Wednesday December 11
9:30 Gathering
10:00-12:00 Panel I:
Genocide and Restitution: A Comparative Framework
Chair: Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University
Avraham Roet
A Holocaust Survivor and Active in Restitution of Stolen Art
The Washington Principles – A personal Perspective
Wouter Veraart,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Beyond Property. A Reflection on the Value of Restitution of Looted Cultural Objects
Rajika Shah,
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
The Holocaust and Beyond: Successes, Limitations, and the Challenges of Property Restitution in United States Courts
Ümit Kurt,
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Legal and official Plunder of Armenian and Jewish Properties in Com- parative Perspective: The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Panel II:
Restituting Culture: Between Books and Artworks
Chair: Orit Lev-Segev, Tel Aviv University
Anna Holzer-Kawalko,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Beyond Restitution and Nationalization. German-Jewish Libraries in Czechoslovakia after 1945
Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz,
Art Historian & Provenance Researcher
Polish, Jewish,‘Post-Jewish’: National Narrative and Restitution of the Nazi-Confiscated Art in Poland
Shlomit Steinberg,
The Israel Museum
Constant Challenges and Partial Success – Provenance Research at the Israel Museum
Alexander Herman,
The Institute of Art and Law
Museums, Restitution and Colonial-era Artefacts: Law, Ethics and France’s Sarr Savoy Report
15:30-17:00 Panel III:
Who Owns Kafka?
Chair: Vered Lev-Kenaan, University of Haifa
Nili Cohen,
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Who Owns Kafka? A Tale of Two Decisions
Shulamit Almog,
University of Haifa
Literature Alongside Law: Kafka and the Impossibility of not Hoping
Avigdor Feldman ,
Lawyer and Publicist
Kafka in Israel: ‘Ole chadash’ or Illegal Immigrant Looking for Asylum, or at least Work
17:30-19:00 Room 105 (S. E. Hoofien Hall)
Stage Reading from “Return to Haifa”, a play by Boaz Gaon
Based on the novella by Ghassan Kanafani
Discussion: Boaz Gaon, Ariel Shetreet, Zahiye Kundos
Thursday, December 12
09:30-11:15 Panel IV:
The Washington Principles as a Paradigm Change
Chair: Aharon Mor, Researcher and publicist on Restitution of Jewish Property from the Holocaust-Era
Colette Avital,
Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel
Twenty Years to the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art: Was the Promise Realized?
Matthias Weller,
Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
After 20 years of the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art: Time for a Restatement of Restitution Rules
Eyal Dolev,
Independent Provenance Researcher
“Too much information” – Can Existing Nazi Documents Undermine a “Good” Nazi Looted Art Case?
11:30-13:00 Panel V:
Rethinking Private Law
Chair: Mayo Moran, University of Toronto
Andrzej Jakubowski,
Institute of Legal Studies, University of Opole
Restitution-in-Kind of Cultural Property: A True Reparation for Heritage Loss?
Kristijan Poljanec,
University of Zagreb
EU Approach to the Issue of Restitution of Nazi Looted Art: The Past, Present, and Future
Tamar Megiddo,
Tel Aviv University
Human Rights and State Authority to Settle Private Property Claims in the Aftermath of Conflict
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Panel VI:
Cultural Restitution and Transitional Justice: Israel-Palestine
Chair: Natalie Davidson, Tel Aviv University
Jennifer Orange,
University of Toronto
Museum Practices in Support of Transitional Justice
Kamal Moed, Sakhnin Academic College for Teacher Education
The Sad Story of a Palestinian Educator’s Library
Said Abu Shaqra, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery
Art as Catalyst for Social Change
Rona Sela, Tel Aviv University
Awda (Return): Palestinian Materials and Cultural Assets Looted and Hidden in Israeli Archives
16:30 Concluding Roundtable:
Restitution, Private Law and Transitional Justice
Mayo Moran, Wouter Veraart, Leora Bilsky, Alex Herman
Venue:
The Sonia and Edward Kossoy Conference Room (307)
The Minerva Center for Human Rights
Buchmann Faculty of Law
Tel Aviv University
Conference Organisers:
Leonora Bilsky, Mayo Moran, Alexander Herman