like Syria and Libya. https://twitter.com/LabManuscript/status/1329062389069852672
He (Reidelmeyer) suggests this film: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/episode/2019/6/26/the-love-of-books-the-brave-librarians-of-sarajevo/
Now, Hegnar Watenpaugh is discussing her experience with how art history has approached these issues of cultural heritage restitution. See her book: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23162
Watenpaugh is discussing "data asymmetry" in art history provenance issues. What details are included/excluded?
And who can afford (literally) to undertake litigation against museums?
And who can afford (literally) to undertake litigation against museums?
in response to question from audience regarding post-colonial repatriation: Reidlmeyer says that instead of (western institutions) saying places don't have capacity to take care of materials (stolen from them), work with them to build their capacity.
. @HeghnarW is discussing the conflict going on in Artsakh now as watching cultural heritage destruction in real time.
