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Speaker: Sarah Sutton
Date: February 4, 2022. 11:00am
Title: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: D(d)iplomacy for Neighbors and Nations
Cultural heritage has been undervalued as a community and national resource in addressing climate change. Historic landscapes are critical waterline buffers and biodiversity habitats. Structures are refuges and examples of resilient construction. Human-made objects and art 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.
Presenter 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.
Bio:
Sarah 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.
Sutton 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).
Please submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday, February 2 at 12:00 p.m.
Contact
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Miguel Guzmán Juárez
Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Ricardo de Palma
Registration Link: http://tinyurl.com/AndArchTalkMG
Note: This talk will be delivered in Spanish.
Sponsors: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Latin American Institute
Contact Rachel Schloss & Syon Vasquez
Email rachelschloss@g.ucla.edu & syon@g.ucla.edu
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Leo Garofalo
Department of History, Connecticut College
A discussion of how to study the social history of ethnic groups viewed as marginal in the colonial Andean cities of the 16th and 17th centuries. Studies cases of: indigenous migrants to cities like Lima and Cuzco, including those from Central America and Chile; African and African descendants, including Afro-Iberians, in both cities and present in rural areas production; and people arriving to Peru from in early trans-Pacific diaspora. These constitute three challenging cases for historical study, requiring extra work to detect their traces in the archives and other period sources.
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/AWGTalk
Contact Alba Menéndez Pereda & Elyse Brusher
Email albamenendez@ucla.edu & ebrusher@ucla.edu
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Wafa Ghnaim
Embroidery in the Holy Land has existed for centuries, showcased in the decorated garments created and
worn by Palestinian women for generations, as well as documented by the many international visitors who travelled to Palestine for pilgrimage or tourism. By the mid-nineteenth century, each region of historic Palestine had developed their own distinct styles, through variation of fabric, thread color, motif, and ensemble. Some cities, such as Bethlehem, Ramallah, Yaffa and Gaza, became famous for their unique ensembles, however there are dozens of villager and bedouin styles that exist across historic Palestine. Each style and regional variation speak a language of their own, transformed by the political, economic and social events that occurred at the turn of the century and continue to be cherished by Palestinians today.
Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian-American artist, researcher, writer, educator, and businesswoman who began learning Palestinian embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, when she was two years old. Her first book, “Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora” (2018), documents the traditional patterns passed to her by her mother. Wafa has since become a leading educator in the field as the first-ever Palestinian embroidery instructor at the Smithsonian Museum, and an artist-in-residence at the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C. In addition to her extensive scholarship, Wafa continues her mother’s educational legacy through Tatreez & Tea, a global arts education initiative she began in 2016. Wafa has been featured in major media outlets, most recently in Vogue Magazine, naming her and her mother “the world’s leading guardians of tatreez”. Wafa currently resides in Washington, D.C. To learn more about the Tatreez & Tea project, go to www.tatreezandtea.com or follow on Instagram @tatreezandtea.
Photograph/Headshot Credit: Carlos Khalil Guzman, 2020
Contact Céline Wachsmuth
Email wachsmuthc@g.ucla.edu
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Over Zoom
Mentor-led workshop on a particular method (Carly Pope on ceramic analysis)
Contact Carly Pope
Email 3m2pope@ucla.edu
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Sven Haakanson
Ph.D., Curator, Burke Museum
Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Washington
Over the past three decades, in collaboration with my community from Kodiak, Alaska, I have researched
museum collections from around the world to learn about and return the embodied knowledge of our cultural history. From masks, clothing, baskets to boats we have systematically taken knowledge that was taken out and brought it back to our communities to use once again. The angyaaq (open boat) from our region was set aside in the 1800’s after contact with Europeans, but thanks to collections we were able to learn about this vessel and reverse engineer the models in order to build a full size angyaaq at the Akhiok Kids Camp in 2016.
Sven Haakanson is Sugpiaq from Old Harbor, Alaska. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2007), the Museums Alaska Award for Excellence (2008), the ATALM Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Leadership Award (2012), and his work on the Angyaaq led it to be inducted into the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame (2020). He joined the University of Washington in 2013. He engages communities in cultural revitalization using material reconstruction as a form of scholarship and teaching. His projects have included the reconstruction of full-sized angyaaq boats from archaeological models, as well as halibut hooks, masks, paddles, and traditional processing of bear gut into waterproof material for clothing. He has and continues to collaborate with the community of Akhiok at their Akhiok Kids camp since 2000.
Contact Céline Wachsmuth
Email wachsmuthc@g.ucla.edu
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Sreekumar Menon
Paintings Conservator, (Partner) Art Conservation Solutions
Wall paintings in Ladakh, the earliest specimens of which date from the eleventh century, mirror the
development of Buddhism and Buddhist Art in the region.The materials and technique of these paintings,and their iconographic schemes, are complex and have transformed overtime. Many of these paintings have undergone damages due to various intrinsic and or extrinsic factors. Their conservation is a challenge, especially when they are housed in structures that are still being used by the religious community. A wholistic study of these paintings is vital to better-understand their original technologies, and prevent the inadvertent loss of original materials during conservation interventions.
This talk intends to discuss the painting technique of the early period wall paintings of Ladakh, their significance, and ethical issues involved while dealing with their conservation.
Sreekumar Menon is a paintings conservator based in India. He did his Master’s in art conservation from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi before undertaking internships in paintings conservation at the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage(INTACH), New Delhi, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge and Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg(SRAL), The Netherlands. He is currently his completing PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
As a partner inthe firm Art Conservation Solutions, Sreekumar has managed and executed various conservation projects in India. He also worked with the Courtauld Institute of Art in wall painting conservation projects in India and Bhutanand has been a programme manager of the Leon Levy Foundation Centre for Conservation Studies at Nagaur, India from 2015-2019.
Sreekumar is a fellow of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)and a guest lecturer to leading conservation programmes in India.
Contact Céline Wachsmuth
Email wachsmuthc@g.ucla.edu
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Dr. Glenn Wharton
Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
invites you to attend
UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series
featuring
Dr. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art
New Orleans Museum of Art
Friday, November 12, 2021 at 11:00am PDT
Live streaming via Zoom
Instructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration
has been confirmed.
Please submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday, November 10 at 12:00 p.m.
About the program: Dr. Ezeluoma will discuss the restitution of Benin cultural patrimony. In 1897, the British government acted on a request from the Royal Niger Company to remove the Benin Oba (king), who 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.
Contact
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The Teen Friends of Archaeology is excited to invite you to a lecture on the extensive site of Çatalhöyük by Dr. Ian Hodder:
The joys and blunders of 25 years of work at the 9000 year-old town of Çatalhöyük
Register at https://bit.ly/3BBWF0N
Ian Hodder is the Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford, and Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center. He previously taught in the Cambridge Archaeology department. Professor Hodder has also been conducting the excavation of the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey since 1993. He is a well-published author who is known for his numerous books and papers on a wide variety of archaeological subjects.
Photos by Jason Quinlan, courtesy of the Çatalhöyük Research Project.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
Email mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu
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