On April 21, 2022, archaeologist Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Ece Erlat, Jaimie Luria, and Emily Sharp) and faculty host and CIAMS director Adam Smith to discuss the UNESCO, heritage politics, and the role of archaeology in the construction of heritage. The conversation centered on two works by Professor Meskell: a selection from her 2018 monograph “A future in ruins: UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace,” from Oxford University Press, and a 2021 article coauthored with Christina Luke in the journal “Contemporary Levant” titled “Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the desert.”
Photo by Eric Sucar.