Join us for an elegant dinner at the O.Henry Hotel and a fascinating talk from guest speaker Richard Kurin, curator and author of The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects. Plus we will present the 2025 Voices of a City Awards.
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About the Speaker: Dr. Richard Kurin is the Smithsonian’s Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large, having previously served for more than a decade as Under Secretary overseeing all the Smithsonian’s national museums, scientific research centers and educational programs. Kurin helped formulate the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage now ratified by 180 nations. He also founded the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and has worked to save cultural heritage endangered by natural disasters and human conflict in the U.S. and around the world. He has worked closely with U.S. government agencies and with local partners in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and currently Ukraine to safeguard heritage, identify looted art, and monitor cultural war crimes. An anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, Kurin has authored seven books including the best-selling The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects, taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center.
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