ENGAGING CONSERVATION: COLLABORATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES Penn Museum Symposium 6-8 October 2016

SCHEDULE THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER

8:45 – 9:10 Arrival and registration

SESSION 1: ENGAGING EDUCATION 9:10 – 9:20 Introduction and Welcome Lynn Grant

9:20 – 9:40 Gentlewomen in the Field and Museum: Unacknowledged Pioneers in the Development of Conservation as both Profession and University Discipline – the University of London Case Caitlin R. O’Grady

9:40 – 10:00 Pedagogy and the ‘Working Collection’: Teaching Technical Research and Experimental Archaeology at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum Sanchita Balachandran

10:20 – 10:40 Working Hand-in-Hand: Archaeological Science Meets Conservation at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials Marie-Claude Boileau and Katherine M. Moore

10:40 – 11:10 Break: Breakfast foods and coffee

11:10 – 11:30 Education, Tradition, and Preservation: validating exchanges between Pedro’s houses Márcia Valéria de Souza

11:30 – 11:50 A critical review of 25 years of training activities in archaeological conservation Roberto Nardi

11:50 – 12:10 Archaeological Conservation Education at the MVAP Poggio Colla Field School Allison Lewis and Cameron C. Turley

12:10 – 12:30 Discussion Time

ENGAGING CONSERVATION: COLLABORATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES Penn Museum Symposium 6-8 October 2016

12:30 – 1:35 Lunch

SESSION 2: ENGAGING ARCHAEOLOGY 1:35 – 1:40 Penn Conservation Stories

1:40 – 2:00 On Site Archaeological Conservation at Jamestown Rediscovery Dan Gamble and Katharine Corneli

2:00 – 2:20 On-site conservation: Amara West, Sudan, 80 years in the making Maickel van Bellegem, Philip Kevin, and Neal Spencer

2:20 – 2:40 Conservation at Abydos: Past Practices and Future Possibilities Hiroko Kariya, Lucy-Anne Skinner, *Molly Gleeson, *Evelyn (Eve) Mayberger, Josef Wegner, and Matthew Adams,

2:40 – 3:00 Snack break

3:00 – 3:20 Conservation Support in Field Projects Jiafang Liang and Xiaoxiao Wang

3:20 – 3:40 With a Little Help from Our Friends: Facilitating Collaboration between Archaeologists and Conservators at Morgantina (Sicily) Aislinn Smalling, Leigh Anne Lieberman, Anne E. Truetzel, and D. Alex Walthall

3:40 – 4:00 A History of Object Conservation at the Gordion Archaeological Project in Turkey Jessica S. Johnson and Cricket Harbeck

4:00 – 4:30 Discussion time

4:30 – 6:00 Reception

6:00 – 6:45 Keynote Address Negotiating the Interaction of Archaeology and Conservation in Turkey during the 20th and 21st Centuries C. Brian Rose

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FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER

SESSION 3: ENGAGING COMMUNITY 9:10 – 9:20 Penn Conservation Stories

9:20 – 9:40 Supporting Community Revitalization: Curatorial and Conservation Stewardship at The Penn Museum Lucy Fowler Williams

9:40 – 10:00 Learning from an 'old one': a Tlingit basket makes its journey home Bruno Pouliot, *Teri Rofkar, Leah Bright, and Crista Pack

10:20 – 10:40 An Integrated Approach to the Conservation of Cultural Collections Landis Smith Kelly McHugh Michele Austin-Dennehy

10:40 – 11:10 Break: Breakfast foods and coffee

11:10 – 11:30 Conservation Project Aimed at Social Use of Aypate Archaeological Area (Ayabaca-Piura) Boris Márquez

11:30 – 11:50 The Effects On Conservation of the Changing Appreciation of Central African Objects Siska Genbrugge

11:50 – 12:10 Conserving the tataayiyam honuuka' (Ancestors): A Case Study at the Autry Museum of the American West Özge Gençay-Üstün, Cindi Moar Alvitre, Desireé Reneé Martinez, Karimah Kennedy Richardson, and Lylliam Posadas

12:10 – 12:30 Discussion Time

12:30 – 1:35 Lunch

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SESSION 4: ENGAGING INSTITUTIONS 1:35 – 1:40 Penn Conservation Stories

1:40 – 2:00 The Ur Digitization Project: Examination of the Metals from an Akkadian Tomb at Ur Richard Zettler, Tessa de Alarcon, Moritz Jansen, and Naomi Miller

2:00 – 2:20 Crossing the "river of gold" from Sitio Conte to El Caño, Panama: an historical perspective on archaeology/conservation collaboration Harriet (Rae) F. Beaubien, Ainslie C. Harrison, Kim Cullen Cobb, and Lynn Grant

