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SUMMARY:UCLA/Getty Distinguished Speaker Series: L. Stephen Velasquez
DESCRIPTION:Glenn Wharton\nLore and Gerald Cunard Chair\,\nUCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\nProfessor\, Department of Art History\nProfessor\, Conservation of Material Culture \nand \nJason De León\nDirector\, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\nLloyd E. Cotsen Endowed Chair in Archaeology\nProfessor\, Department of Anthropology\nProfessor\, César E. Chávez Department of\nChicana/o and Central American Studies \ninvite you to attend\nUCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series\nfeaturing \n\n\n\nL. Stephen Velasquez\nCurator for the Division of Home and Community Life\,\nNational Museum of American History\, Smithsonian Institution\nspeaking on\n \n“Artifacts of Migrations: Arizona Desert\,\nOperation Pedro Pan and Crafting\nLatino Museum Representation”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 9\, 2026\n6:00 p.m. PT\nReception to follow\nJames West Alumni Center\, Collins Room\nUCLA Campus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the presentation:\n20th-century immigration policies in the U.S. tightened restrictions for some\, opened doors for others and continue to be a topic that polarizes groups across the United States. How can the National Museum of American History offer a personal and humanizing version of migration and the Latino experience? Objects collected for Operation Pedro Pan\, a letter written by a 14-year-old girl\, and material collected in the Arizona desert\, a pair of inscribed athletic shoes\, are examples of extraordinary migration journeys seldom told within a national context and reveal how individuals made sense of the everyday lived experiences of an often violent and traumatic migration process.\n\nAbout the speaker:\nL. Stephen Velasquez is a curator for the Division of Home and Community Life\, National Museum of American History. He is currently involved in a research project on Mexican vineyard workers in Napa and an upcoming exhibit\, “Corazón Y Vida: Lowriding Culture.” Past projects include the “Bracero Oral History Project” and associated traveling exhibit\, “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964\,” the exhibit “Mexican Treasures at the Smithsonian\,” “AZUCAR! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz\,” “A Collector’s Vision of Puerto Rico” and “Julia Child’s Kitchen at the Smithsonian.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Jeffrey P. Cunard.
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ucla-getty-distinguished-speaker-series-l-stephen-velasquez-wednesday-october-29-2025-600-pm/
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SUMMARY:UCLA/Getty Distinguished Speaker Series: Erica P. Jones & Carlee S. Forbes Friday\, January 30\, 2026 @ 11:00 AM PT
DESCRIPTION:Glenn Wharton\nProfessor\, UCLA Department of Art History\nLore and Gerald Cunard Chair\,\nUCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritageinvites you to attend\nUCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series:\n “Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting\nMeanings in African Arts”\n\n \nFeaturing: \nErica P. Jones\nSenior Curator of African Arts and Manager of Curatorial Affairs\,\nFowler Museum at UCLA \nand \n \nCarlee S. Forbes\nAssociate Curator of African and Oceanic Art\, Baltimore Museum of Art \n\nFriday\, January 30\, 2026\n11:00 a.m. PT\nLivestreaming via Zoom\n\n\n\nAbout the presentation:\nJoin Erica P. Jones\, senior curator of African arts and manager of curatorial affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA\, and Carlee S. Forbes\, associate curator of African and Oceanic art at the Baltimore Museum of Art\, for a lecture on the research and making of “Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts\,” a new exhibition that examines how historical African objects have accrued layered meanings as they moved through different hands\, contexts and interpretations.Following the lecture\, Jones and Forbes will be joined by Glenn Wharton for a conversation on how curatorial and conservation practices intersect in reinterpreting museum collections\, provenance and colonial legacies.\n\n\n\n\nThis event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Jeffrey P. Cunard.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ucla-getty-distinguished-speaker-series-erica-p-jones-carlee-s-forbes-friday-january-30-2026-1100-am-pt/
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SUMMARY:UCLA/Getty Distinguished Speaker Series: Damon Crockett Tuesday\, May 20\, 2025 @ 6:00 PM
DESCRIPTION:Glenn Wharton\nProfessor\, Department of Art History\nLore and Gerald Cunard Chair\,\nUCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage invites you to attend\nUCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series\nfeaturing \nDamon Crockett\nLead Scientist\, Lens Media Lab\nInstitute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage\, Yale University\n\n\nspeaking on\n\n“A.I. and Cultural Heritage Research:\nRisks and the Sins of Omission”\n\nTuesday\, May 20\, 2025\n6:00 p.m. PT\nReception to follow:\nLa Kretz Garden Pavilion\nUCLA Campus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the presentation: \nThe sudden appearance and rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in the past several years has brought about a reckoning over the use of intelligent machines in tasks previously done by humans. Cultural institutions\, which bear a special responsibility to characterize and promote human excellence and ingenuity\, are justifiably apprehensive about delegating important judgments to intelligent machines. In this talk\, Crockett will argue that modern A.I. represents an increasingly faithful expression of human intelligence\, and although there are associated risks\, the risk profile is not what it may seem. The current generation of A.I. models are considerably less risky than their predecessors\, because they are more intelligent\, far easier to steer and none of their power is autonomous: it is derived entirely from contexts of deployment and is fully controllable by humans. Moreover\, LLMs provide fresh opportunities to push toward the hypothetical end goal of cultural heritage research – an inclusive and accurate portrayal of the staggering diversity of human cultural expression.\n\nAbout the speaker:\nDamon Crockett is lead scientist in the Lens Media Lab within the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University. Previously\, he was a postdoctoral associate in Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab\, and has held appointments at the University of Chicago\, UCLA and UC San Diego\, where in 2015 he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science. He has spent the past 10 years applying A.I. to the study of culture\, specializing in computer vision\, data visualization\, unsupervised learning and interpretability. More recently\, his research attention has shifted to the “linguistic turn” in AI and the ways that large language models can be used productively in cultural heritage research.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Jeffrey P. Cunard.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ucla-getty-distinguished-speaker-series-damon-crockett-tuesday-may-20-2025-600-pm/
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SUMMARY:UCLA/Getty Distinguished Speaker Series: Luis A. Muro Ynoñán Friday December 6th @ 11:00 am
DESCRIPTION:Glenn Wharton\nProfessor\, Department of Art History\nLore and Gerald Cunard Chair\,\nUCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\nand\n Erica P. Jones\nSenior Curator of African Arts and Manager of Curatorial Affairs\nFowler Museum at UCLA  invite you to attend\nUCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series\nfeaturing Luis A. Muro Ynoñán \nUnidentified artists\, vessel\, 450-650 CE\, Moche III-IV Style\, Peru; molded ceramic\, pigment; Fowler Museum at UCLA\, Gift of Mr. And Mrs. Herbert Lucas Jr.\, X86.3747\nSpeaking On:\n\n“Taming the Desert: Resilience\, Religion\, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru”  Friday\, December 6\, 2024\n11:00 a.m. PT\nLive streaming via Zoom\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuis A. Muro Ynoñán will discuss the exhibition Taming the Desert: Resilience\, Religion\, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru\, which features Moche and Nasca ceramics and textiles from the collections of LACMA and the Fowler. The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Muro Ynoñán\, UCLA Professor of Art History and Conservation of Material Culture Glenn Wharton\, and Fowler Senior Curator Erica P. Jones about how this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to glimpse two parallel pre-Hispanic modes of artistic expression in dialogue with each other.\n\nLuis A. Muro Ynoñán is a Peruvian anthropological archaeologist and currently an anthropology curator at the Field Museum of Chicago. He holds a Master’s and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has worked on the north coast of Peru for more than 15 years\, focusing on the Moche civilization. His research interests encompass the study of religion\, death\, performance\, social body and space\, as well as absolute dating techniques\, remote sensing techniques\, and archaeometry. He also explores issues of critical heritage\, cultural rights\, and decolonial archaeology in Peru.\n\n\nErica P. Jones is the senior curator of African arts and manager of curatorial affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Since joining the Fowler\, she has curated many exhibitions\, including: Meleko Mokgosi: Bread\, Butter\, and Power (2018); Inheritance: Recent Video Art from Africa (2019); and The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Nigeria and Beyond (2023). Jones serves on the board of African Arts journal and co-chairs the Collaboration\, Collections\, and Restitution Best Practices for North American Museums Holding African Objects Working Group. Her publishing centers on colonial-era provenance and the arts of the CameroonGrassfields.\n\nGlenn Wharton is Professor of art history at UCLA and chair of the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. His publications cover a range of initiatives in the anthropology of public monuments\, artwork identity\, and enhancing sustainability and social justice through conservation intervention. \n\nThis program is co-sponsored by the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ucla-getty-distinguished-speaker-series-luis-a-muro-ynonan-friday-december-6th-1100-am/
