BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA / Getty Conservation - ECPv6.15.15//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA / Getty Conservation X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA / Getty Conservation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T190000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20250930T045141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T195335Z UID:10000077-1775757600-1775761200@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/b8632237-5409-46cb-8425-a1f5e0272c5d.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20260105T211524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T193317Z UID:10000078-1769770800-1769774400@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/forbes-jones.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20250512T200916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T164129Z UID:10000069-1747764000-1747764000@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/unnamed-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20241108T220359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T221125Z UID:10000064-1733482800-1733486400@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/12.6-muro-e1731103580136.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T190000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20241014T163533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T031533Z UID:10000063-1732212000-1732215600@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/d52b2736-3d9b-4712-ad65-e16680048871.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20230907T224057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T220542Z UID:10000117-1696590000-1696593600@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Porras-Kim-1-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20230302T190104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T221026Z UID:10000116-1680865200-1680868800@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/unnamed1-e1677783807638.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220923T152724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T221352Z UID:10000113-1678446000-1678449600@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Alternative Paths for Preserving Material Culture and Bio Culture Heritage DESCRIPTION:Alternative Paths for Preserving Material Culture and Bio Culture Heritage\nJulia M Brennan and Lilian García-Alonso\nWatch the Recording Here \nAbstract \nAs textile conservators from different backgrounds\, we were drawn together by a common interest and respect for traditional technologies\, materials\, and practices used around the world to care for textile collections. These methods grounded in tangible and intangible knowledge systems have protected textiles for generations. They offer an alternative to the use of toxic chemicals for treating\, cleaning\, and fumigating collections. Our goal is to chronicle\, adapt and share the stories\, methods\, and plant materials\, and help create accessible and safe collection care practices. \nCollaboration is the backbone of the project; we work with students\, colleagues\, and communities in North America and Southeast Asia. The model focuses on people-to-people interaction\, and the exchange of skills and knowledge\, with simple guidelines for research and data gathering. To preserve the bio-cultural heritage\, the plant data is quantified; such as the cleaning of silk and cotton with plant-derived saponins\, extracting and testing the effectiveness of aromatic compounds and hydrolates from endemic plants for pest control. Based on the cultivation and study of some plant specimens\, a self-sustaining production system is being developed through ecological reintegration\, as biocultural heritage.  The findings\, plant data\, recipes\, and methods are shared in workshops and open access publications so that this knowledge can be put into practice. \nThe goal is to build affordable\, safe alternatives for the treatment of cultural heritage in general while nurturing the intangible heritage of traditional practices. This holistic and community-based approach to conservation helps to preserve rapidly disappearing traditional technologies\, and build mutual respect for one another and our biocultural heritage. \n  \nBiographies \nJulia M. Brennan Caring for Textiles has worked in the field of textile conservation since 1985 and is committed to the protection of cultural property. Since 2000\, she has led collections care and conservation initiatives in Bhutan\, Madagascar\, Algeria\, Indonesia\, Laos\, and Thailand\, including the preservation of victims’ clothing in Cambodia and Rwanda. Providing colleagues with sustainable skills is demonstrated in her 2019 project and publication “Our Ancestors Knew Best” quantifying traditional textile preservation methods and materials in Asia. She has a BA from Barnard College and an MA in art crime from The Association for Research in Crimes Against Art. \n  \n  \nLilian García-Alonso\, professor and co-founder of the Traditional Technologies and Sustainability laboratory (ENCRyM)\, tries to generate interest in the rescue and appreciation of biocultural heritage and traditional technologies as sustainable\, ecological\, and necessary options in contemporary restoration. Clinical laboratory technician\, Bachelor in conservation\, master’s in studies of the relationship between artistic productions and society\, and Ph.D. in Mesoamerican Studies. Firmly believes that the exchange of knowledge is an act of generosity. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/alternative-paths-for-preserving-material-culture-and-bio-culture-heritage/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Path-e1663708542172.