The International Cultural Property Society organises and funds occasional conferences and other events for the promotion of scholarship and discourse on cultural property.
UPCOMING EVENTS
SUSTAINING CULTURE
Legal and Practical Challenges of Climate Change
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY
THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY SOCIETY
CO-SPONSORED BY DREXEL UNIVERSITY THOMAS R. KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2025
8.00 am to 5.00 pm.
This important conference will address a number of current issues arising from environmental change and similar phenomena as they affect human culture in tangible and intangible forms. Speakers will discuss approaches to resolving the impact of events such as forest fires, floods, pollution, mass migration and armed conflict on heritage sites, built heritage, Indigenous cultures and varied cultural practices. We will also examine strategies to resolve and ameliorate these losses, including those developed by states, international organizations and the private sector, as well as possible solutions arising from new technology and financial and economic strategies.
Speakers comprise experts from universities, the insurance industry, Indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, museums and the practice of law. Among those participating are: Stephen W. Clark, General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Trust, Jorge Sanchez Cordero, Mexican Center for Uniform Law, Darlee Sambo Dorough, Inuit Circumpolar Council, and C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania.
Registration Fees:
$100 regular and $25 for students and online participants.
5 CLE credits will be available to attorneys licensed in PA, through the Kline School of Law
The registration link is here:
For further information, please email Ess Paige, ep636@drexel.edu, with copy to Professor Derek Gillman, dag335@drexel.edu
PAST EVENTS
2022
In conjunction with the Art-Law Centre, Universite de Geneve, the International Cultural Property Society funded and hosted the international conference ‘Negotiating the Human: Justice, Ethics and Culture in Dealing with Human Remains’ held in Geneva on 16 September 2022.
The keynote lecture was delivered by the Hon Justice Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
The full program of the conference is here
2013
In honour of its founder, Professor John Henry Merryman, the International Cultural Property Society organised and hosted an international conference on ‘Thinking about Cultural Property: The Legal and Public Policy Legacies of John Henry Merryman’ at Stanford University.
Selected papers from talks delivered at the conference were published in a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Property in August 2014, volume 21, issue 3.
