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CONTESTED CULTURAL HERITAGE:

RELIGION AND NATIONALISM IN A GLOBAL WORLD


A conference organized by the

Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices and Spurlock Museum

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


venue: Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory, Urbana)


Thursday night, April 24, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE LECTURE by George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor

DR. Donny George YOUKHANNA (former Director, Iraq Museum and President, Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage; visiting professor at SUNY-Stonybrook) (former Director, Iraq Museum and President, Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage; visiting professor at SUNY-Stonybrook)

“MAYHEM IN MESOPOTAMIA: The Interplay of Religion, Nationalism, and Global Politics in Iraq’s Cultural Heritage”

Friday, April 25, 2008

9:00-9:15 a.m.


Welcome by Dr. Wayne Pitard (Director, Spurlock Museum)

Opening Remarks on the Conference Topic: Helaine Silverman (Co-Director of CHAMP)


MORNING SESSION: RELIGION ON THE LANDSCAPE

Moderator: David Prochaska (Department of History, UIUC)


9:15-10:00 a.m.

D. Fairchild Ruggles (Department of Landscape Architecture, CHAMP)

Claiming Space: Christian and Muslim Stakes in the Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain


10:00-10:45

Michael Galaty (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Millsaps College)

Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans


10:45-11:00 a.m. BREAK


11:00 a.m.-11:45 p.m.

Alexandra Hartnett (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)

The Painted Walls of Belfast: Aestheticized Geographies of Conflict in Northern Ireland

11:45-12:30 p.m.

Dorothy Lippert (Repatriation Office, National Museum of Natural History-Smithsonian)

Reunification of Spirit and Matter: The Split Personality of American Indian Museum Collections and the Use of Repatriation as a Healing Technique


12:30-2:00 p.m. LUNCH AT LEVIS FACULTY CENTER FOR THOSE REGISTERED


AFTERNOON SESSION: NATIONALISM IN THE MUSEUM

Moderator: Eric Hostetter (Program in Art History & Classics Dept., UIUC)


2:00-2:45 p.m.

Salima Ikram (American University, Cairo, Egypt)

Pharaohs and Foreigners: Using the Past to Promote Egyptian Economy and Nationalism


2:45-3:30 p.m.

Vicky Kynourgiopoulou (American University, Rome)

National Identity Interrupted: The Looting of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek Claim for Repatriation.


3:30-3:45 p.m. BREAK


3:45-4:30 p.m.

Jalh Dulanto (Programa de Arqueología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Colgate University)

The Spoils of Machu Picchu: The Nation of Peru vs Yale University


4:30-5:15 p.m.

F. Kent Reilly (Director of the Center for the Study of Arts and Symbolism of Ancient America, Texas State University, San Marcos)

Ancient Objects, Sacred Realms, and Social Responsibility

5:15-5:45 p.m.: PANEL DISCUSSION


5:45 p.m. Closing remarks


6:00-7:00 p.m. RECEPTION


THANK YOU!

Dr. George's lecture is supported by the Center for Advanced Study/Miller Committee with additional funds from: Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, ATAM, Center for Global Studies, Center on South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Law, Geography, History, International Programs and Studies, IPRH "Museums Writ Large" Reading Group, Krannert Art Museum, Landscape Architecture, Program for the Study of Religion, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning.

The conference has received generous support from the Office of the Provost and Spurlock Museum, with additional funds from the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center

Websites:
http://www.spurlock.uiuc.edu
http://www.champ.uiuc.edu
http://www.ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/champ

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