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SUMMARY:Julianne Polanco: "Historic Preservation: Relevancy\, Community\, & Resilience in a Changing Climate"
DESCRIPTION:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Julianne Polanco\n\n\nJulianne Polanco\nState Historic Preservation Officer\nCalifornia Office of Historic Preservation\nspeaking on\n\n“Historic Preservation: Relevancy\, Community\,\nand Resilience in a Changing Climate”\n\nThursday\, November 21\, 2024\n6:00 p.m. PT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: Julianne Polanco is a heritage professional with experience at the international to local levels\, focused on building rehabilitation\, historic site stewardship\, cultural heritage\, climate change and public policy.  Her extensive work in the natural resources\, environmental\, and land conservation arenas has been on behalf of a member of Congress\, California Governors\, non-profit organizations\, and the private sector. \nCurrently the California State Historic Preservation Officer\, Julianne oversees preservation laws\, working in collaboration with Tribal nations\, adjacent communities\, federal and state agencies\, and non-governmental organizations\, to steward cultural and historic resources.  She is dedicated to helping ensure that the stories of all communities are present in the rich and beautiful mosaic of our shared history.  A primary focus of her work is on the intersection of cultural heritage and climate action\, raising the voices of communities to help create a just\, low carbon\, resilient future. \nJulianne is a Senior Advisory to Preserving Legacies\, a global initiative aimed to empower every community with the scientific knowledge and technical training to achieve appropriate place and people-based climate adaptation plans.  She is a founding board member and Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Climate Heritage Network and a Fellow of the Urban Land Institute’s Sustainability Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Jeffrey P. Cunard.
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ucla-getty-programs-next-distinguished-speaker-series-feat-julianne-polanco-thursday-november-21st-6-pm/
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SUMMARY:"The Weight of a Patina of Time"
DESCRIPTION:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Gala Porras-Kim\nAbout 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 pasts while charting new possibilities for their present and future. The works on view reflect the artist’s affinity for fragments\, conflicting histories\, undeciphered texts\, and other instances of uncertainty within the space of the museum and conservation lab. They additionally address the challenges of maintaining knowledge over centuries in shifting institutional contexts. \nAbout the speaker:Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984\, Bogotá; lives and works in Los Angeles/London) received an MFA from the California Institute of the Ars in 2009 and an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2012. \n  \n  \nWatch the Recording Here
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/the-weight-of-a-patina-of-time/
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SUMMARY:Identity War in Ukraine: The Power of Cultural Resistance
DESCRIPTION: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. \nUCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series\nfeaturing:\nIhor Poshyvailo\nDirector\, National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes\nand Revolution of Dignity Museum (Maidan Museum) \nAbout the program: The lecture will focus on the full-scale attack of Russia on Ukrainian heritage and on the cultural resistance in times of war. \nAbout the speaker: Ihor Poshyvailo (Kyiv\, Ukraine) ) is a general director of the National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum (Maidan Museum). He is a cultural activist\, ethnologist\, museologist\, cultural manager and art curator.  