2020 Symposium

World Heritage USA 2020 International Symposium and Conference:
U.S. World Heritage and Social Justice in the 21st Century

Day One: Social Justice, Civil Rights & Slavery
November 12, 2020: 1 – 5 pm EST

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Plenary (1 – 1:30 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session
Lonnie G. Bunch III,  Secretary of the Smithsonian InstitutionRobert Stanton, former NPS Director and former ACHP Expert Member (2014-2020)	A conversation between two long-time leaders who have spent their careers engaged in promoting social justice in cultural heritage, the National Parks and society as a whole.
International Examples of Monuments Associated with Oppression (1:40 – 2:40 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session Moderator: Douglas C. Comer, Ph.D., President World Heritage USA
Rebecca Senior	Visual Cultures of British Imperial Monuments
Beatriz Gomes Dias	Slavery Memorial: Raising a Historical Counter-Memory
Leonardo Castriota	Monuments of Oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean
World Heritage Sites and Slavery (2:50 – 3:50 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session Moderator: Hon. William A. Bell, Former Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
Wazi Apoh	“The Slave Trade Passed Through our Palaces”: Reflections Beyond the Forts and Castles of Ghana
Brandon Dillard	Bringing History Forward: Interpreting Legacies at Monticello
Pascall Taruvinga, PhD	Social Memory and Generational Transition; Robben Island World Heritage Site, South Africa
Interpretation of Civil Rights Sites (4 – 5 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session Moderator: Alan Spears, NPCA Senior Director of Cultural Resources, Government Affairs
Judy Ann Forte	Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Joy G. Kinard, Ph.D.	From the Margins to the Center: Interpreting Social Justice in Central Alabama’s Historic Civil Rights Sites of Consciousness as Places of Healing
Sylvia Y. Cyrus	Interpretation of Civil Rights Sites

Day Two: Social Justice and Indigenous Peoples
November 13: 1 – 5 pm EST, 5 – 6:30 PM EST Cocktail Hour / Mixer

Plenary (1 – 1:30 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session
Dorothy FireCloud, NPS Native American Affairs Liaison	Welcoming Indigenous Peoples to their National Park Sites
World Heritage and Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles for Social Justice (1:40 – 2:40 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session Moderator: T. Destry Jarvis, World Heritage USA Trustee, Former NPS Director of External Affairs
Lyn Carranza	Uluru World Heritage Site Co-Management
Jan Balsom	Grand Canyon as Tribal Homelands: Challenges and Opportunities
Jeff Mow	Superintendent at Glacier National Park
Interpreting Indigenous Homeland World Heritage Sites (2:50 – 3:50 pm) Watch Recorded Session Moderator: Tom Cassidy, World Heritage USA Trustee and NTHP Vice President of Government Relations and Policy
Acoma Governor Brian Vallo	The Outstanding Universal Value of Chaco Culture World Heritage Site
Jen Aultman & Chief Glenna Wallace	The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks of Ohio
Ilona Spruce	Director of Tourism for Taos Pueblo
Diversifying & Decolonizing World Heritage (4 – 5 pm EST) Watch Recorded Session Moderator: Professor Ian Lilley, FSA FAHA
Ian Bowman	Bi-Culturalism at World Heritage Sites in New Zealand
Lila Shahani	Rethinking Philippine heritage
Christophe Rivet	Oppression and Reconciliation at Places of Memory in Canada
Ian Lilley	War memorials and Indigenous Australia: subverting the national “statue-scape”
Cocktail Hour/Mixer (5:15 – 6:30 pm EST)
Virtual Networking and post-Symposium discussions in hosted breakout rooms. This session was not recorded. If you would like to follow up about any of the conversations, please email membership@usicomos.org.