Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC

The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. (PCSWDC), is an educational organization dedicated to furthering knowledge and understanding of the peoples of the Americas before the time of Columbus. Founded in 1993, the Society provides a forum for the exchange of information regarding these pre-Columbian cultures between academic professionals and interested members of the public.

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OCTOBER 2023 MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Protecting the Irreplaceable: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Government Efforts to Preserve the Americas’ Cultural Heritage

Andrew Zonderman, PhD, Cultural Heritage Center, U.S. Department of State

For over a half century, the Government of the United States has taken measures independently and with the international community to protect and preserve cultural heritage.  Its earliest and most enduring interventions have been in the Western Hemisphere, notably the 1970 Treaty of Cooperation with the Government of Mexico and the 1972 Pre-Columbian Monumental and Architectural Sculpture and Murals Act. Dr. Zonderman will examine these and other U.S. federal laws, policies, and programs that ensure contemporary and future peoples can engage with the millennia of human history in the Americas.

Andrew Zonderman is a Foreign Affairs Officer and 2020 class Presidential Management Fellow.  At the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Heritage Center he is responsible for monitoring cultural heritage issues in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean as well as managing bilateral cultural property agreements between the United States and countries within these regions.  Dr. Zonderman received his Ph.D. in History from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019 and earned his A.B. in History from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he was a Robertson Scholar.

The October monthly lecture will be hosted in person as well as virtually. The meeting will be held in the lecture theatre of the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, located at M and 17th Streets, NW, Washington, D.C. Photo ID is required to enter the building. Doors to the in-person meeting will open around 6:30 PM and light refreshments will be available before the lecture.

For those of you who cannot make it to the Sumner School in person, the lecture will be live streamed via Zoom but you must pre-register to attend virtually. Click HERE to register.

All monthly lecture meetings of the Pre-Columbian Society are free and open to the public.

Earlier Event: September 8
SEPTEMBER 2023 MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Later Event: November 3
NOVERMBER 2023 MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP

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