2010: World Heritage for Tomorrow

6th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by JSPS and BTU Cottbus

Date: February 17–20, 2010
Venue: Cottbus

PROGRAM

February 17th

19:00 Reception Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus

February 18th

09:00 Introduction to JSPS (the organization and its activities)
Hiromi Kawamura (JSPS Tokyo)
09:20 What is authentic Hagia Sophia? A Question on Authenticity and History
Prof. Dr. Kenichiro Hidaka (Tsukuba University)
Abstract Hidaka (38 KB)
09:40 Conserving mural paintings as intermediate layers between immovable and movable heritage: case studies from Central and East Asia
Dr. Yoko Taniguchi (Tsukuba University)
Abstract Taniguchi (46 KB)
10:00 The UNESCO policy of ‘Filling the Gaps’ concerning the Industrial Heritage: German Mining Sites and Swiss watchmaking cities La Chaux-de-Fond/Le Locle
Dr. Axel Föhl (Landschaftsverband Rheinland)
Abstract Föhl (35 KB)
10:20 World Heritage Sites without heritage
Dr. Aylin Orbasli (Oxford Brookes University)
Abstract Orbasli (37 KB)
10:40 World Heritage – Who inherits What from Whom?
Prof. Dr. Walther Zimmerli (BTU Cottbus)
Abstract Zimmerli (35 KB)
11:00 Questions
11:20 Coffee Break
11:40 Discussion
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Conservation of cultural landscape in Shirakawa-go
Dr. Nobu Kuroda (Tsukuba University)
Abstract Kuroda (42 KB)
14:20 Cultural landscapes and forests in Kyoto
Dr. Kazue Fukamachi (Kyoto University)
Abstract Fukamachi (36 KB)
14:40 Effectiveness of Buffer Zones: Comparative Study within Natural Heritages in Japan
Prof. Dr. Masahito Yoshida (Edogawa University)
Abstract Yoshida (37 KB)
15:00 World Heritage in a Changing Climate
Cathy Daly (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Abstract Daly (36 KB)
15:20 World Heritage, Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: From Sites to System
Sam Merrill (BTU Cottbus)
Abstract Merrill (36 KB)
15:40 Questions
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 Discussion
19:30 Dinner at Lobedan House

February 19th

09:00 The Effects of Environmental Degradation and People Management on World Heritage
Dr. Yasushi Mori (Shimane University)
Abstract Mori (16 KB)
09:20 Ways of seeing the Landscape in Germany and Japan
Dr. Hirofumi Ueda (Sapporo City University)
Abstract Ueda (37 KB)
09:40 The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg-maintenance and restoration
Dr. Gabriele Horn (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg)
Abstract Horn (16 KB)
10:00 What, How, For Whom? Thinking about engineering heritage and engineer’s intervention
Prof. Dr. Werner Lorenz (BTU Cottbus)
Abstract Lorenz (37 KB)
10:20 Stralsund: Conservation and Change
Prof. Dr. Inken Baller (BTU Cottbus)
Abstract Baller (16 KB)
10:40 Questions
11:00 Coffee Break
11:20 Discussion
12:20 Branitz Park and Lunch
14:20 Reconstruction boom in Japan: Its significance and background
Dr. Shigeatsu Shimizu (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties):
Abstract Shimizu (36 KB)
14:40 The World Heritage Convention: A Mediator Between Culture, Politics and Human Rights?
Smriti Pant (BTU Cottbus)
Abstract Pant (38 KB)
15:00 Mediating and presenting the Berlin Wall
Dr. Axel Klausmeier (Stiftung Berliner Mauer)
Abstract Klausmeier (36 KB)
15:20 The World Heritage List – Challenges and Threats
Prof. Dr. Boguslaw Szmygin (Lublin University of Technology)
Abstract Szmygin (47 KB)
15:40 A Moratorium for the World Heritage List?
Prof. Dr. Jörg Haspel (Landesdenkmalamt Berlin)
Abstract Haspel (37 KB)
16:00 Questions
16:20 Coffee Break
16:40 Discussion

February 20th

Dresden Excursion (08:20-19:00)