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UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Gala Porras-Kim About the program: Gala Porras-Kim will speak about The weight of a patina of time, an exhibition featuring works emerging from conversations with Fowler Museum conservators and curators about Mexican archaeology and conservation. Her in-depth explorations of the uncertain histories of ancient objects and their conservation reimagine their […]
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Dr. Poshyvailo with a ceramic rooster rescued from the air bombed block of flats in the town of Borodianka that came to be a symbol of Ukrainian resilience. April 2022, Borodianka, Kyiv Region. Credit: Bohdan Poshyvailo, Maidan Museum. UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Ihor Poshyvailo Director, National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution […]
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Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary Roger Michel Executive Director, The Institute for Digital Archaeology. About the program: The Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor […]
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A Conversation with Dr. Judith F. Baca on the creation, impact and conservation of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. "Standing at the river’s edge, I saw the concreted arroyos as scars in the land. I dreamed of a “tattoo on the scar where the river once ran,” and an endless narrative that would recover […]
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Speaker: Sarah Sutton Date: February 4, 2022. 11:00am Title: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: D(d)iplomacy for Neighbors and Nations Cultural heritage has been undervalued as a community and national resource in addressing climate change. Historic landscapes are critical waterline buffers and biodiversity habitats. Structures are refuges and examples of resilient construction. Human-made objects and art […]
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Dr. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art New Orleans Museum of Art Friday, November 12, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. PDT About the program: Dr. Ezeluoma will discuss the restitution of Benin cultural patrimony. In 1897, the British government acted on a request from the Royal Niger Company to remove the Benin Oba (king), who […]
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UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series Jeanelle Austin is co-founder and lead caretaker of the George Floyd Global Memorial, where she guides a team of volunteers to stand in the unique space of preservation and protest. She is also the creator of Racial Agency Initiative, a racial justice leadership coaching company. She began tending to George […]
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Gabrielle Tayac Associate Professor of Public History, George Mason University Former Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian with opening remarks by Dr. Darnell Hunt Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences Professor of Sociology and African American Studies About the lecture: A family of baskets. A library in a shell. A vow breathing […]
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Dr. Glenn Wharton Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials invites you to attend UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Dr. Spencer Crew Acting Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture speaking on History, Memory and Conservation: Preserving the Past for Future Generations with opening remarks by […]
