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2012 ARCA Award nominations,Award for Art Protection and Security
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2012 ARCA Award nominations,Award for Art Protection and Security
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Karl von Habsburg and Dr. Joris Kila Jointly Win 2012 ARCA Award for Art Protection and Security
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| Joris Kila (right) in Tripoli on 29 September |
ARCA presents
four annual awards. Nominations
are made by ARCA staff, trustees, and members of the editorial board of ARCA’s
peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of
Art Crime. The winners are
decided by a vote of the trustees, and are presented at ARCA’s annual
conference, held in Amelia, Italy on June 23 and 24 of this year. For more
information about ARCA or to attend its annual conference, please contact Lynda
Albertson: lynda.albertson (at) artcrimeresearch.org.
ARCA Award for Art Protection and
Security
Past winners:
Francesco Rutelli (2009), Dick Drent (2010), Lord Colin Renfrew (2011)
Shortlisted
nominees: Matthew Bogdanos, Laurie Rush
2012 joint
winners: Karl von Habsburg and Joris
Kila
Karl von
Habsburg is president of the Association of National Committees of the BlueShield and, jointly with Dr. Joris Kila, he runs the International MilitaryCultural Resources Work Group.
Habsburg
is a former member of the European Parliament for Austria, and has specialized
in International Humanitarian Law and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection.
A former air force pilot, he still serves in the reserve of the Austrian armed
forces as a key Cultural Property Protection Officer. He is vice president of
the Austrian Society for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and a founder of
Blue Shield Austria. In addition to being a frequent lecturer, he is an author
of several publications on the subject of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Protection and Military Cultural Property Protection and has carried out
multiple documentation missions in conflict zones.
Kila
is chairman of the International Military Cultural Resources Work Group. He is
a researcher at the Institute of Culture and History of the University ofAmsterdam, and a board member for civil-military relations with the WorldAssociation for the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage inTimes of Armed Conflict (WATCH), based in Rome. Additionally, he serves as a
community fellow of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, is
a member of the US Commands Cultural Historical Action Group and is Chair of
the International Cultural Resources Working Group. Until recently he served as
network manager and acting chairman of the cultural affairs dept. at the
Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) Group North in the Netherlands. In that capacity he undertook several
cultural rescue missions in Iraq and FYROM (Macedonia).
Habsburg
and Kila are jointly awarded for their long-term service to the protection of
cultural heritage in conflict zones.
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