CHAMP
CHAMP is the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy at the University of Illinois. CHAMP is a strategic research center dedicated to the critical study of cultural heritage and museum practices on a worldwide scale in the context of globalization. CHAMP has extraordinary faculty strength with almost thirty faculty members teaching courses in our area of expertise. More than a dozen graduate students work with CHAMP, including by pursuing our Heritage Studies minor and Museum Studies minor. CHAMP sponsors lectures, conferences, film series and other events on campus. CHAMP faculty conduct projects around the world, the results of which are steadily published in fascinating books, articles, and technical reports. Please explore the left hand menu items for further information about CHAMP. And look below the images on this page to see the events happening this semester at CHAMP.
CHAMP’s SPRING 2012 EVENTS
January 31, 2012
Lecture: "The challenges of cultural landscape for preservation in Taiwan"
Presenter: Hsieh ChungHeng (Visiting Freeman Fellow)
Time: Noon
Place: Freeman Fellows Building on South Fifth Street
March 10-11, 2012
CONFERENCE: Contemporary Authenticity
(see detailed program under left-hand menu item “This Year’s Conference”
Monday, March 12, 6:00-7:00 pm, 302 Architecture Bldg.
Prita Meier, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wayne State University
“Selfhood on the Edge: African Photography at the Indian Ocean Crossroads”
Wednesday, March 14, 6:00-7:00 pm, 302 Architecture Bldg.
Samantha Noel, Moreau Postdoctoral Fellow, Notre Dame University
"From Exotic to Afro-Modern: Traversing Caribbean Art and Visual Culture"
Monday, April 2, 6:00-7:00 pm, 302 Architecture Bldg.
Laura de Becker, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK
"Remembering Rwanda: Representations of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda's National Museums and Memorials."
Wednesday, April 4, 11 a.m., Illini Union room 314
Lecture by Dr. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Wednesday April 4, 6:00-7:00 pm, 302 Architecture Bldg.
Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Art History, Stanford University
"Engraving the World: Rupestrian Art and Migration in Central Africa"
April 6, 2012
CONFERENCE: Heritage, Community and Landscape Conservation in India
(see detailed program under left-hand menu item “This Year’s Conference”