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220923T152632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T221249Z UID:10000112-1677236400-1677240000@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Loong Conservation Project - conserving the oldest known imperial processional dragon DESCRIPTION:The Loong Conservation Project—conserving the oldest known imperial processional dragon \nDr Holly Jones-Amin \nWatch the Recording Here \nLoong 龍 is recognised as the oldest imperial processional dragon in the world. Made c. 1890\, Loong 龍 is a widely respected living part of the Bendigo community in Australia. His survival is due to over 100 years of consistent care by the Bendigo Chinese community. This talk charts Loong’s 龍 performing life\, his impact on the Bendigo and wider community\, his contribution to cultural sustainability\, his past repairs and recent conservation treatment. The Loong Conservation Project is the first Australian heritage conservation project to capture detailed carbon emissions measurements. The talk details the steps Grimwade conservators took to engage with the Chinese community and other stakeholders to conserve Loong 龍. Conservators and Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation Students utilised methods that actively reduced the carbon emissions of treatment practices and materials during over 1500 hours of treatment. \nBiography \nHolly has worked as a conservator for over 25 years. She is the Principal Conservator and Team Leader of the objects\, textiles and archaeological conservation consultancy program at Grimwade Conservation Services at the University of Melbourne (UoM). In this role\, she straddles research\, teaching\, engagement and commercialisation. \nShe is a foundation lecturer for the University of Melbourne Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation. From 2004 to 2014\, she managed postgraduate coursework programs and lectured and tutored students. From 2015 to the present\, she has taught as an expert in practice\, delivering sessional lectures\, tutoring\, supervising\, and marking minor theses. \nShe holds degrees in Archaeology and Conservation and a PhD in conserving low-fired archaeological ceramics. Holly has worked as a Conservator in the museum setting and archaeological sites in Australia\, Syria\, Singapore\, Papua New Guinea\, Turkey\, Italy and Georgia. She has specialist skills in treating archaeological\, Indigenous and world culture objects. Her research interests include the degradation and stabilisation of porous archaeological ceramics\, how conservation interventions impact future research and how cultural belief systems can be respected in museum settings. \nShe is a CABAH (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) associate investigator. CABAH is undertaking research to safeguard Australia’s national heritage\, transform research culture\, connect with communities and inform policy. The team of academics are from eight Australian universities and several museums in Australia and overseas. As part of the CABAH team\, Holly aims for materials conservation to take a more active role within archaeological projects in Australia and beyond. She is an assistant coordinator for the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) working group for archaeological materials and sites. \nThrough CABAH\, Holly is working with the University of Wollongong to develop conservation workshops for the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area in the Northern Territory. URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/the-loong-conservation-project-conserving-the-oldest-known-imperial-processional-dragon/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Holly-conserving-Loong-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220923T152542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T221504Z UID:10000111-1676026800-1676030400@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Study of 16th and 17th century lacquered Luso-Asian artifacts - Uncovering complex dynamics of cross-cultrual exchange reflected in their heterogeneous composition. DESCRIPTION:Study of 16thand 17thcentury lacquered Luso-Asian artifacts –Uncovering complex dynamics of cross-cultural exchange reflected in their heterogeneous composition\n  \nWatch the Recording Here \n  \nAbstract \nCatholic European presence in 16thand 17thcentury Asia\,under the patronage of the Portuguese Crown\,linked varied ports of South\, Southeast and East Asia via the Luso-Asian networks of maritime trading routes\, commercial ventures\, diplomatic relations\, and missionary work. On various levels resulted manifold circulations that promoted exchange and mutual influences in the scope of European-Asian and inter-regional encounters. Indigenous crafts adapted to foreign tastes and needs\, heterogeneous artifacts and new artistic styles emerged that well illustrate cultural\, religious\, and artistic intermingling promoted by cross-cultural interaction. \nOne result are lacquered Luso-Asian artifacts\, including parade shields\, portable furniture\, as well as religious items.Though variously classified in the past\, their inconsistent characteristics called for deeper examination and inspired multi-disciplinary research. The striking results revise our understanding of the commission and circulation of these artifacts—heterogeneous creations\, combining craft contributions and stylistic influences of multiple cultural spheres. \nSeveral examples of lacquered Luso-Asian religious items ordered and employed all above by the Society of Jesus in their mission in China and elsewhere manifest present craft contributions and stylistic influences from India\, China\,and Japan. Notable are articles that mimic Japanese nanban ornamental schemes but employ Chinese traditional techniques and motifs. To equip their various missions\, the Jesuits\, promoter of various circulations\,commissioned liturgical implements to evangelize local populations\, often taking advantage of the already existing production of devotional items settled around Goa