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International Symposium "Statues also die. Destruction and Preservation in Ancient and Modern Times"

From Monday 28 May 2018 at 9:00am, to Tuesday 29 May 2018 at 8:00pm

The international Symposium  "Statues also die. Destruction and Preservation in Ancient and Modern Times", organised by the Egyptian Museum of Turin, will take place on 28th-29th May 2018 in Turin.

 

The Symposium will gather scholars from different disciplinary and artistic areas with the aim of engaging in a critical discussion of the destruction and preservation of material culture in the past as in more recent times. These chronologically and geographically widespread phenomena will be scrutinized through the lenses of archaeology, history, contemporary art, sociology, anthropology and museology.

 

The language of the symposium is English. Simultaneous translation will not be provided.

 

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