Boshell Lecture Series: Modern Deconstructions & Reconstructions of Nimrud | the Walters Art Museum скачать в хорошем качестве

Boshell Lecture Series: Modern Deconstructions & Reconstructions of Nimrud | the Walters Art Museum

The Neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in Iraq has suffered grievously in modern times, particularly during the 2015 campaign of destruction at the ruins waged by the Islamic State. Contemporary reconstructions in museum contexts give new life and new meaning to the ancient remains. Watch this conversation between Katharyn Hanson, an archaeologist specializing in preservation of the cultural heritage of Syria and Iraq, and Kiersten Neumann, curator at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, about issues of cultural preservation and how these missing or destroyed works have inspired artists and curators today. About the Guest Speakers: Katharyn Hanson, Ph.D., is a Smithsonian Secretary's Scholar and a Cultural Heritage Preservation Scholar at the Museum Conservation Institute. She works as an archaeologist specializing in the protection of cultural heritage. Dr. Hanson received her doctorate from the University of Chicago with a dissertation entitled: Considerations of Cultural Heritage: Threats to Mesopotamian Archaeological Sites. Previously she held a visiting research position with the Geospatial Technologies Team at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and MCI. She directs archaeological site preservation training at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage in Erbil, Iraq and serves on the Board of The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII). She has been involved in various archaeological fieldwork projects for over 25 years and has curated museum exhibits and published on damage to ancient sites in Iraq and Syria. Her research combines field archaeology, remote sensing, and cultural heritage protection methodology and policy with on-the-ground action to protect culture. Dr. Kiersten Neumann is Curator at the Oriental Institute Museum, as well as an Oriental Institute Research Associate and Lecturer on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and was awarded The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq Donny George Youkhana Dissertation Prize for the best U.S. doctoral dissertation on ancient Iraq. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East (2022) and has published numerous articles on sensory experience, ritualized practice, and material culture of the first millennium BCE, as well as museum practice, collecting histories, and the reception of Assyrian and Achaemenid art. At the OI Museum, Kiersten has curated such exhibitions as Persepolis: Images of an Empire (2015), Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings, (2022), and Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI (2022-2023), in addition to the museum's permanent galleries as part of a complete renovation (2019). This program is one of two lectures generously funded each year by the Boshell Foundation. This program was originally recorded on November 20, 2022. Visit our website: www.TheWalters.org Visit our art site: www.Art.TheWalters.org Support us at: www.TheWalters.org/Support