and local lacquer arts of Japan or China\, using the maritime trading routes that linked Lisbon\, Goa\, Macao\,and Nagasaki. Indicating a stylistic confluence within the framework of the Jesuit missions in Asia\, these religious pieces point to the Portuguese base of Macau—the strategic center of Jesuit activities and refuge of many Christians after their expulsion from Japan in the early 17th century. \nIn depth material analysis uncovered not only hints to early modern circulation of people\, raw materials\, spiritual beliefs\, and esthetic conventions that are not decipherable on first sight.By identifying employed materials and layer structures\, it further revealed causes of present states of conservation and degradation patterns standard to simplified lacquer formulations\, reduced layer sequences and hasty production. This information is crucial for appropriate choices of materials and methods to be employed in conservation projects to preserve them. \n  \nBiography \nUlrike Körber\, conservator and integrated researcher at IHA – NOVA FCSH Lisbon\, combines advanced study in art history with previous training as a journeyman cabinetmaker (2002\, Handelskammer Potsdam\, Germany)\, and as a conservator of wooden artifacts and furniture (2008\, FH-Potsdam\, Germany). \nSince her first contacts with Asian lacquer at the José de Figueiredo Laboratory (JFL) in Lisbon in 2006\, she is fascinated by this complex material. Artifacts she encountered during various projects in Lisbon led her to focus on 16th and 17th century Luso-Asian lacquered items manufactured for Catholic European commission\, which feature the transfer and transformation of motifs\, iconography\, materials\, and techniques. Variously classified as Indo-Portuguese\, Nanban\, Singalo-Portuguese\, Chinese or Ryūkyūan (today’s Okinawa)\, the inconsistency with which they fit their assigned categories\, mixed materials and techniques\, exposed pathologies\, and the question of attribution raised curiosity and led to the first collaborative material investigation at the JFL and to her in-depth multidisciplinary PhD research. This received analytical support at the Getty Conservation Institute as part of the RAdICAL international Asian lacquer project. \nHer thesis: The Journey of Artifacts: The Study and Characterization of a Nucleus of Lacquered Luso-Asian Objects from the 16th and 17th Centuries (University of Evora\, 2019) examined a broader group of diverse parade shields\, portable furniture and religious items embellished with East Asian lacquer. By identifying the craft traditions mingled on individual pieces\, it revealed unexpected patterns of circulation. \nA conservator in private practice in Lisbon\, she collaborates with various international institutions. From November 2022 to March 2023\, she is conducting research at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore as a post-doc research fellow. URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/study-of-16th-and-17th-century-lacquered-luso-asian-artifacts-uncovering-complex-dynamics-of-cross-cultrual-exchange-reflected-in-their-heterogeneous-composition/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/work-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220923T152349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T182517Z UID:10000110-1674817200-1674820800@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Conservation and Curation of African Sacred Objects. A Case study: Dinkho tsa Badimo (Ancestral ceramic vessels of the Basotho-Batswana of Southern Africa) DESCRIPTION:The Conservation and Curation of African Sacred Objects: Case study: Dinkho tsa Badimo (Ancestral ceramic vessels of the Basotho-Batswana of Southern Africa)\nMabafokeng Hoeane(She/They)\nPhD candidate\, Heritage Museums Studies\, University of Pretoria\, South Africa \nWatch the Recording Here \nAbstract \nCeramic vessels for centuries have been used across the world by different cultures and groups for various uses. The focus of this talk will be on ceramics created by the Basotho-Batswana group of Southern Africa. Ceramics as cultural heritage objects have been extensively studied by archaeologists and anthropologists with the focus of the literature being on their functions as vessels used for the transportation\, storage\, processing and serving of food\, and through this study of foodstuffs an exploration of past lifeways\, social exchanges and processes. This emphasis however is limited as few studies have engaged with the spiritual use of ceramic vessels in presenting ritual offerings and ceremonial practices. This could be a result of past museum collection practices which misclassified and misidentified these sacred vessels and incorporated them into collections as common household wares. The focus of this talk\, based on published literature\, museum records and interviews with traditional healers seeks to highlight the importance of the use of ancestral ceramic vessels in spiritual practices of Southern African Basotho-Batswana cultural groups. The focal point of the research has been to highlight the significance and importance of recognizing Dinkho tsa Badimoas a separate class of ceramics which in turn requires consideration in curatorial practice which the presenter believes forms part of decolonising African histories and artefacts. \nBiography \nMabafokeng Hoeane is a Healer\, Historian\, Cultural and Heritage Curator and Conservator\, and Alumni University of Pretoria Masters in Tangible Heritage Conservation.Currently\, based in Pretoria\, South Africa.Her work and research interests focus on decolonizing methods used to conserve and curate African sacred/spiritual objects in Museum collections.Her talk will speak on how Museums can care for and steward sacred objects\, and how to build a deeper relationship with originating communities of these objects.She is a researcher at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship\, University of Pretoria and part of the Andrew W. Mellon funded project tittle Entanglement\, Mobility and improvisation: Culture and Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands.She is currently pursuing a PHD in Heritage Museum studies at the University of Pretoria. URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/the-conservation-and-curation-of-african-sacred-objects-a-case-study-dinkho-tsa-badimo-ancestral-ceramic-vessels-of-the-basotho-batswana-of-southern-africa/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG-20200730-WA0028.