Università Roma Tre

What is cultural heritage and why is it important? When, where and how cultural heritage started to be protected? Which are the legal tools at our disposal to protect cultural heritage? Is cultural heritage a human rights issue? This course aims at providing answers to these questions and hand of international treatises, national laws and case study. In order to introduce the students to the complexity of the topic, a historical overview (with focus on Italy) will be provided to understand how the legal concept of cultural heritage developed at a national, European and global level.

Course reading materials:
Simona Pinton and Lauso Zagado (eds.), "Cultural Heritage: Scenarios 2015-2017", Venezia: Ed. Ca’ Foscari, 2017 (extracts).
Available online: http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-179-9/978-88-6969-179-9_CGTicPb.pdf.
Other materials will be provided during the course, according to the course schedule.