Dr. Poshyvailo is former chairman of the Museum Council at the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture\, a former Vice-Chair of the ICOM DRMC International Committee on Disaster Resilient Museums. He holds a PhD in History\, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and an international fellow at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center.Description: Almost a year ago Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on all sovereign territory of Ukraine and brutally crossed its border in tanks. Thus\, how a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war started. \n\n\nMuseums\, libraries\, archives and other cultural institutions responded to the threat in accordance with their capacities and military situation. The civilized world launched a “cultural lend-lease” for Ukraine\, providing cultural institutions with packing and restoration materials\, protective and emergency equipment\, hard and cloud storages\, humanitarian and financial assistance. Ukrainian museums\, libraries\, archives\, scientific and art centers\, getting such solidarity and help\, began active rescue operations\, assessing losses and risks\, documenting crimes against culture. \nIn a period of 11 months of the war\, the Russians destroyed or damaged 1\,189 cultural objects in Ukraine\, according to records from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. Tens of thousands of artefacts were stolen from museum and private collections in the occupied regions. The looting of Ukrainian historical\, cultural and artistic values\, the purposeful destruction of museums\, archives\, libraries\, theatres\, cultural centers\, monuments\, and religious buildings is an intentionally planned military and ideological operation of the Kremlin regime. \nWhat should be done for complex processes of stabilization\, early recovery and reconstruction of Ukrainian culture\, an international tribunal against Russian military criminals\, restitution of cultural values and promotion of Ukrainian culture worldwide? As well as for raising awareness of the experience of this war and measures to strengthen the stability of culture in times of crisis? These are the issues to discuss in the lecture. \n\n\nWatch the Recording Here
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/identity-war-in-ukraine-the-power-of-cultural-resistance/
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SUMMARY:Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary
DESCRIPTION:Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary\nRoger Michel\nExecutive Director\, The Institute for Digital Archaeology.\nAbout the program:   \nThe 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 Phidias\, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the marbles is heated and ongoing.Can the creation of exact copies of the originals resolve the repatriation quandary? Roger Michel\, executive director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology\, at the University of Oxford\, believes the repatriation issue can be resolved with the help of 3-D machining. His research team has developed a robot with the ability to create faithful copies of large historical objects. Michel will explore humanity’s connection to culturally significant objects and the emphasis we place on physical possession. Is possession an inherently colonial concept? Are heritage assets particularly susceptible to being exploited for the purposes of historical revisionism? Under what circumstances can copies provide satisfactory substitutes for original material? These questions will be examined against the backdrop of the IDA’s ongoing Elgin repatriation efforts. \nAbout the speaker: \nRoger Michel is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA). The IDA operates globally\, undertaking a huge variety of heritage projects\, many of which are aimed at advancing social justice goals.  Its principal partners are the UN\, UNESCO and local and national governments.  Mr Michel has published and lectured frequently on various heritage conservation topics.  He was a member of the faculty at BU Law School for 25 years\, is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College (Oxford)\, and is co-publisher of Arion Magazine.  Mr Michel is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. \nWatch the Recording Here
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/phidias-unbound-how-robot-generated-replicas-could-solve-the-parthenon-marbles-quandary/
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SUMMARY:The Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judith F. Baca: Looking to the Past and Building the Future