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220923T151250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T222052Z UID:10000108-1665745200-1665748800@conservation.ucla.edu 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/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/YRslh1hoKrjsiDtoyEJ4reLUYA2MHLhKaI7Yo5p2oulCCL8XKzOg-68Srm2D5vl8vXDPMy6qVD2A5UW62v9Ji-IrQ9Vf1bQLaA6eHJ-1wKk10JMQRdr7qHJ4VRSDY6uZxbFMz-N_t8d722a00xv6tuTERl3Pjgs0-d-e1-ft-e1663702818371.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220329T231046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T222221Z UID:10000095-1651230000-1651233600@conservation.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Judy-Baca-by-Todd-Gray-for-Metro-High-Rez-79912-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Michelle Jacobson":MAILTO:mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210929T220956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T222425Z UID:10000104-1647601200-1647604800@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Conservation and Restoration Approaches at the Musical Instrument Museum DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Correa-Salas\nConservator \nWatch the Recording Here \nThe structure\, materials and acoustic properties of musical instruments are diverse and delicate. These characteristics will determine whether the instrument can be played (on special occasions) or just be displayed in the gallery. \nThe basic knowledge of the different materials (and their combinations) with which they were built\, how they were made\, how they were played and on what occasions they were played offers us a good basis and help to evaluate each instrument and know how to proceed to maintain\, stabilize\, adjust\, restore\, or fix these sound machines. \nBorn in Santiago\, Chile\, Rodrigo Correa Salas comes from a family of artists.Prior to MIM\, Correa worked as a luthier and instrument conservator for nearly two decades in the United States\, Caribbean\,Panama\, and Chile. He was the official luthier of the annual Casals Festival in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, and custodian of Maestro Casals’s violoncello in the Pablo Casals Museum. \nCorrea graduated from Puerto Rico’s Conservatory of Music\, with a bachelor’s degree in music education and a minor in violoncello. He later obtained an associate of science degree in string instrument technology from Indiana University\, while doing parallel studies in cello. He has played in various baroque\, classical\, and popular music groups in the United States and the Caribbean. \nCorrea’s role as conservator is to examine\, document\, restore\,repair\, and maintain musical instruments and other objects in MIM’s collection\, while coordinating closely with the curatorial teamand collaborates in installing gallery exhibitions. URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/conservation-and-restoration-approaches-at-the-musical-instrument-museum/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/musical_instrument-e1633016378526.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="C%C3%A9line Wachsmuth":MAILTO:wachsmuthc@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220218T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210929T220841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T222650Z UID:10000090-1645182000-1645185600@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Preserving the Wreck of an Intact 17th-century warship – the Challenging and Rewarding Conservation Work at the Vasa Museum DESCRIPTION:Malin Sahlstedt\nConservator\, Vasa Museum\, Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums \nWatch the Recording Here \nSince the raising of 17th-century warship Vasa in 1961 after333 years on the seabed of Stockholm harbour\, two generations of preservation staff have had the task to safeguard this mighty piece of maritime cultural heritage for the future\, a task perhaps as monumental as the ship itself. Contrary to what was thought when the Vasa Museum opened in 1990\, namely that the conservation project was finalised and there would be little further need for lab facilities and specialised staff\, the gradual development of acidic precipitates on the surface of the ship over the coming decade signalled on-going degradation processes\,which called for action and wide expertise. Through a number of interdisciplinary research projects\, new knowledge has been built and implemented in museum practice. I will present some of the experiences made and lessons learned over the years\, where the securing and maintaining of broad preservation competence have become increasingly important and likewise challening. \nMalin Sahlstedt studied Conservation of Cultural Property at Gothenburg University and has aMSc in Archaeological Science from Stockholm University (2000). After working in archaeological conservation with the focus on the treatment of waterlogged wood and a research projecton alum-treated archaeological wood at the Swedish National Heritage Board (2002-2009)\,she is currently conservator at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm\, Sweden (2009-present). Here\, in the continuous effort to improve the long-term preservation conditions for 17th-centurywarship Vasa and associated wooden artefacts\, her work is concentrated on testing methods and implementing research results in the museum context. She also worked as a conservator in the research project Saving Oseberg at the Cultural History Museum in Oslo\, Norway (2017-2018)\, investigating the preservation status of and re-treatment options for the alum-treated wooden objects of the Viking Ship Museum collection. URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/preserving-the-wreck-of-an-intact-17th-century-warship-the-challenging-and-rewarding-conservation-work-at-the-vasa-museum/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/17th-c-warship-Vasa-photo-Karolina-Kristensson-the-Vasa-Museum.