Neil Silberman Moderates IIC Istanbul Panel

As part of the annual meeting of the International Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) held Istanbul in September 2010, UMass Amherst Center for Heritage and Society Coordinator of Projects and Policy Initiatives Neil Silberman was invited to moderate and serve as commentator for its distinguished "Dialogues for the New Century" Roundtable.

This year's roundtable, entitled Between Home and History: Managing the Interface Between Preservation and Living Historic Places, will explore the conflicts that emerge when pressures of development, gentrification or regeneration challenge our desire to preserve places of historic value that are also home to living communities.

In addition to Silberman, the panelists include:

Dr. David Lowenthal, renowned author, historian and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London. Author of The Past Is a Foreign Country (Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Prof. Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, oral historian and Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts andSocial Sciences at Sabancı University, Istanbul.

Dr. Stephen Bond, preservation architect and co-author of Managing Built Heritage: The Role of Cultural Significance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Dr.Ayfer Bartu Candan, anthropologist, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Recognized for research in the areas of urban anthropology, the politics of history and heritage, and the contemporary uses of the past.

Dr. Francesco Siravo, preservation architect and consultant to UNESCO, ICCROM and the World Bank. Member of the "Historic Cities Support Programme", Aga Khan Trust for Culture, in Cairo, Lahore, Samarkand and Zanzibar.

Aslı Kıyak Ingin, architect, designer and activist with a specific interest in how state intervention in theurban fabric of a city affects some of the poorest residents.

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning author

For more information on this event, see http://www.iiconservation.org/dialogues/

Silberman will also chair the ICOMOS Advisory Committee Symposium on "Heritage " in Dublin in October.
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