October 20, 2022: 11:00am (NYC, USA-EDT), 4:00pm (London, UK), 7:30pm (Kabul, Afgahnistan)

PROGRAMME (The following schedule is listed in the UK Time Zone. For USA-EDT, count back 5 hours. For USA-PDT, count back 8 hours. For Afghanistan’s Time , count forward 3.5 hours. For Japan’s Time, count forward 13 hours.)

4:00-4:05pm Introduction and Welcome
Murray Fraser (President, SAH-GB) & Patricia Morton (President, SAH-USA)

Panel A: Architecture in Face of Political Transitions
Moderator: Vimalin Rujivacharakul (SAH, USA)

4.05-4.20pm Jolyon Leslie, Architect and Advisor, Afghan Cultural Heritage Consulting Organization (ACHCO), Kabul, Afghanistan
Monuments and Memory: Reflections on the Politics of Built Heritage

4.20-4.35pm Susan Huntington, Co-founder of the Huntington Archive & Distinguished University Professor (Emerita), Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
The Huntington Archive and Afghan Monuments Before the Soviet-Afghan War

4.35-4.50pm Sayed Mossadeq Khalili, Former Deputy Minister of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Paris, France
Afghanistan's Current Approach to Architectural Heritage: Case Studies of Timurid Architecture

4.50-5.05pm Paolo Fontani, Director, UNESCO Field Office, Baghdad, Iraq & Former Director, UNESCO Field Office, Kabul, Afghanistan
Heritage for Peace and Nation Building: the Case of Afghanistan

5.05-5.25pm Q&A

5:25-5:40pm Comfort Break

Panel B: Strategies for Built Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan
Moderator: Max Sternberg (SAHGB, UK)

5.40-5.55pm Brendan Cassar
Head of Cultural Programs, UNESCO Field Office, Kabul, Afghanistan
UNESCO in Afghanistan: Architecture and Cultural Programs at Present and into the Future

5.55-6.10pm Georgios Toubekis, Researcher and ICOMOS Expert, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Aachen, Germany
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley: Preserving UNESCO World Heritage in Afghanistan

6.10-6.25pm Shumpei Iwai
Curator, Ryukoku Museum, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan
Bamiyan Buddhist Caves and Squinches: Contributions from the Japanese Research Team in Afghanistan

6:25-6:40pm Fotini Christia, Professor of Political Sciences
Nikolaos Vlavianos, Graduate Student, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Ways of Seeing: Documenting and 3D Scanning of Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan

6:40-7:00pm Q&A / symposium conclusion