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="C%C3%A9line Wachsmuth":MAILTO:wachsmuthc@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20220118T190739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T222808Z UID:10000105-1643972400-1643976000@conservation.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/unnamed-6-scaled-e1642532733325.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20211020T212946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T173331Z UID:10000094-1636714800-1636718400@conservation.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ndubuisi_Ezeluombda-scaled-e1634765513973.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210929T220200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T223028Z UID:10000087-1634900400-1634904000@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Conservation & Revitalisation of Rajbagh Silk Factory\, Srinagar\, India – Connecting Memory & Material Culture Towards Building a Future. DESCRIPTION:Gurmeet S Rai\nMs. Director\, CRCI (India) Pvt Ltd \nWatch the Recording Here \nThe 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 in demand across the globe. \nEmbedded in the legacy of silk are also memories of pain. Kashmir has been embroiled in geo politics for decades which has caused much suffering in the valley. Further it was in 2014 that a massive flood hit the valley that devastated many lives and properties. The Rajbagh Silk factory was inundated with flood waters for over four weeks. Not losing hope\, the workers managed to repair about 10 of 150 looms and several preloom machines and work at the factory resumed. \nThe Government is supporting conservation and revitalisation of the factory under a flood recovery program. The conservation plan seeks to use this opportunity as a trigger to conserve the built heritage\, revitalise silk and handicraft based economy using innovation and creativity to enhance lines of communication between artisans and entrepreneurs across the nation and abroad\, thus ushering in opportunities and hope for the artisans in the valley. \nGurmeet S Rai is an architect with specialisation in heritage conservation and management. She is among the first generation conservation architects in India and has undertaken projects across India related to architectural conservation\, management plans for world heritage sites\, urban conservation and development strategies for historic settlements\, sustainable cultural heritage tourism plans\, preparation of advisory and policy documents. Gurmeet was awarded ‘Award of Distinction’ by UNESCO under the Asia Pacific Architectural Heritage Awards in 2002 and 2004 following which she has been on their jury for over 15 years. In 2011\, UNESCO appointed her as the lead consultant for preparation of ‘Cultural Heritage policy for Punjab’. She has also undertaken international assignments in Nepal and Myanmar and has been an advisor to UNESCO in heritage sector in several countries in South East Asia. She is currently a member of the Steering committee of TERRA2022\, World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage (Getty Conservation Institute). URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/conservation-revitalisation-of-rajbagh-silk-factory-srinagar-india-connecting-memory-material-culture-towards-building-a-future/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1-Gurmeet-Rai-e1633015872762.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="C%C3%A9line Wachsmuth":MAILTO:wachsmuthc@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210525T221843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T223121Z UID:10000086-1622804400-1622808000@conservation.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_7657_2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T130000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210514T182028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T224743Z UID:10000103-1622635200-1622638800@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Pizza Talk: Human Remains in Tibetan Material Religion: Conservation as Research Methodology DESCRIPTION:Ayesha Fuentes\nStride Lecturer in Arts Conservation\nNorthumbria University \nWatch the Recording Here \nAyesha 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 project combines the technical examination of objects in museum collections with interviews and observations made across the Himalayan region and investigations of historical sources and cultural narratives. Her research highlights the longevity\, function and value of these ritual instruments within diverse communities. \nAyesha Fuentes\, Stride Lecturer in Arts Conservation at Northumbria University\, is an objects conservator and technical art historian specializing in Asian material heritage. She is a graduate of the UCLA/Getty MA program in Conservation of Ethnographic Materials (2014) and a former employee at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. She recently submitted her doctoral dissertation on the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London\, where she was a Neil Kreitman and Overseas Research Scholar. URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/virtual-pizza-talk-human-remains-in-tibetan-material-religion-conservation-as-research-methodology/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series,Cotsen Pizza Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20180330-WA0030-copy-1-e1632523360958.