Heritage and Justice: A Global Perspective – UIC Panel Discussion
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A recent panel discussion on “Heritage and Justice: A Global Perspective” was held at the UIC Richard J. Daley Library. This discussion was part of a rare visit from the U.S. Department of State Cultural Property Advisory Committee from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). This was the advisory committee’s first meeting outside D.C. in three decades. The event was hosted by UIC and the U.S. Department of State and presented by UIC Institute for the Humanities.
The panel explored government, NGO, and academic work on the safeguarding and preservation of cultural heritage, and the importance of engaging with world communities to combat threats such as antiquities trafficking, networks of looting, war, migration, mining and extraction, and climate change.
Opening Remarks were made by Rafik Mansour, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Policy, ECA. The panel moderator was Ömür Harmanşah, Director of the UIC School of Art & Art History.
Panel members from the Department of State were Alexandra Jones, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Archaeology in the Community and Chair of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee; and Allison Davis, Lead Foreign Affairs Analyst, Cultural Heritage Center, ECA.
Representing UIC were Rosa Cabrera, Executive Director of the Rafael Cintrón Ortiz, Latino Cultural Center, and Adjunct Faculty in the UIC Department of Anthropology, Graduate College, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Museum & Exhibition Studies; and Zack Martin, UIC PhD student in Art History.