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Cultural heritage and war conflicts
March 12, 20157:30 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.
The former director of the Fine Arts Museum of Cordoba, Fuensanta García de la Torre, provides a historical overview and examines current events in the Arab world
This conference is intended to offer a reflection on the preventive conservation of cultural heritage, a concept which must include the protection of cultural heritage in the event of war-related conflicts, with the involvement of international bodies such as the ICOM, ICOMOS and Blue Shield and their relationship with the protection of cultural heritage during times of armed conflict. The historical changes in the effect of wars on such heritage will be analyzed until reaching the current situation in the Arab and Muslim world, in which different situations are damaging or destroying a heritage of incalculable value to mankind’s history: Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali, Egypt, Syria…
Fuensanta García de la Torre
With a degree in Art History from the University of Seville, in 1980 she became a professor at the University of Cordoba. From 1977-1978, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs granted her a Museum Studies scholarship at Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, working for a time as a “Custode ausiliare” at the Vatican Museums.
From 1981 to 2012, she was the director of the Fine Arts Museum of Cordoba, after earning a position in the Higher Body of Expert Museum Conservators. In 1982, she was awarded a Ministry of Culture scholarship at the Spanish Academy of History and Archeology in Rome.
She forms part of the Academic Commission of the Museum Studies master’s degree program at the University of Granada, where she is also a professor. She is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Professional Museologists Association of Spain. She was also a member of the Andalusian Museums Commission and a director of the Preventive Conservation Program for Andalusia’s museums. She has curated exhibitions on the collections of the Fine Arts Museum of Cordoba in different Spanish capitals. In recent years, her research and publications have focused on the history of Spanish drawing, Julio Romero de Torres and the preventive conservation of cultural goods.
Aleppo Mosque (David Rose / The Telegraph)
