For the conference “The Constitution of Cultural Property: Interim Conclusions” in June 2011, two members of the DFG Research Group on Cultural Property engaged in a discussion on the relation between scholarship and policy recommendations.
The debate centered around the following motion:
This research group holds that scholars have a social/global responsibility to provide policy recommendations in contexts and negotiation bodies concerned with cultural property.
In the upcoming couple of posts, the contributions for the motion – by Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer (Economics) – and against this motion – by Stefan Groth, M.A. (European Ethnology) – as well as the moderator’s comments by Prof. Dr. Regina Bendix (Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology) will be reproduced on this blog for further discussion.