S11E01: Conservation and Conflict

With the help of special guest host Lisa Mol we talk about the impact of war and conflict on heritage: from stone research and training initiatives and all the way to saving Ukrainian digital heritage en-masse. We’re also joined by Emma Cunliffe from Blue Shield, Sarah Stannage from IIC, and Richard Mulholland from Northumbria University as we discuss what’s being done already and try to figure out how we can all help. 00:01:31 Explosives meet geology 00:05:50 Training over intervention 00:10:58 Priorities in war and its aftermath 00:16:13 Interview with Emma Cunliffe at Blue Shield 00:27:13 When is damage itself heritage? 00:32:08 Saving Ukraine’s digital heritage 00:37:58 Looting 00:43:44 Interview with Sarah Stannage from IIC 00:50:13 Other funding, support and resources re: Ukraine 00:51:21 Addendum time! 00:53:05 Comfort-a-Conservator 00:55:59 Interview with Richard Mulholland 01:07:45 Go forth and do good Show Notes: - Heritage in the Crossfire: https://www.heritageinthecrossfire.com/ - Get in touch with Dr Lisa Mol: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/LisaMol - S01E10 Salvage: https://thecword.show/2017/07/05/s01e10-salvage/ - Blue Shield International: https://theblueshield.org/ - Blue Shield UK: http://ukblueshield.org.uk/ - Emma’s blog entry about her new book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/blog/heraldry-and-genealogy/safeguarding-cultural-property-in-the-1954-hague-convention-all-possible-steps/ - ‘Safeguarding Cultural Property and the 1954 Hague Convention’ by Emma Cunliffe and Paul Fox: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276660/safeguarding-cultural-property-and-the-1954-hague-convention/ - Examples of churches in Europe left in ruin after WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ruins_of_churches_destroyed_during_World_War_II - Frederik Rosén’s publication list (as mentioned by Lisa): https://www.heritageconflict.org/frederik - Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO): https://www.sucho.org/ - Iraq Museum Looting 15 Years On: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/04/10/iraq-museum-looting--15-years-on.html - IIC Opportunities Fund: https://www.iiconservation.org/about/awards/opportunities - IIC official Ukraine update page: https://www.iiconservation.org/content/how-ukraine-moving-protect-its-cultural-heritage-updated-22-march-2022 - Nordiska Museet fund for Ukrainian museums: https://www.nordiskamuseet.se/artiklar/ekonomisk-insamling-att-radda-ukrainas-kulturarv - Call for supplies for Ukrainian heritage protection: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/supplies-needed-to-protect-ukraine-s-cultural-heritage.html - Icon’s Support for Ukraine page: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/support-for-ukraine-conserving-cultural-heritage.html - Icon’s Ukraine event on March 24th 2022: https://www.icon.org.uk/events/ukraine-supporting-cultural-heritage-and-conservation-colleagues.html - About Richard’s work: https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/VisualMaterialCultures/?page_id=534 - Richard’s paper in Studies in Conservation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/00393630.2022.2025706?needAccess=true Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Lisa Mol. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2022.