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Highlights from the Cotsen Institute's 50th anniversary celebration at the UCLA Faculty Center on March 10, 2024.

Community Archaeology and Conservation in Sudan: The Community Heritage Center at El-Kurru Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis May 12, 2023 Community engagement is now essential to ethical field practice in archaeology and conservation. Although it represents a significant change from traditional fieldwork, working more closely with host communities leads to significantly better and more sustaina...

Archaeology Outside the Box is an examination of archaeology from some surprising and unexpected points of view by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and artists, including subjects as up to the minute as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, homelessness, and migration.The authors strive to present archaeology "outside the box" in which it is usually defined and ...

Decolonizing Material Conservation Practices in an Ethnographic Museum: Where to Start, Which Way Forward? Élénore Kissel Head of Conservation, Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Friday, March 3, 2023 Kissel is doing her research as part of her job in Paris, where she has been head of conservation at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac since 2014. “My own institution recognizes that the re...

Join us in unearthing the secrets of a 5,000-year-old civilization when cities first began to take shape. In northeastern Syria, the Hurrian city of Urkesh had been excavated and studied for twenty-five years before the work was halted by war. Learn how the study of Urkesh has been impacted by plundering and defacing but continues to engage the local community and provide impactful records beyo...

The Loong Conservation Project-conserving the oldest known imperial processional dragon Holly Jones-Amin February 24, 2023 Loong 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...

Alternative Paths for Preserving Material Culture and Bio Culture Heritage Julia M Brennan and Lilian García-Alonso March 10, 2023 As 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 intangibl...

The North American traveling exhibition, The First Kings of Europe, is an unprecedented exhibition about the rise of leadership and social inequality in the prehistoric Balkans and adjacent regions. The exhibition and the associated books, which are being published by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, explore how the Neolithic farming villages of southeastern Europe led to some of th...

Few of the world's premodern polities outside of China achieved the scale or density of urbanism found in the 9th-15th century Angkor empire, which governed a substantial swath of mainland Southeast Asia. Angkorian rulers built cities, water reservoirs, stone monuments, and roads that crisscrossed the empire. Carved images glorify their gods, rulers, and ancestors; inscribed stelae celebrate po...

Study of 16th and 17th century lacquered Luso-Asian artifacts -Uncovering complex dynamics of cross-cultural exchange reflected in their heterogeneous composition Ulrike Körber February 10, 2023 Catholic 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 r...

The Conservation and Curation of African Sacred Objects Case study: Dinkho tsa Badimo (Ancestral ceramic vessels of the Basotho-Batswana of Southern Africa) Mabafokeng Hoeane January 27, 2023 Ceramic 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...

This video is from an online course titled “Collections Care for Tribal Materials” that was given by the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. The course was held for representatives of tribal collections from Native communities from across the US, as well as for non-Native students interested in working with collections and Indigenous communities. The c...

This video is from an online course titled “Collections Care for Tribal Materials” that was given by the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. The course was held for representatives of tribal collections from Native communities from across the US, as well as for non-Native students interested in working with collections and Indigenous communities. The c...

This video is from an online course titled “Collections Care for Tribal Materials” that was given by the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. The course was held for representatives of tribal collections from Native communities from across the US, as well as for non-Native students interested in working with collections and Indigenous communities. The c...

Cataloging and Labeling Practices in Collections Care - UCLA Getty Conservation Program

Divine Consumption - Stephen Dueppen

Paso de la Amada - Richard Lesure

Conservation and Restoration Approaches at the Musical Instrument Museum - Rodrigo Correa-Salas

Archaeology in the Popular Black Press - Justin Dunnavant & Darartu Mulugeta

How to Build a Career and Life in Archaeology

Preserving the Wreck of an Intact 17th-century warship - Malin Sahlstedt

The Joys and Blunders of 25 Years of Work at the 9000 Year Old Town of Çatalhöyük - Ian Hodder

UCLA/Getty Conservation Program

Conservation & Revitalisation of Rajbagh Silk Factory, Srinagar, India - Gurmeet S. Rai

Marija Gimbutas: A Magnificent Vindication

Indigenous Peoples, Iberian Colonists, and Culture Contact - Chris Rodning

Human remains in Tibetan material religion: Conservation as research methodology - Ayesha Fuentes

Ancient Andean Houses: Making, Inhabiting and Studying - Jerry Moore

Spirituality and Diaspora: Considering Yoruba and Kongo Objects in Museums