2:20 – 2:40 The Sea, the Sub, and Maritime Collaboration: How conservators and archaeologists worked together to recover and conserve the H.L. Hunley submarine Johanna Rivera and Michael P. Scafuri

2:40 – 3:00 Snack break

3:00 – 3:20 Chemistry Revisited in a Laboratory for Art Francesca G. Bewer, Katherine Eremin, Angela Chang, Anthony Sigel, and Georgina Rayner

3:20 – 3:40 An Evolving Approach for the Conservation of Pottery Vessels Nancy Odegaard and Marilen Pool Additional contributions from Christina Bisulca, Betsy Burr, Skyler Jenkins, Alvaro Martes, Nicole Peters, Anthony Sweezy, and Gina Watkinson, Arizona State Museum and University of Arizona

3:40 – 4:00 We need to move it, move it: A large-scale collections move project at the Penn Museum Alexis North, Cassia Balogh, Taylor Barrett, Jacquelyn Bowen, Kevin Cahail, Severine Craig, and Bob Thurlow

4:00 – 4:30 Discussion time

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SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER

SESSION 5: ENGAGING SCIENCE 9:15 – 9:20 Penn Conservation Stories

9:20 – 9:35 A Rare Reference Resource: Five Lakota Painted Buffalo Robes from Standing Rock Reservation Nina Owczarek, William Wierzbowski, and W. Christian Petersen

9:35 – 9:50 Down in the dumps: Analysis of glass production debris from Petrie’s excavations at Amarna Vanessa Muros, Nicole Little, Yuan Lin, and Patrick Boehnke

9:50 – 10:15 A Comparative Study of TEOS-based Formulations for the Consolidation of Mudbricks Betsy Burr, Heather White, and Christian Fischer

10:15 – 10:45 Break: Breakfast foods and coffee

10:45 – 11:00 Gaining new insights into ethnographic materials through collagen fingerprinting Daniel Kirby

11:00 – 11:15 Collaboratively Thinking Forward: Three-Dimensional (3D) Data in Conservation and Archaeology Jessica Walthew, Evelyn (Eve) Mayberger, Alison Hight, David R. Scahill, and Anna Serotta

11:30 – 11:45 Technology from 2,000 Years Ago and Today: Using 3D Printing and Scanning to Reconstruct a Kylix by the Potter Euphronios Kathryn Etre, Alison Hight

11:45 – 12:15 Discussion Time

12:15 – 12:35 Closing remarks or discussion

POST SYMPOSIUM TOURS 12:30 – 1:00 In the Artifact Lab - Open window 1:00 – 1:30 Lab tour 1 1:30 – 2:00 Lab tour 2

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTERS

Adams, Matthew; New York University

Alvitre, Cindi Moar; CSU Long Beach; American Indian Studies

Austin-Dennehy, Michele

Balachandran, Sanchita; Curator/Conservator; The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum

Balogh, Cassia; First Year Fellow; Winterthur/University of Delaware

Barrett, Taylor; Collections Move Technician; Penn Museum

Beaubien, Harriet (Rae) F.; Research Associate/Senior Objects Conservator emerita; Museum Conservation Institute; Smithsonian Institution; Principal; Beaubien Conservation; Santa Fe NM

Bewer, Francesca G.

Boehnke, Patrick; Ph. D. Candidate; Dept. of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences; UCLA

Boileau, Marie-Claude; Ph.D.; Laboratory Coordinator; Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials; Penn Museum

Bowen, Jacquelyn; Collections Move Technician; Penn Museum

Bright, Leah; Graduate Fellow; Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

Burr, Betsy; Kress Fellow; Arizona State Museum; Tucson AZ

Cahail, Kevin; Ph. D.; Curatorial Assistant; Penn Museum

Chang, Angela

Cobb, Kim Cullen; Senior Conservator; KCC Conservation LLC; Metro Washington DC area; Research Associate; Museum Conservation Institute; Smithsonian Institution

Corneli, Katharine; Assistant Conservator; Jamestown Rediscovery

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Craig, Severine; Collections Move Technician; Penn Museum de Alarcon, Tessa; Kowalski Family Project Conservator; Penn Museum de Souza, Márcia Valéria; Manager; Central Lab for Conservation and Restoration; National Museum

Eremin, Katherine

Etre, Kathryn; Conservator; Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Fischer, Christian; Professor; UCLA/Getty Conservation Program; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; Los Angeles

Gamble, Dan; Senior Conservator; Jamestown Rediscovery

Genbrugge, Siska; Objects Conservator; Royal Museum for Central Africa; Tervuren (Belgium)

