NO DOUBT YOU'RE HAVE MANY WEBINAR OPPORTUNITIES NOWADAYS. HERE'S A GREAT ONE: THE SPEAKERS ARE TERRIFIC, THE TOPIC IS IMPORTANT AND TIMELY, AND WE SHOULD STRENGTHEN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS: US/ICOMOS AND ICOMOS. WE ALSO NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO HOW OUR NATIONAL POLICIES IMPACT WORLD HERITAGE SITES AND POTENTIAL HERITAGE SITES IN THE US.
The US National Committee to the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) Presents a live webcast of:
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites and the World Heritage List
Date: July 30, 2010
Time: Noon – 1:00 PM EDT
Register today: https://bit.ly/2CAEgYv
Please join US/ICOMOS for a webinar on the efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret African American heritage sites associated with the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the effort to develop a potential serial nomination of U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites for possible inscription on the World Heritage List.
Speakers:
- Brent Leggs,Executive Director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
- Denise Gilmore,Acting Executive Director of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service
For more information including speaker photos and bios, please visit:
https://usicomos.org/inaugural-us-icomos-world-heritage-webinar-civil-rights-movement-sites-and-the-world-heritage-list/
For more information, please contact jspreitzer@usicomos.org.
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The US National Committee to the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) promotes the conservation of world heritage and stronger connections to the global heritage community through advocacy, education, and the international exchange of people and ideas. ICOMOS is one of the three formal advisory bodies to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee responsible for the evaluation of all nominations of cultural properties made to the World Heritage List.
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Jennifer Spreitzer
Communications Manager, US/ICOMOS
708.362.3881 jspreitzer@usicomos.org
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Peyton Hall FAIA
Principal Architect
Historic Resources Group
Pasadena CA
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