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Michelle Jacobson":MAILTO:mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T223528Z UID:10000101-1619175600-1619179200@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Authorship and Ownership\, a Conversation Between Glenn Wharton and Artist Andrea Geyer DESCRIPTION:Glenn Wharton\, Andrea Geyer\nFriday April 23rd\, 11:00am – 12:00pm (PT) \n  \nUCLA/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 artist who lives in New York City. Her work focuses on themes of gender\, class\, and national identity. 9 Scripts is a ten-channel\, co-authored video installation that includes interviews about the U.S. invasion of Iraq\, and touches on themes of identity in times of conflict. \n  \nUCLA/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 artist who lives in New York City. Her work focuses on themes of gender\, class\, and national identity. 9 Scriptsis a ten-channel\, co-authored video installation that includes interviews about the U.S. invasion of Iraq\, and touches on themes of identity in times of conflict. \n  \n  \n  \nAndrea Geyer is a multi-disciplinary artist un-sensing the construction and politics of time. Her works use performance and video to activate the lingering potential of specific events\, places\, or biographies as lived in woman identified bodies. She materializes the entanglement of presence and absence of such bodies due to ideologically motivated omissions in archives and memories. Exhibitions include: Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, in New York; IMMA in Dublin; TATE Modern in London; Generali Foundation\, Secession in Vienna; Witte De White in Rotterdam; Sao Paulo Biennal and documenta12/ Kassel. She is represented by Hales Gallery in London/New York\, Galerie Thomas Zander in Cologne. She lives and works in New York. www.andreageyer.info \n  \n  URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/authorship-and-ownership-a-conversation-between-glenn-wharton-and-artist-andrea-geyer/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/9Scripts_Intro-Wall.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McGough":MAILTO:jenmcgough@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T223804Z UID:10000100-1615546800-1615550400@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Conservation of In-Situ and Post-Excavation Glass DESCRIPTION:Stephen Koob\nChief Conservator Emeritus of The Corning Museum of Glass\nFriday March 12th\, 11:00am – 12:00pm (PT) \n \nWatch the Recording Here \nArchaeological 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 tombs. Most glasses in museum and private collections do not have provenances and their place of manufacture or origin is unknown\, or only known by comparison with actual excavated sources. Archaeological glasses can be preserved in many various states. In some cases the glass has not changed at all\, or very little since manufacture\, in other cases the glass may be heavily deteriorated and extremely fragile. Archaeologists\, excavation personnel\, volunteers and conservators who will be responsible for handling glass should be familiar with the proper procedures\, materials and techniques that are used in the lifting\, handling\, packing\, transportation and storage of glass vessels and fragments.Severely deteriorated or “weathered” layers on archaeological glasses are extremely sensitive to touch\, and should be handled as little as possible.In general\, excavated archaeological glasses should be kept dry if found dry;wet\, if found wet (underwater retrieval);or damp\, if found damp;until careful examination is possible and time is available for treatment.Safe retrieval is a priority.Treatment can involve simple cleaning\, or not; consolidation of fragile or lifting surfaces\, and possible reassembly using the adhesive Paraloid B-72. The eventual disposition of an object\, or group of objects\, should be considered before any intervention is carried out whether the object is to be housed in storage\, studied\, published\, or placed on display. Assembled objects also often require a significantly larger storage space (shelving or cabinets) than individual fragments\, which can be bagged or placed in drawers. Restoration beyond this is rarely done in the field\,but may be done in a museum. \nStephen Koob is Chief Conservator Emeritus of The Corning Museum of Glass\, having recently retired from the Museum. Koob holds an MA in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University\, and a B.Sc. in Archaeological Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology\, University of London. Before joining the Corning Museum staff in 1998\, Koob worked for 11 years as conservator\, specializing in ceramics and glass\, at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery\, Smithsonian Institution. A member of numerous professional organizations\, including the Archaeological Institute of America\, Koob is also a Fellow of the International Institute of Conservation and the American Institute for Conservation. He recently replaced Dr. Robert Brill as Chairman of Technical Committee 17\, which studies the Archaeometry and Conservation of Glass\, as part of the International Commission on Glass. He is the author of the book\, Conservation and Care of Glass Objects (2006). He is an expert in dealing with “crizzling\,” a condition that affects unstable glass. In 2014 Koob received the Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). The award is given to an individual who has “a sustained record of excellence in the education and training of conservation professionals.” For decades he has devoted time to training conservation interns at The Corning Museum of Glass\, and he has taught conservation courses around the world. He has worked\, taught and supervised on numerous archaeological sites\, including the Agora in Athens\, Gordion\, Turkey\, and Samothrace\, Greece. \n  URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/conservation-of-in-situ-and-post-excavation-glass/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Stephen-Koob-e1614806646337.png ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McGough":MAILTO:jenmcgough@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T223943Z UID:10000102-1614942000-1614945600@conservation.