Lynn Meskell
Lynn Meskell est professeur Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) à l'Université de Pennsylvanie. Elle est professeure d'anthropologie Richard D. Green à l'École des arts et des sciences, professeure au programme d'études supérieures en préservation historique à la Weitzman School of Design et conservatrice des sections Moyen-Orient et Asie au Penn Museum. Elle est actuellement professeure titulaire AD White à l'Université Cornell (2019-2025).
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Le projet
Titre : UNESCO World Heritage @ 50
I will be back in the archives of UNESCO, Paris examining the legacy of the 1972 World Heritage Convention in the context of India and the Middle East, with particular attention to the development of heritage humanitarianism
Mots-clés : UNESCO World Heritage, institutional ethnography, cultural diplomacy, India, Middle East, atomic archaeology
Sélection de publications
- 2018 A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage and the Dream of Peace, Oxford University Press: New York.
- 2022 • Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American Adventurism, American Anthropologist, 2022: 1-15.
- Rainey and the Russians: Arctic archaeology, ‘Eskimology’ and Cold War cultural diplomacy, Archaeological Dialogues 39: 138-154.
- “Your Mysterious Instruments”: American Devices and Imperial Designs in Cold War Archaeology (with S. LaPorte) Journal of Field Archaeology 47/4: 212-227.
- The World Is Not Enough: New Diplomacy and Dilemmas for the World Heritage Convention at 50 (with Claudia Liuzza) International Journal of Cultural Property, 2022: 1-22.
- UNESCO and Global Governance, Keynote Reflection, in R. Bernecker and N. Franceschini (eds). 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict and Reconciliation, Springer: Cham. 75-80.
- Saving the World: Fifty Years of the Convention, Conservation, and Collaboration (with Claudia Liuzza) Change over Time, 11/2: 142-161.
