In this one-day graduate student conference, UCLA students in Professor Susan Slyomovics' Anthropology seminar "Repatriation: The Heritage of the Middle East and North Africa” will engage with case studies of artifacts looted and forcibly removed mainly to Euro-American museums or collections through anthropological missions, colonialism, conquest, and war primarily from the Middle East and North Africa but including comparative cases from other regions.
Participants:
Jesse Blattner (Anthropology)
Greta Degner (Library & Information Science)
Jake Hubbert (Anthropology)
Elisabeth Jahn-Morrissey (Anthropology)
Sally Jebory (Anthropology)
Shoshana Karp (Anthropology)
Nihal Khan (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
Leilani Ortega (Library & Information Science)
Summer Syed (Anthropology)
Conference moderator:
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She researches the visual cultures of the Middle East, including issues of architectural preservation, museums, and cultural heritage. She previously taught at Rice University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the Aga Khan Career Development Professor in architectural history. Her first book, The Image of an Ottoman City: Architecture in Aleppo, received the book Award for urban history from the Society of Architectural Historians. Her second book, The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, published by Stanford University Press in 2019, is the only book to win awards from both the Society for Armenian Studies and the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
This event is open to UCLA faculty and students only.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies