Lecture on vandalism

Lecture

"Legislative Lacunae? The Vandalism of Cultural Property: Legal
    Perspectives for Museum Professionals"
Lecture by Morwenna Blewett

In the Robing Room at Freemason's Hall
60 Great Queen Street
London WC2B 5AZ
23 June 2016

Doors open: 6pm
Talk: 6.30pm 8pm

Freemasons Hall is close to both Covent Garden and Holborn Tube
Stations.

Tickets:

ICON members: UKP10
Non-members: UKP15
Students: UKP 5 (student card required to be shown on the door)

Free
Wine and cheese are included in price of ticket.

Please apply for tickets through

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This lecture examines how purposeful damage to cultural property is
dealt with by the law of England and Wales.  It identifies and
investigates primarily, the main differences in the legal
definitions of property, cultural property, the historic environment
and damage as they span different legal mechanisms.  It is proposed
that reform is desirable to harmonise the differences between these
legal approaches so that movable cultural property is not left out
in the legislative cold, and might for the first time, be able to
join its immovable 'cousin' in being considered heritage in a legal
sense.

Morwenna Blewett is a paintings conservator at the National Gallery,
London.  She read the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of
Art in 2000 and subsequently trained as a paintings conservator,
also at the Courtauld, graduating in 2003.  She held an Andrew W.
Mellon Fellowship in Paintings Conservation at Worcester Art Museum,
Massachusetts, 2004-2006.  From 2006-2007, she held the Straus
Paintings Conservation Fellowship at Harvard.  She has worked as a
paintings conservator at the National Galleries of Scotland, and at
the Ebury street studio affiliated to the Hamilton Kerr Institute,
Cambridge University.  Along with Lynne Harrison, she revised the
National Gallery's response procedure to damage to its collection.
Inspired by this experience, she then completed an LLB in Law (First
Class Hons) at the University of Northumbria Law School in 2015,
focusing on malicious damage to cultural property.  Her thesis has
been published by a leading legal journal.  She is also a PhD
candidate at at Birkbeck, University of London.


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