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Emergency Assessment of Threats to Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh
Project type Documentation, Cartography Institution type University Parent institution University of Durham (UK) Methods Satellite imagery, Cartography (GIS) Geographic area Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan Website https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/archaeology/research/archaeology-research-projects/emergency-assessment-of-threats-to-heritage-in-nagorno-karabakh/ Summary The project aims first to create a baseline dataset (an inventory) covering archaeological sites and standing historic buildings in Nagorno-Karabakh, giving equal consideration to sites of all periods and heritage of all communities that live or have lived in the region. It also undertakes an assessment of the current condition of these places, primarily through satellite imagery inspection and published sources. The result offers a snapshot of the extent and condition of heritage places in Nagorno-Karabakh as of 2022, providing a reference dataset to…
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Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is registered as a private foundation in the United States. It sponsors activities and programs with a primary focus on preservation, transmission, and instruction of Persian culture as defined below. In addition it develops initiatives that provide support for partnerships with other nonprofit organizations and institutions such as schools, universities, libraries, museums, and private sector donors that share its goals in support of Persian culture. https://roshan-institute.org/
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Workshop | Mapping the Legal and Institutional Contexts of Archives in Art History and Archaeology. The Near East, Iranian Worlds, the Caucasus
Invitation only 📅 17 septembre 2026 📍 INHA, Paris The workshop aims to bring together, on the one hand, researchers working on archival collections in art history and archaeology, and on the other, legal scholars, in order to create a working space and to propose answers to the legal issues raised by the study of these archives. The starting point of this meeting is a series of questions: what legal rules apply to archival collections? Does the legal framework vary according to geographical area or the nature of the collections under study? What are the legal prerequisites for working with an archival collection? This first session is intended to inaugurate…
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Wijad Academy, Session 3 | The history and the identity of manuscript
Invitation only training 📅 1-5 June 2026 📍 INHA and BnF Richelieu, Paris Wijad Academy is a two-year, 80-hour program for MA and PhD students/candidates in disciplines that work with manuscripts produced in the Arabic script. The program of the academy covers different scientific, historical, material, aesthetic, legal, and technological aspects associated with the study of manuscripts. Wijad has a particular focus on Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts. Proposed by the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in 2024 and supported by a consortium of eight academic and cultural institutions in France, Lebanon and Turkey. INHA will host a session on iconography in Arab manuscript on 3 June 2026. The event…
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Caucasus Heritage Watch
Project type Documentation, Research Institution type University Parent institution Cornell University Methods Satellite imagery, Cartography (GIS) Geophraphic area Armenia, Azerbaijan Website https://caucasusheritage.cornell.edu Summary The Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) programme, led by Cornell University, is a research initiative founded in 2020 to monitor and document threatened cultural heritage in the South Caucasus, particularly in Nagorno-Karabakh. It uses satellite imagery to track the condition of sites in near real time and conducts historical analyses of heritage erasure. Its goal is to produce evidence, strengthen political accountability and alert the international community, while contributing to heritage preservation in a conflict context.
