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Conservation & Revitalisation of Rajbagh Silk Factory, Srinagar, India – Connecting Memory & Material Culture Towards Building a Future.

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Gurmeet S Rai Ms. Director, CRCI (India) Pvt Ltd Watch the Recording Here The Rajbagh Silk factory is a strand of the cultural legacy of Kashmir. Silk from Kashmir finds references in ancient, medieval and modern period narratives. In the 19th-20thC the bivoltine silk and crafts such as pashmina shawls from the valley were much […]

A Sankofa Moment: Heritage Conservation and Racial Justice at the George Floyd Global Memorial

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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 […]

Virtual Pizza Talk: Human Remains in Tibetan Material Religion: Conservation as Research Methodology

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Ayesha Fuentes Stride Lecturer in Arts Conservation Northumbria University Watch the Recording Here Ayesha Fuentes will discuss Tibetan and Himalayan religious use of ritual objects made with human skulls and femurs. Fuentes incorporates conservation methods, documentation, and interpretation of the material knowledge and techniques used to select, prepare, activate, maintain and exchange these objects. This […]

Comparing Conservation Between Countries

Tessa de Alarcon, Grace Jan, Almoatz-bellah Elshahawi Friday May 21st, 11:00am - 12:30pm (PT) Register here Tessa de Alarcon How working in the US and Guatemala has Influenced the Way I Think About Conservation I will briefly discuss my experiences working in Guatemala as compared to working in the United States and reflect on how those experiences have impacted the […]

Spirituality and Diaspora: Considering Yoruba and Kongo Objects in Museums

A conversation between Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz and José Bedia, Moderated by Manuel Jordán May 18th, 10am - 11am PST Register here This program follows an exciting interdisciplinary seminar on African Objects in Museums, where students examined a series of objects including painted Yoruba drums and Kongo minkisi. To continue discussions, the Fowler Museum, the Cotsen Institute of […]

Authorship and Ownership, a Conversation Between Glenn Wharton and Artist Andrea Geyer

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Glenn Wharton, Andrea Geyer Friday April 23rd, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT)   UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Chair Glenn Wharton will interview artist Andrea Geyer about the conservation and display of 9 Scripts for a Nation at War, a work that was acquired by MoMA when Wharton served as the museum’s Media Conservator. Geyer is a German-born multi-disciplinary […]

Share the Mic: Decolonizing an African Museum

Join museum professionals for a conversation about how conservation practices can serve as one of many strategies for decolonizing museums. RSVP on Eventbrite to receive the link. The Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda, financed by Belgium in the late 1980s as a symbol of cooperation with Rwanda, houses one of Africa’s most significant ethnographic collections. The […]

Conservation of In-Situ and Post-Excavation Glass

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Stephen Koob Chief Conservator Emeritus of The Corning Museum of Glass Friday March 12th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Watch the Recording Here Archaeological glass encompasses glass that has been buried, either in the ground or in fresh or salt water. In some cases glass was intentionally buried as grave gifts and can be found in archaeological cemeteries or […]

Ancestors Speaking: Objects and Cultural Sovereignty in Native America

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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 […]

A conservator, architectural historian, and architect discuss the fate of confederate monuments

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Katherine Ridgeway, Dr. Dell Upton, Burt Pinnock Friday February 26th, 11:00am - 12:30pm (PT) Conservation and Confederate Monuments preserve and protect what and how The question of how Americans should address public monuments to the Confederacy, problematic symbols of white supremacy, received significant re-examination in the summer of 2020, sparking fresh discourse on how these monuments contribute […]

Colleagues, Communities, and Conservators: Partnerships towards repatriation and ethical stewardship

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Lylliam Posadas Friday January 29th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Conservators can play a significant role in the repatriation process and in addressing concerns in the care of sensitive collections. Conservators and repatriation staff can work together with tribal and community representatives to address some of the unjust histories of museum acquisitions and develop new approaches for […]

Conservation of Functional Objects: Horological Conservation

Brittany Cox Horological Conservator, Memoria Technica Friday December 18th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Register here In conservation there is always the question of tangible versus intangible qualities. Is one more important than the other? Should form follow function, or function follow form? If a functional object is beautifully presented and preserved, but doesn’t actually work, is it successful? The conservation of […]

Getty Conservation Institute Field Projects: 3 cases: Tutankhamun, Mosaikon, Peru

Jeanne Marie Teutonico Associate Director, Strategy and Special Initiatives Getty Conservation InstituteFriday November 20th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Please note, this talk will not be recorded. Register here The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) is best described as a private, international research organization that is part of a larger philanthropic enterprise dedicated to the understanding, conservation and enjoyment of the visual […]

Conservation of the Stone Monuments of Petra: An Ongoing Research Project of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University

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Dr. Ziad Al-Saad PhD, Professor of cultural heritage conservation and management at the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology Yarmouk University Friday October 30th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Register here Petra has been classified as being of World Heritage standards and is included on the world heritage list.The entire site of Petra, with its 2000 listed rock-carved […]

History, Memory and Conservation: Preserving the Past for Future Generations

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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 […]

THE PROMISE OF “VIRTUAL UNWRAPPING” – READING THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY

California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium

The UCLA/Getty Conservation Program presents “The man who can read the unreadable,” computer scientist and professor W. Brent Seales, the first speaker in the 50th Anniversary Lecture Series. Currently a Getty Conservation Institute Scholar, Seales and his team have been key to revealing texts on papyri that are too fragile to unroll, such as Homers […]

ANAGPIC 2019

J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center and Villa)

Annual meeting of the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program

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