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tayac_0-1-scaled-e1614796861277.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T123000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T224020Z UID:10000099-1614337200-1614342600@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:A conservator\, architectural historian\, and architect discuss the fate of confederate monuments DESCRIPTION:Katherine Ridgeway\, Dr. Dell Upton\, Burt Pinnock\nFriday February 26th\, 11:00am – 12:30pm (PT) \nConservation and Confederate Monuments preserve and protect what and how \n\nThe 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 to our understanding of history\, cultural values\, and identity and what actions can and should be taken in response. \nThis panel will explore how professionals in the fields of architecture\, conservation\, and history are currently addressing these topics and their visions for the fate of these works. \n  \nKatherine Ridgeway \n\n \n\nKatherine Ridgway has been the State Archaeological Conservator for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) for eight years. In this position\, she has recently provided advice on the conservation and preservation considerations involved when communities and agencies in the Commonwealth are working with Confederate and other contested monuments. She helped to write the DHR Guidance Regarding Confederate Monuments document and participated in the AIC Contested Monument Working Group. \nKatherine is a William and Mary graduate and received her Master’s degree from Durham University in Northern England in the Conservation of Historic Objects. She has over 20 years of conservation experience\, including working as an Assistant Conservator at the Field Museum in Chicago and as the Fine and Decorative Arts Conservator for George Washington’s Mount Vernon. She is also a Fellow in the AIC and the President of the Virginia Conservation Association. \n  \n\nDr. Dell Upton \n \nArchitectural historian Dell Upton is Distinguished Research Professor in the Art History Department at UCLA where he taught for twelve years before retiring in 2020. He previously taught at Berkeley and the University of Virginia. Upton is the author of What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race\, Uplift and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale\, 2015)\, as well as numerous articles about contemporary monument debates in the United States and Italy. Among his other books are American Architecture: A Thematic History (Oxford\, 2019) and Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (Yale\, 2008). During the current academic year\, he is serving as Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Studying the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C. \n  \nBurt Pinnock \n \nFAIA is a principal and chairman of the board at Baskervill\, a 123-year-old design firm. For Burt\, architecture and design isn’t a job; it’s his personal contribution to the wellbeing and vitality of our communities. Over his 30-year career Burt’s commitment and passion has created impactful work for neighborhoods\, cultural institutions and forward-thinking companies\, including the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia\, Civil Rights Memorial Plaza at the Virginia Capitol\, Colbrook Affordable Housing masterplan and more. A founder and board member of the nonprofit Storefront for Community Design\, Burt currently serves as Chairman of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Art and Architectural Review Board and is a board member of the Legal Aid Justice Center\, amongst numerous other board and committee engagements. Burt is a graduate of Virginia Tech and calls Richmond\, Virginia home. \n  URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/a-conservator-architectural-historian-and-architect-discuss-the-fate-of-confederate-monuments/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/conservator-event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McGough":MAILTO:jenmcgough@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T224253Z UID:10000098-1611918000-1611921600@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colleagues\, Communities\, and Conservators: Partnerships towards repatriation and ethical stewardship DESCRIPTION:Lylliam Posadas\nFriday January 29th\, 11:00am – 12:00pm (PT) \n \nConservators 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 collections stewardship. Professional ethics in the conservation field\, as well as technical knowledge and skill sets\, can be a source of support for repatriation and ethical stewardship. Diversity\, equity and inclusion (DEAI) policies and programs are critical in building systems that encourage considerate and conscientious professional practices that can support tribal and community ownership and control of collections.This program will discuss how conservators\, both students and professionals\, can support the repatriation of Indigenous belongings under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). It will also explore how conservators can address concerns beyond NAGPRA that are relevant to the repatriation process and experience and to the training of future generations of conservators. \nLylliam Posadas has experience with repatriation and collaborative and community-driven research within museums\, universities\, and community organizations. She is interested in how institutional policies