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Specialist Conference "20 Years Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future"

Marking the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Washington Principles, the German Lost Art Foundation – in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – held an international specialist conference "20 Years Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future" from November 26 to 28, 2018 at the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” in Berlin. The conference was sponsored by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media.

Be­low you will find the doc­u­men­ta­tion of the con­fer­ence. The en­tire pan­el pro­ceed­ings were post­ed as a live-stream dur­ing the con­fer­ence, now the films are avail­able as a per­ma­nent record. Ac­cord­ing to the the­mat­ic sec­tions of the con­fer­ence, the ma­te­ri­al was sub­di­vid­ed to ease your ac­cess. Fur­ther­more, you will find those manuscripts that speak­ers pro­vid­ed for doc­u­men­ta­tion. For your in­for­ma­tion, you can down­load

 

Film Doc­u­men­ta­tion: In oder to lo­cate spe­cif­ic speak­ers, please use the con­fer­ence pro­gram (see above).

Wel­come and In­tro­duc­tion

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Sec­tion 1 Eval­u­a­tion

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Sec­tion 2 Just and Fair So­lu­tions

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Sec­tion 3 Prospects and Progress

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Sec­tion 4 Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty

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Manuscripts that were pro­vid­ed by the speak­ers for pub­lic use in the con­fer­ence doc­u­men­ta­tion are avail­able here. They are list­ed in or­der of ap­pear­ance (see con­fer­ence pro­gram above).

Wel­come

Com­mis­sion­er for Cul­ture and Me­dia Moni­ka Grüt­ters

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(Ger­man manuscript on­ly)

Botschafter Stu­art Eizen­stat

(En­glish manuscript on­ly)

Sek­tion 2 Just And Fair So­lu­tions

Roger Strauch The Mosse Art Resti­tu­tion Project: A col­lab­o­ra­tive Ap­proach (Manuscript avail­able in Ger­man and En­glish)

Ad­di­tion­al Ma­te­ri­als:

On Novem­ber 26, 2018, in the con­text of the con­fer­ence, a Joint Dec­la­ra­tion Re­gard­ing the Im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Wash­ing­ton Prin­ci­ples (PDF, 25 KB) from 1998 was signed by Com­mis­sion­er for Cul­ture and Me­dia Moni­ka Grüt­ters and Am­bas­sador Stu­art Eizen­stat.

Press Re­lease (PDF, 417 KB) of the Lost Art Foun­da­tion in­clud­ing Con­fer­ence Con­clu­sions re­gard­ing the fu­ture tasks in im­ple­ment­ing the Wash­ing­ton Prin­ci­ples.

Co­op­er­a­tive Project Kör­ber Foun­da­tion and Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion

Lead­ing up to the spe­cial­ist con­fer­ence, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion and the Kör­ber Foun­da­tion (Kör­ber-Stiftung) co­op­er­at­ed in or­ga­niz­ing a work­shop for the Kör­ber Foun­da­tion’s “EU­STO­RY Next Gen­er­a­tion Sum­mit 2018” from Novem­ber 14 to 19, 2018. To­geth­er, they of­fered a work­shop on “Resti­tu­tion of Art: Find­ing Just and Fair So­lu­tions” for six­teen young Eu­ro­peans from twelve coun­tries. Two of the par­tic­i­pants and a work­shop mod­er­a­tor pre­sent­ed their project in sec­tion 4 as “Wash­ing­ton Prin­ci­ples 2018: Per­spec­tives of Young Peo­ple from Eu­rope”. A short sum­ma­ry video of the work­shop re­sults can be viewed here:

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Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on the work­shop and the com­plete cre­ative film projects of the par­tic­i­pants you will find here. Gen­er­al in­for­ma­tion about the Kör­ber Foun­da­tion and a ret­ro­spect of the EU­STO­RY Next Gen­er­a­tion Sum­mit 2018 you can find here