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Dr. Judith F. Baca on the creation\, impact and conservation of the Great Wall of Los Angeles.  \n“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 the stories of those who were disappeared along with the river. How could we recover the memory recorded in the land? This began my years of working with more than 400 youth and hundreds of descendants of the original peoples in the Los Angeles River\, recovering\, through the creation of visual histories\, all that had disappeared. Through our ongoing narrative work\,The Great Wall of Los Angeles\, we are attempting to heal both the river and the people. Currently measuring one half-mile\, [and expanding to a full mile] The Great Wall is an evolving chronology of memory from the land recorded with our hands and paint\, and now flowing along the river where it all began.”- Judith F. Baca. \nOne of America’s leading visual artists\, Dr. Judith F. Baca\, has created public art for four decades. Powerful in size and subject matter\, Baca’s murals bring art to where people live and work. In 1974\, Baca founded the City of Los Angeles’ first mural program\, which produced over 400 murals\, employed thousands of local participants\, and evolved into an arts organization – the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). She continues to serve as SPARC’s artistic director while also employing digital technology in SPARC’s digital mural lab to promote social justice and participatory public arts projects. \nBeginning with the awareness that the land has memory\, Baca creates art shaped by an interactive relationship of history\, people\, and place. Her public artworks focus on revealing and reconciling diverse peoples’ struggles for their rights and affirming the community’s connections to place. Together with the people who live there\, they co-create monumental public art places that become “sites of public memory.” \nIn 2012\, the Los Angeles Unified School District named a school the Judith F. Baca Arts Academy\, located in Watts\, her birthplace. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship\, the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant awarded for the expansion of the Great Wall. \n  \nWatch the Recording Here
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/the-great-wall-of-los-angeles-by-judith-f-baca-looking-to-the-past-and-building-the-future/
LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above
CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Sarah Sutton: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sarah Sutton \nDate: February 4\, 2022. 11:00am \nTitle: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: D(d)iplomacy for Neighbors and Nations \nCultural 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 hold our identities and the collective knowledge we depend upon for well-being. And our traditions have lessons for sustainability and resilience. These are valuable resources for neighbor-to-neighbor and nation-to-nation relationships that underlay the cooperative action necessary for creating a world where everyone and everything may some day thrive. \nPresenter Sarah Sutton will share how those who care about cultural heritage have been taking important steps to protect it and to embed it in climate change response as a core component\, not an add on. Historic structures and retrofitted modern buildings are increasingly efficient\, low-carbon solutions that double as safe spaces for community resilience planning in stable times\, and refuges in disturbed times – if left standing. The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative is a coalition protecting astonishing amounts of land as habitat and a buffer against riverine flooding. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will now include cultural heritage in its reports to the UN. And when President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement\, he named cultural institutions as valuable partners in tackling climate change. Across the US and now as part of United Nations-level discussions\, cultural heritage is critical to domestic and national practices and agreements that create shared solutions. \nBio: \nSarah Sutton is CEO of Environment & Culture Partners (ECP)\, a non-profit accelerating cultural institutions’ leadership in climate action. ECP manages the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative\, a grant program supporting museums’ energy efficiency and clean energy projects\, and an IMLS National Leadership Grant creating energy efficiency tools for museums. Sutton is the Cultural Sector Lead for America is All In supporting the Paris Agreement. She is co-author of The Green Museum and author of Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites & Museums. \nSutton is a Steering Committee member and Climate Change co-chair\, for Held in Trust\, a special program of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute for Conservation that is shaping the future of the preventive conservation profession. Sutton is a member of the American Psychological Association’s Climate Change Task Force\, and was a selected participant in the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Climate Change with the IPCC\, UNESCO\, and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). \n  \nWatch the Recording Here \n  \nPlease submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:\nhnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday\, February 2 at 12:00 p.m.
