[MSN] SAFE and the Bayside Historial Society Announce the Second Event in its Spring 2007 Lecture Series: "Preservation Imperative"

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SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone and the Bayside Historical  
Society Announce the Second Event in its Spring 2007 Lecture Series:  
"Preservation Imperative"

Who Owns the Past?
Cultural Heritage and the Law in the 21st Century
with Lucille Roussin

Sunday, May 20th at 3:00 pm

The Bayside Historical Society
The Officers’ Club
Fort Totten Park
208 Totten Avenue
Bayside, NY  11359

Suggested donation: $3.00

While antiquities are as old as civilizations, a body of law  
concerning antiquities began relatively late, primarily in the last  
century. There are two types of laws that govern the transfer of  
cultural objects, national laws and international law. By referencing  
legal constructs we attempt to address relevant issues in cultural  
property legislation, such as: How may we distinguish the term  
"cultural heritage" from "cultural property?" One expert has  
distinguished "heritage" as being essentially a collective and public  
notion, belonging by definition in the realm of public interest and  
held for the public good. Cultural "property" embraces many objects -  
virtually anything that can be collected and displayed, but is more  
narrowly defined as antiquities. This lecture will discuss how the  
field of law is being defined and refined as more and more legal  
issues as to the trade in objects of cultural heritage arise.

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Lucille A. Roussin is the founder and director of the Holocaust  
Restitution Claims Practicum at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law  
in New York City, where she teaches a seminar, Remedies for Wartime  
Confiscation. She also teaches a course on "Art, the Law and  
Professional Ethics" at the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion  
Institute of Technology. She is an associate with the firm of  
McCallion & Associates and earned her law degree in 1996 from the  
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Belkin Scholar.  
She was Deputy Research Director of the Art and Cultural Property  
Team of the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets and was an  
associate in the Art and International Law Practice Group at Herrick,  
Feinstein LLP in New York City. In 2001, she negotiated the first  
restitution of a rare Jewish ritual object to a private family in the  
United States.

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