Gençay-Üstün, Özge; Assistant Conservator; Autry Museum of the American West

Gleeson, Molly; Schwartz Project Conservator; Penn Museum

Grant, Lynn; Head of Conservation; Penn Museum

Harbeck, Cricket; LLC, Objects & Sculpture Conservation; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Conservator; The Gordion Project; University of Pennsylvania Museum

Harrison, Ainslie C.; Associate Conservator; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond VA

Hight, Alison; digital subject matter expert; freelance

Jansen, Moritz; CAAM - Teaching Specialist for Archaeometallurgy; Penn Museum

Johnson, Jessica S.; Head of Conservation; Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute; and Conservator; The Gordion Project; University of Pennsylvania Museum

Kariya, Hiroko; Objects Conservator; private practice

Kennedy Richardson, Karimah; Staff Archaeologist and Osteologist; Autry Museum of the American West

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Kevin, Philip; Conservator Organic Materials; British Museum

Kirby, Daniel; Conservation Scientist in private practice

Lewis, Allison; Objects Conservator; Oakland Museum of California

Liang, Jiafang; Conservator and Assistant Researcher; Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology; Key Scientific Research Base of On-site Conservation; State Administration for Cultural Heritage

Lieberman, Leigh Anne; PhD Candidate; Princeton University

Lin, Yuan; Ph. D. Candidate; Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; UCLA

Little, Nicole; Physical Scientist; Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute

Márquez, Boris; Archaeological Conservator; Consultant

Martinez, Desireé Reneé; Project Archaeologist; Cogstone Resource Management

Mayberger, Evelyn (Eve); Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Beginning in November 2016)

McHugh, Kelly

Miller, Naomi; Ph. D; Consulting Scholar; Penn Museum; Near East Section

Moore, Katherine M.; Ph.D.; Mainwaring Teaching Specialist; Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials; Penn Museum

Muros, Vanessa; Conservation Specialist/Lecturer; UCLA/Getty Conservation Program

Nardi, Roberto; Director; Centro di Conservazione Archeologica – Rome

North, Alexis; Project Conservator; Penn Museum

Odegaard, Nancy; Ph. D.; Head of Preservation Division and Conservator; Arizona State Museum; Co-Director; Heritage Conservation Science Program and Professor; Materials Science & Engineering Department and School of Anthropology and Heritage Conservation; Drachman Institute; College of Architecture; The University of Arizona

O’Grady, Caitlin R.; Ph. D.; Lecturer in Conservation; Institute of Archaeology; University College London, UK

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Owczarek, Nina; Williams Associate Conservator; Penn Museum

Pack, Crista; Objects Conservator Missouri History Museum

Petersen, W. Christian; Ph. D.; Affiliated Associate Professor; Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

Pool, Marilen; Project Conservator; Preservation Division; Arizona State Museum and University of Arizona

Posadas, Lylliam; NAGPRA Coordinator; Autry Museum of the American West

Pouliot, Bruno; Senior Objects Conservator and Affiliated Assistant Professor; Winterthur Museum and Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

Rayner, Georgina

Rivera, Johanna; Conservator and Collections Manager; Warren Lasch Conservation Center; Clemson University Restoration Institute

Rofkar, Teri; Tlingit basketry artist and master; Sitka, Alaska

Scafuri, Michael P.; Archaeologist; Warren Lasch Conservation Center; Clemson University Restoration Institute

Scahill, David R.; Ph. D.; Post-doctoral researcher and Senior Associate Member; American School of Classical Studies at Athens; and Visiting Professor; Scuola Normale Superiore; Pisa

Serotta, Anna; Project Objects Conservator; Brooklyn Museum

Sigel, Anthony

Skinner, Lucy-Anne; Independent Archaeological Conservator

Smalling, Aislinn; Leventis Foundation Fellow; Penn Museum

Smith, Landis

Spencer, Neal; Keeper of Ancient Egypt and Sudan; British Museum

Thurlow, Bob; Special Projects Manager; Penn Museum

Truetzel, Anne E.; Ph. D. Candidate; Princeton University

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Turley, Cameron C.; Ph. D. Candidate; City University of New York van Bellegem, Maickel; ACR; Metals Conservator; British Museum

Walthall, D. Alex; Assistant Professor; University of Texas, Austin

Walthew, Jessica; Mellon Fellow; American Museum of Natural History/Bard Graduate Center

Wang, Xiaoxiao; Conservator and Assistant Researcher; Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology; Key Scientific Research Base of On-site Conservation; State Administration for Cultural Heritage

Wegner, Josef; Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania/Penn Museum

White, Heather; UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials; Los Angeles

Wierzbowski, William; Keeper; American Section; Penn Museum

Williams, Lucy Fowler; Associate Curator; Senior Keeper of Collections; American Section; Penn Museum

Zettler, Richard; Ph. D.; Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Near East Section; Penn Museum

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