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ucla-getty-programs-distinguished-speaker-series-featuring-sarah-sutton-cultural-heritage-and-climate-change/
LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above
CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Benin Royal Art and Questions of Restitution
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba\nFrançoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art\nNew Orleans Museum of Art \nFriday\, November 12\, 2021  at 11:00 a.m. PDT \nAbout 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 was seen as an obstacle to trade. A British force of about twelve hundred men supported by several hundred African auxiliaries besieged Benin City. The raid (British Punitive Expedition)\, as the colonial force was called\, bombarded the city and looted five hundred years’ worth of bronze\, brass and ivory sculptures. This was a national treasure that constituted the royal archive of Benin’s history. Oba Ovonramwen (ruled 1888-1914) was deposed and sent to die in exile and the Benin kingdom was incorporated into the colonial nation of Nigeria. Conversation on the repatriation of this cultural patrimony rages on today. Dr. Ezeluona will point to current progress and speak to the important role American cultural institutions are playing in the process. \n  \nView a Recording of the Event Here \n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/benin-royal-art-and-questions-of-restitution/
LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above
CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T110000
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SUMMARY:A Sankofa Moment: Heritage Conservation and Racial Justice at the George Floyd Global Memorial
DESCRIPTION:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series \nJeanelle 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 Floyd’s memorial during the first week of the Minneapolis Uprising as a form of social resistance and self-care. Every day\, the memorial looked different\, and every day\, she and others would tend to both the new and old offerings so that the story could be preserved. \nJeanelle earned a BA in Christian Ministries from Messiah College and an MDiv in Ethics and an MA in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. She consults and speaks nation-wide on various topics as they intersect with race in America. A native resident of Minneapolis\, Jeanelle continues to serve and be supported by the people in her community. \nWith opening remarks by \nDr. Darnell Hunt\nDean\, UCLA Division of Social Sciences\nProfessor of Sociology and African American Studies \nFriday\, June 4\, 2021\n11:00 a.m. – Noon PDT \n  \nWatch the Recording Here \n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/a-sankofa-moment-heritage-conservation-and-racial-justice-at-the-george-floyd-global-memorial/
LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above
CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T110000
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SUMMARY:Ancestors Speaking: Objects and Cultural Sovereignty in Native America
DESCRIPTION:Gabrielle Tayac\nAssociate Professor of Public History\, George Mason University Former Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian with opening remarks by \nDr. Darnell Hunt Dean\, UCLA Division of Social Sciences \nProfessor of Sociology and African American Studies \n  \nAbout the lecture: A family of baskets. A library in a shell. A vow breathing through stone. For diverse indigenous communities across the Americas\, material objects connect to a wider web of cultural relationships. These pieces are part of peoples’ lives\, with essences that may be considered kin through time and space. They merge humans together with each other\, spirit\, and the seen natural world over generations.  Colonialism purposefully and relentlessly unleashed actions to repress and even eradicate indigenous peoples for centuries – along with their beloved objects. Late 20th  century policies shifted to open conditions for Native communities to innovate culture in multiple ways\, including reconnections to ancestral material culture. In this lecture\, Dr. Gabrielle Tayac will share learnings that she’s experienced across the continent with knowledge keepers who know how to amplify their ancestors speaking. \n \nDr. Gabrielle Tayac\, a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation\, is an activist scholar committed to empowering Indigenous perspectives. Gabi earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Harvard University\, and her B.S. in Social Work and American Indian Studies from Cornell University. Her scholarly research focuses on hemispheric American Indian identity\, multiracialism\, indigenous religions\, and social movements\, maintaining a regional specialization in the Chesapeake Bay. Gabi served on the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s staff for 18 years as the museum’s first education director and then as a historian and curator. She engages deeply in community relationships and public discourse with audiences from kindergarten classes to the (Obama) White House. She recently returned from a two year journey to uplift the voices of indigenous elder women leaders and help them preserve their treasured cultural legacies\, sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Gabi is now an Associate Professor of Public History at George Mason University. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/ancestors-speaking-objects-and-cultural-sovereignty-in-native-america/
LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above
CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T110000
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SUMMARY:History\, Memory and Conservation: Preserving the Past for Future Generations
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Glenn Wharton\nChair\, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of\nArchaeological and Ethnographic Materials \ninvites you to attend UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring \nDr. Spencer Crew\n\nActing Director of the National Museum of African American\nHistory and Culture \nspeaking on \nHistory\, Memory and Conservation:\nPreserving the Past for Future Generations \nwith opening remarks by \nDr. Darnell Hunt\nDean\, UCLA Division of Social Sciences\nProfessor of Sociology and African American Studies \nWednesday\, September 30\, 2020\n11:00 a.m. – Noon PDT \nWatch the Recording Here\nAbout the speaker: Dr.  Spencer R. Crew has worked in public history institutions for more than thirty years.  He is currently the Acting Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Click here to read more. \n 
URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/history-memory-and-conservation-preserving-the-past-for-future-generations/
LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above
CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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