support the development and sustainability of collaborative research and collections care practices. Lylliam focuses on systemic institutional change in support of repatriation\, collections care and access\, representation and diversity initiatives\, and the use of non-destructive and non-invasive methods of investigating community-driven research questions. She received an MSc in the Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials from University College London and a double BA in Anthropology and Psychology from the University of California\, Los Angeles. Lylliam has participated in field research\, including preservation efforts in Ghana\, Peru\, Louisiana\, and California and also serves on several boards and committees\, including the Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation. Lylliam is also involved in community-driven research\, policy development\, and advocacy in public health which informs her approach to heritage work. \n  URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/colleagues-communities-and-conservators-partnerships-towards-repatriation-and-ethical-stewardship/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LPosadas_Image2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McGough":MAILTO:jenmcgough@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T224209Z UID:10000097-1604055600-1604059200@conservation.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Conservation of the Stone Monuments of Petra: An Ongoing Research Project of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ziad Al-Saad\nPhD\, Professor of cultural heritage conservation and management at the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology Yarmouk University\nFriday October 30th\, 11:00am – 12:00pm (PT)\nRegister here \n \nPetra 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 monuments of outstanding cultural and historical importance\, is in real danger. Over the last decade the process of deterioration of the Petra monuments has dramatically increased. The destruction of the monuments is induced by a combination of natural and human factors. Weathering and erosion caused by environmental agents have caused a lot of severe damage to the monuments. The impact of weathering and eroding factors on the monuments have been exacerbated by natural faults in the rock; infiltration of water and growth of plants in rock fissures. In addition to natural damage\, cultural and socio-economic factors represent a principle threat to the integrity of the site. It is quite obvious that the monuments of Petra need an urgent care. If the deterioration processes are allowed to continue\, this irreplaceable heritage will disappear and tourism\, which centers on these monuments\, will diminish. It is of no doubt that the conservation and preservation of Petra monuments is a very challenging and difficult task. The complexity of the situation is apparent and the efforts needed are tremendous. Different types of preventive and remedial measures are needed to be adopted and executed in order to control the fast growing threats faced by the monuments. Although preventive measures to arrest the principal causes of weathering by adopting certain actions such as repairing the ancient Nabateans hydrological system\, certain remedial steps seem to be inevitable. The fragile monuments are in bad need for consolidation to be able to resist the threat of the natural weathering. This task is the main aim of a research project that has been conducted by the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University in cooperation with the Bavarian State Conservation Laboratories. \n  \nProf. Ziad Al-Saad\, Professor of cultural heritage conservation and management at the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology Yarmouk University; Obtained Ph.D. in conservation and archaeometry from University of London in 1992. He served as Chair of Department of Archaeology in the period 1994-1999 then became the Director of the Insitutue of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University which he managed to transform into a full-fledged faculty in 1999 and became its first Dean for two terms until 2007. He then moved to the newly established German-Jordanian University as Vice President for Academic affairs for two years and led the university strategic planning and quality assurance programs for two years. In 2010 he returned to Yarmouk University as Vice President for Research and International Affairs. He was then appointed by the Cabinet as Director General of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan until the end of 2011 when he returned to Yarmouk University.Prof. Al-Saad’s research interest generally is in the areas of conservation and scientific analysis of archaeological materials with a particular interest in the conservation and stabilization of archaeological finds especially metallic artifacts and stone monuments. Has been actively involved in the preservation and conservation of spectacular stone-carved monuments of the Nabatean city of Petra. \n  URL:https://conservation.ucla.edu/event/conservation-of-the-stone-monuments-of-petra-an-ongoing-research-project-of-the-faculty-of-archaeology-and-anthropology-at-yarmouk-university/ LOCATION:To Watch the Recording Please Click The Lecture Title Above CATEGORIES:Conservation Conversation Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Conservation-of-monument-825_0.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer McGough":MAILTO:jenmcgough@g.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T120000 DTSTAMP:20260709T080014 CREATED:20210212T003235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T224517Z UID:10000096-1601463600-1601467200@conservation.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://conservation.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Dr-Spencer-Crew.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR