Preservation Lecture Series

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M.S. Historic Preservation

Preservation Lecture Series

This series brings together leading practitioners to speak about today’s most pressing issues in the field of historic preservation. Subscribe to our playlist on YouTube and follow the Historic Preservation Podcast on SoundCloud to listen to conversations with some of the invited guests.

Spring 2021

More information about the upcoming virtual lectures listed below, including registration links, will be posted soon. All talks are free and open to the public.

January 22, 2021
4:10pm

Reconstructing Black Worlds: Counternarrative Creation as Preservation Practice
Dr. Andrea Roberts

Learn more and register to attend here.

Jan. 28, 2021
6:30pm

Deconstructing ‘Collective Memory’ in Public Spaces
Shelby Green

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Feb. 15, 2021
6:30pm

AI and the Art of Culinary Presentation: Gastronomic Algorithms between Alain Passard and Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Emily L. Spratt

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Mar. 11, 2021
6:30pm

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Gretchen Sorin

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Mar. 25, 2021
1:00pm-2:00pm

POSTPONED
Kiruna Forever: Relocating a City in Territories of Extraction
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco

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Apr. 1, 2021
6:30pm

POSTPONED
An Archaeology of Architecture: The Harlem and Pine Street African Burial Grounds Jerome Haferd

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Apr. 8, 2021
1:00pm-2:00pm

Good pollution: Smells in museums
Matija Strlič

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Apr. 15, 2021
6:30pm

Concrete heritage: beleaguered, besieged, beloved, conserved
Susan Macdonald

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Spring 2021 Preservation Lecture Series

Matija Strlič
April 8, 2021

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Fall 2020

The Fall 2020 Preservation Lecture Series featured Sarah Healey-Dilkes, Richard Southwick, Katie McLaughlin Friddle, Pavla Melková, Marisa Brown, Brent Leggs, and Debra Laefer.

Preservation’s Existential Crisis

Marisa Brown

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Preservation’s Existential Crisis

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How to Bring a Monument to Speech

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preserveokc: Oklahoma City’s Historic Preservation Plan

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Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center: An Adaptive Reuse Case Study

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An engineered iteration of the Trajan’s Column

Fall 2020 Lecture List

Dec. 3, 2020

An engineered iteration of the Trajan’s Column
Sarah Healey-Dilkes

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Nov. 19, 2020

Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center: An Adaptive Reuse Case Study
Richard Southwick

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Nov. 12, 2020

preserveokc: Oklahoma City’s Historic Preservation Plan
Katie McLaughlin Friddle

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Oct. 29, 2020

How to Bring a Monument to Speech
Pavla Melková

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Oct. 15, 2020

Preservation’s Existential Crisis
Marisa Brown

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Oct. 9, 2020

Out of Culture and Preservation, a Racial and Economic Justice Movement
Brent Leggs

Master Class Lecture hosted in conjunction with NCPE; learn more here. Please note that this event was not recorded.

Sept. 17, 2020

Historic Preservation through Advanced Remote Sensing Capabilities
Debra Laefer

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Spring 2020

The Spring 2020 Preservation Lecture Series featured Özgün Özçakır; Rob Thomson; Laurajane Smith; and Björn Ehrlemark and Carin Kallenberg. Conversations with some of these guests are featured on the Historic Preservation Podcast Season 2.

Historic Preservation Podcast #22: Rob Thomson on the Presidio

Listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Rob Thomson.

Historic Preservation Podcast #21: Laurajane Smith on Weaponized Nostalgia

Listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Laurajane Smith.

Historic Preservation Podcast #20: Björn Ehrlemark and Carin Kallenberg

Listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Björn Ehrlemark and Carin Kallenberg.

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Spring 2020 Lecture List

Mar. 12, 2020

Sustainability and Cultural Heritage
Özgün Özçakır

Learn more here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Mar. 5, 2020

From Post to Park: Innovation and Preservation at the Presidio of San Francisco
Rob Thomson

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Rob Thomson here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Feb. 27, 2020

Weaponized Nostalgia: Heritage, Populism and Recognition
Laurajane Smith

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Laurajane Smith here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

February 2, 2020

Architecture in Character – the Unintentional Portrait of a Lost Building
Björn Ehrlemark and Carin Kallenberg

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Björn Ehrlemark and Carin Kallenberg here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 Preservation Lecture Series featured Ana Lucia Gonzalez Ibañez; Doron Bauer; Mary Woods; Brinda Somaya and Nandini Somaya Sampat; Ciere Boatright; Tim Gleason; Priscilla Cooper and Georgette Norman; and Teresa Stoppani.

India’s Single-Screen Cinemas Reimagined and Repurposed

Mary Woods

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India’s Single-Screen Cinemas Reimagined and Repurposed

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Restoring Hope: The Restoration of the Bob & Dolores Hope House in Palm Springs, CA

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Past, Present and Future: Our Civil Rights Legacy and Community Revitalization

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Unorthodox: Architecture as Paradigm

Fall 2019 Lecture List

Nov. 21, 2019

Looking for New Languages: Contemporary Jewelry and Cultural Preservation
Ana Lucia Gonzalez Ibañez

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Ana Lucia Gonzalez Ibañez here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Nov. 14, 2019

Restoration: Cracking the Genetic Code of an Ideology
Doron Bauer

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Doron Bauer here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Nov. 7, 2019

India’s Single-Screen Cinemas
Mary Woods

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Oct. 29, 2019

Two by Two
Brinda Somaya & Nandini Somaya Sampat

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Brinda Somaya and Nandini Somaya Sampat here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Oct. 24, 2019

Honoring History While Building for the Future
Ciere Boatright

Learn more and listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Ciere Boatright here. Please note that this lecture was not recorded.

Oct. 3, 2019

Restoring Hope: The Restoration of the Bob & Dolores Hope House in Palm Springs, CA
Tim Gleason

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Sept. 30, 2019

Past, Present and Future: Our Civil Rights Legacy and Community Revitalization
Priscilla Cooper & Georgette Norman

Learn more and watch the full video here.

Sept. 26, 2019

Unorthodox: Architecture as Paradigm
Teresa Stoppani

Learn more, listen to a Historic Preservation Podcast with Teresa Stoppani, and watch the full video here.

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