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PennCHC is a research, outreach, and educational center at University of Pennsylvania that develops and supports community-based cultural heritage initiatives.
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The Penn Museum's new blog #PennMuseumVoices spotlights our recent programming with HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab, AFI, and Smithsonian|CRI around preserving cultural heritage in conflict zones like #Ukraine. Get a glimpse into our work together: penn.museum/blog/safeguard…


The Hryhorii Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum in Ukraine was damaged by shelling in 2022. Read our new report on this damage with research partners Smithsonian|CRI, HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab, CIDCM @GVPTUMD, and Virginia Museum of Natural History: bit.ly/3WoZLRf

🔵 On August 7th, the "Traditions of the Didi Liakhvi Valley - Village Kekhvi" exhibition opened in Gori, showcasing Kekhvi's cultural heritage before and after the 2008 war. The event highlighted research on the Tskhinvali region's intangible heritage. Supported by U.S. Embassy Tbilisi.


Our exhibit “Village Kekhvi" with Blue Shield Georgia and Artistic Freedom Initiative opened in August with support from U.S. Embassy Tbilisi, sharing research on the Didi Liakhvi Valley's intangible heritage before and after the Russo-Georgian War and highlighting the region's incredible culture and people.


Our exhibit with Blue Shield Georgia and Artistic Freedom Initiative is traveling across Georgia, highlighting stories from the village of Kekhvi, occupied by Russia's forces since 2008. It's important for these traditions and memories to be shared 👏

Please join us @PennMuseum or Zoom on 9/20 for the Kolb Colloquium “Cultural Heritage and Archaeology: The Intersection of the Past and the Present” and learn from innovative archaeologists like keynote speaker Dr. Matt Reilly The Graduate Center More information: shorturl.at/XGP82


"Cultural targeting should concern us greatly," the PennCHC's Dr. Brian I. Daniels told the U.S. Congress's Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Erasing Ukrainian Identity and Culture HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab Smithsonian|CRI Gov't & Politics UMD Virginia Museum of Natural History shorturl.at/sv34h

Dr. Alda Benjamen University of Dayton writes for The Conversation U.S. about IS's erasure of Yazidi, Christian, and Shiite Muslim #culturalheritage in #Iraq. Now, her project seeks to preserve the heritage, cultural pluralism, and coexistence in the region theconversation.com/islamic-states…

On 11/14 at 12:30 p.m., please join us and @UPennLib @PennMuseum for a special lecture “Ground-Truthing Historical Memory” by Western University librarian Zack MacDonald. shorturl.at/mKkE9 CLALS Weitzman School of Design at Penn




Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., join the PennCHC and @UPennLib Penn Museum for Zack MacDonald’s lecture on “Ground-Truthing Historical Memory: Virtually Reconstructing Destroyed Villages of the Salvadoran Civil War.” shorturl.at/mKkE9 CLALS Weitzman School of Design at Penn Western University


On March 25 at 12:00 p.m., please join the PennCHC @PennMuseum for a book talk by Nancy Moses, author of "The Rescuers: The Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage." Nancy’s talk will focus on the work of Cori Wegener, the former director of Smithsonian|CRI.


Next Tuesday, please join the PennCHC Penn Museum for a book talk by Nancy Moses, author of "The Rescuers: The Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage." Nancy’s talk will focus on the work of Cori Wegener, the former director of Smithsonian|CRI.


Tomorrow, please join us Penn Museum for a talk with Nancy Moses about her new book, "The Rescuers: The Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage." penn.museum/calendar/450/t… #CulturalHeritage Smithsonian|CRI
