24. Ariane Thomas: a curator’s life at the Louvre
04/13/21 • 40 min
The world’s first Assyrian museum opened in 1847 in Paris, at the Louvre. Since then, the Louvre has curated one of the most important collections of antiquities from the ancient Middle East. What is the modern approach to curation there? Ariane discusses the curatorial role, from displays, research, combatting illegal antiquities, heritage protection, and partnerships with colleagues and institutions in the Middle East.
2:29 what a curator at the Louvre does
4:12 display at the Louvre
12:28 how research fits in
15:50 acquisitions and combatting illegal antiquities
20:40 Louvre’s activities in the Middle East
25:50 about the department of Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities
30:01 what the future might hold at the Louvre
Ariane in the news: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Presse/Communiques-de-presse/Nomination-d-Ariane-Thomas-a-la-tete-du-departement-des-antiquites-orientales-du-musee-du-Louvre
On the Louvre website: https://www.louvre.fr/recherche-et-conservation/departement-des-antiquites-orientales
Louvre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuseeLouvre
Louvre on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/louvre
ALIPH: https://www.aliph-foundation.org/
Music by Ruba Hillawi
Website: http://wedgepod.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw
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The world’s first Assyrian museum opened in 1847 in Paris, at the Louvre. Since then, the Louvre has curated one of the most important collections of antiquities from the ancient Middle East. What is the modern approach to curation there? Ariane discusses the curatorial role, from displays, research, combatting illegal antiquities, heritage protection, and partnerships with colleagues and institutions in the Middle East.
2:29 what a curator at the Louvre does
4:12 display at the Louvre
12:28 how research fits in
15:50 acquisitions and combatting illegal antiquities
20:40 Louvre’s activities in the Middle East
25:50 about the department of Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities
30:01 what the future might hold at the Louvre
Ariane in the news: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Presse/Communiques-de-presse/Nomination-d-Ariane-Thomas-a-la-tete-du-departement-des-antiquites-orientales-du-musee-du-Louvre
On the Louvre website: https://www.louvre.fr/recherche-et-conservation/departement-des-antiquites-orientales
Louvre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuseeLouvre
Louvre on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/louvre
ALIPH: https://www.aliph-foundation.org/
Music by Ruba Hillawi
Website: http://wedgepod.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @wedge_pod
Patreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod
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23. Heather Baker: Babylonian houses and housing
Many of us have spent a lot of time at home this year. What would that have been like in ancient Babylon? Heather talks about housing in the first millennium BC. What were houses like, who lived in them, and how did they use them? She discusses what houses meant to Babylonians, and how they were split and reconstituted by the family.
2:34 where was housing in the city?
4:13 where did people want to live?
6:42 did houses have kerb appeal?
8:54 a typical house
12:17 how rooms were used
15:13 who lived in a typical house?
18:09 keeping a family home
22:04 what about water?
26:01 how did you find where someone lived?
https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/heather-d-baker
https://hcommons.org/members/apkallatu/
https://utoronto.academia.edu/HeatherDBaker
Music by Ruba Hillawi
Website: http://wedgepod.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw
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25. Adelheid Otto, Nicolò Marchetti, Ingolf Thuesen: ICAANE: archaeology coming together
Adelheid, Nicolò, and Ingolf explain about the ICAANE. Why was it started, and how did it become what it is today? What does it take to organise an ICAANE? What lessons were learned from the recent, virtual ICAANE? And what can we expect from future ICAANEs? What can be done to make them more inclusive?
Adelheid:
2:49 About ICAANE
5:10 Scope of ICAANE
8:11 Who runs it?
10:22 Logistics of in-person ICAANE
Nicolò
14:21 Significance of ICAANE
16:20 Logistics of virtual ICAANE
23:17 Successes of virtual ICAANE Bologna
Ingolf
27:17 Why is ICAANE always in Europe?
28:55 What can we expect from ICAANE 2023 in Copenhagen?
34:10 Inclusion, and the future of ICAANE
Access to ICAANE 12 Bologna lectures: https://12icaane.site.ibrida.io
ICAANE 12 Bologna website: https://eventi.unibo.it/12icaane
OrientLab YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IjpFbH2DRU
Music by Ruba Hillawi
Website: http://wedgepod.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @wedge_pod
Patreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod
Thin End of the Wedge - 24. Ariane Thomas: a curator’s life at the Louvre
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Hello, and welcome to the Thin End of the Wedge. The podcast where experts from around the world share new and interesting stories about life in the ancient Middle East. My name is Jon. Each episode, I talk to friends and colleagues, and get them to explain their work in a way we can all understand
Jon TaylorMuseums have always been far more than depositories for objects. They have played influential
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