Please join us live on Zoom for a panel discussion and Q&A featuring Jane Klinger (she/her/hers), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Laura Levitt (she/her/hers), Temple University Department of Religion; and Margalit Schindler (they/them/theirs), Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation.

“The Objects that Remain: The Ethics of Tending to Sacred Objects”

What makes an object sacred, and what does it mean to care for sacred objects? Three interdisciplinary presentations will bridge scholarship on Museum Studies, Jewish Studies, criminal justice and feminist theory with reflections on the practice and ethics of conservation. The presenters will explore: how do institutions and academic disciplines differ in their understanding of sacred objects and how to care for them? Who actually does the work of conservation and how is it often invisible and thus gendered work? How do disparate stakeholders—national museums, private collections, police holdings, and others—preserve objects and for what purpose?

Please register for this Webinar here.

This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the University of Delaware Jewish Studies Program, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Department of History – Museum Studies Program, Department of Art Conservation, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Center for Material Culture Studies.