The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War

About

Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) as well as a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She is the Founder and Faculty Director of Penn's Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. An expert in the law of armed conflict military ethics and national security law she is a co-editor (with Jens David Ohlin) of The Oxford Series in Ethics National Security and the Rule of Law and a well-published author in the areas of national security and democratic governance. Professor Finkelstein is a frequent radio broadcast and print commentator. Derek Gillman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Art History and Museum Leadership and Executive Director of University Collections and Exhibitions Drexel University. He was President of the Barnes Foundation from 2006-13 and prior to that of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is author of The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press) a board member of the International Cultural Property Society an emeritus member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and a consulting scholar in the Asian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Frederik Rosén holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and directs the Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict. His prior positions include Associate Professor at the faculty of Law University of Copenhagen and Senior Researcher and the Danish Institute for International Studies. Dr. Rosén has for a decade functioned as a key advisor to governments and international organizations on cultural property protection in relation to armed conflicts. He has published extensively on international law and security including the monograph Collateral Damage. A Candid History of Peculiar Form of Death (2016).