Dr. Christina Maranci and Dr. Heghnar Watenpaugh in conversation with Dr. Susan Pattie

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While our first concern during conflict is always and rightly about human lives, the afterlife of most wars includes the destruction or renaming of the physical and intangible aspects of local culture. Cultural cleansing, the wiping out of traces of earlier people is ongoing in Artsakh, as it happens in similar ways around the globe. Art historians Christina Maranci and Heghnar Watenpaugh discuss the options of preservation, reconstruction, re-imagining the ways in which cultures can continue in a changing world.

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Bios on the speakers:

Christina Maranci, Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts University, has published several books including Art of Armenia: An Introduction (2018) and Medieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation (2001) as well as many articles and chapters on Armenian and Byzantine art.

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is Professor of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Davis. Her specialities include architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, museums and cultural heritage. A fellow of the John Guggenheim Foundation, her books include The Image of an Ottoman City: Architecture in Aleppo (date) and The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice (2019).

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