Università Roma Tre

Class Calendar

Thursday 10 October Introduction to the themes of the course:
• Cultural property and cultural heritage
o identity and community
o community and cultural production
o cultural production and resistance
• Colonial and post-colonial
• The West and the rest
• Museums
• International law and its institutions
o national, international, global
o community, nation, state
o Indigenous Peoples
o legal protection of cultural property and cultural heritage
o immovability and movability
o tangibility and intangibility
o digitization
o commodification
o intellectual property
Thursday 17 October Cultural property in the colonial and post-colonial periods

Thursday 24 October International Law I:
• Structure, instruments and institutions
• Cultural property and cultural heritage

Thursday 31 October International Law II:
• Cultural property and cultural heritage
• Intellectual property

Thursday 14 November (Mis)appropriation I: Tangibles
• Relocation and decontextualization

Thursday 21 November (Mis)appropriation II: Intangibles
• Decontextualization, digitization and commodification

Thursday 28 November Restitution and resistance:

F Macmillan, Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community (Routledge, 2021), chs 3, 4, 5 & 7

F Macmillan, “Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage: Towards Interdisciplinarity" in I Calboli & M L Montagnani, Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives ((Oxford, 2021)

F Macmillan, “Regulating Communities: Strategies for an Open Museum Sector” in M Arisi & G Dore, Open Up Museums! (LED Edizioni, forthcoming)

A Vrdoljak, International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects (Cambridge, 2006), chs 1, 2 & 4-7

UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1970
UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972
UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003
UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005
UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects 1995
WTO Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property 1995