Conference Session - International Cultural Heritage Restitution: From Provenance Research to Collaborative Return

Society for American Archaeology
91st Annual Meeting
Session Presented by the UCLA Waystation Initiative
Hilton Union Square, San Francisco, CA

This session brings together students and advanced scholars to discuss ongoing provenance research that supports the return of cultural objects to their nations and communities of origin. Topics include graduate and undergraduate research on objects currently stewarded by the UCLA Waystation prior to their voluntary return, along with case studies examining the challenges of restitution—including Peruvian collections in the British Museum, Native American materials in Glasgow, and Philippine objects at the University of Michigan.

Chairs: 

Lyssa C. Stapleton, UCLA
Julienne Bernard, East Los Angeles College
Jason De León, UCLA

Discussant: 

Ken Seligson, Cal State Dominguez Hills

Speakers: 

Katrina Kuxhausen, UCLA
Anauene Dias Soares, University of Brasilia
Abigail Halling, Chapman University
Bianca Marshall, UCLA
Chloe Gupta, UCLA
Jim Moss, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Cecilia Pardo Grau, Universidad Del Pacífico
Saul Soto, East Los Angeles College
Elizabeth Rodriguez and Samantha Amarilles, UCLA and Cal State
Dominguez Hills
Gobbi Lynn, Cal State Long Beach
Markus Hallensleben, Kieth Jordan and Daniel Gámez, Univ. of British Columbia
and UCLA
Tamara M. Serrao-Leiva, San Bernadino County Museum
Reilly Clark, UC Santa Barbara