Heritage: Rebuilding the Future from the Past

Heritage: Rebuilding the Future from the Past

By Jacopo Gnisci, Foteini Spingou, Miranda Williams, Judith McKenzie, and Rahel Fronda.

Date and time

Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:00 - 16:00 GMT+1

Location

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

66 St Giles' Oxford OX1 3LU United Kingdom

Description

PROGRAMME

11.00 Registration, morning tea/coffee

11.20 Bill Finlayson (CBRL) Opening Remarks

11.30 Judith McKenzie (Manar al-Athar, Oxford) “The Built Environment and Identity”

12.00 Robert Bewley (EAMENA, Oxford) “Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Approach and Recent Results”

12.30 Edmund Herzig (Oriental Studies, Oxford) “Bactria/Balkh – Cultural Heritage Research and Management in Afghanistan”

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00 Ross Burns (Monuments of Syria, Sydney) “Aleppo – a Reckoning”

2.30 Round table discussion

3.00-4.00 Afternoon tea/coffee, with book launch for Ross Burns' Aleppo: A History and Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East

Organised by

Convenors: Jacopo Gnisci, Foteini Spingou, Miranda Williams, Judith McKenzie, and Rahel Fronda. For any questions, please contact Jacopo Gnisci,

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