Webinar “Preserving Heritage During a Conflict – Sharing Lessons Learned”

This discussion will bring together four heritage specialists with extensive experience working in conflict and post-conflict areas. It will focus on knowledge sharing, identifying priorities and collaboration opportunities, and proposing actionable strategies relevant to the current protection of heritage in Ukraine. 

Corine Wegner is an independent cultural property professional, adviser, and trainer specializing in the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflict and other disasters. With over 20 years of experience as an art historian, museum curator, and emergency responder for cultural heritage in crisis, she has served as a U.S. Army Monuments Officer. From 2012 to 2024, she directed the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, an outreach program focused on preserving cultural heritage in crisis situations both in the U.S. and internationally. Prior to that, from 1999 to 2012, she was an associate curator of decorative arts at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Corine is also the founding past-president and a current board member of the U.S. Committee of Blue Shield (USCBS). 

Ihor Poshyvailo  is the General Director of the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity (Maidan Museum), a cultural activist, ethnologist, museologist, and arts curator. Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ihor has coordinated the Heritage Emergency Response Initiative (HERI) and, since 2023, the Agency for Cultural Resilience. He is a member of the National Council for the Reconstruction of Ukraine and a co-coordinator of the CER Black Sea Regional Hub. Throughout the Russian-Ukrainian war, Ihor and his team, with international support, have provided on-the-ground assistance to hundreds of cultural institutions and thousands of individuals. His work includes documenting damage to cultural heritage, training cultural first responders, collecting objects and oral histories related to cultural resistance in Ukraine, organizing exhibitions and cultural diplomacy activities, and strengthening local and national capacities.

Kateryna Kublytska is a Ukrainian architect and conservator recognized by the State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture. She is a member of the SaveKharkiv initiative group and an active civic activist. Kateryna is deeply engaged in documenting the damage to architectural heritage in Kharkiv and the surrounding region and contributes to projects focused on conserving and restoring monuments impacted by hostilities.

Tetiana Balukova is a trained architect with extensive professional experience in both Ukraine and Germany. She currently serves as the head of the Lviv City Department of Historic Environment Protection. Previously, she led the Architectural and Archaeological Service in Lviv and worked as an architectural consultant for the GIZ GmbH project “Municipal development and rehabilitation of the Old City of Lviv”.

Moderator: Daria Ozhyhanova, Kharkiv School of Architecture

When? 17 January 2024, 18:00-19:30 EET

Where? Zoom (get the link after registration)

Language: English with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian

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This series is part of the project “Architectural Heritage Preservation in Times of War: The Ukrainian Model” implemented by the Heritage Management Organization in partnership with the Kharkiv School of Architecture and Skeiron, and supported by the Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Embassy to Ukraine (views expressed during the webinars do not reflect the official position of the U.S. Government).