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
The fourth international conference of the International Cultural Property Society will take place
at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on
October 11, 2025. The conference opens at 8.00am on Saturday, October 11 and continues
until 4.30pm.
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.
Details of registration will follow shortly.
To express your interest in attending, please
email 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.
