[Tlc] Lectures on Cambodia at the Freer Gallery of Art 16 June

[Cort, Louise]

Dear colleagues,

 

I'd like to remind you about a pair of lectures relating to archaeology
and cultural preservation in Cambodia that will take place in the Meyer
Auditorium at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, tomorrow
afternoon, 2-4 PM. These should be excellent presentations by engaged
and dynamic young archaeologists.

 

Louise Cort

Curator for Ceramics

Freer + Sackler, Smithsonian

 

 

CAMBODIA PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

 

Tuesday June 16. 2 PM. Meyer Auditorium

 

PRODUCING ANGKOR: The Material, Spatial and Cultural Generation of the
Khmer Empire 

 

Mitch Hendrickson, University of Sydney

 

KEEPING WATCH: The Role of Heritage Watch in Protecting Cambodia's
Cultural Legacy

 

Dougald O'Reilly, Yale University

 

Two archaeologists share new research on Cambodia's past and efforts to
protect and preserve the record of the past. Mitch Hendrickson explains
how production of objects (ceramics, iron), landscapes (roads and
settlements) and identity (both cultural and archaeological) offers
critical new insight into how and why the Khmer Empire developed,
expanded and ultimately collapsed. Dougald O'Reilly describes how, in
response to a crisis of looting at historic and prehistoric sites, the
international non-profit Heritage Watch was founded to slow the
destruction. 

 

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