Date/Time
Date(s) – 05/25/2019
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location
NYMS Headquarters
Category(ies)
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— DOORS OPEN AT 11 AM ! —
At 2:15 Danielle Parsons, science filmmaker and Nikon Small World in Motion award recipient,
will review past projects, as well as her new streaming channel, Wonder Science, which aims to stimulate fresh interest in science among viewers who typically steer clear of educational media. Much of Wonder Science’s content trains microscope lenses on subjects in biology, physics, chemistry or mineralogy, opening worlds within worlds all around us yet normally unseen.
Danielle will also discuss and share from her current microscopy project filming liquid crystals selected from a collection of samples synthesized in the 1960’s and 1970’s by Marcel Vogel, who first developed the use of liquid crystals in technology.
Email: danielle@wonderscience.com
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Opening for Danielle at 1:00 is heritage conservator Irene Delaveris, of La Paz, Bolivia, who will discuss archaeological conservation, including uses of microscopy.
Delaveris has worked in Greece, Norway, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. For several recent years Irene taught preventive conservation and first aid for artifacts in archaeological excavations, for Anthropology and Archaeology students at the University Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), La Paz. There she originated the first Conservation Laboratory at a public university in Bolivia. Delaveris also reorganized and reopened an inactive conservation laboratory at the National Archaeological Museum in La Paz.
During the past decade Delaveris has worked to spread and adapt modern ‘scientific’ heritage conservation for Bolivian conditions and to impart corresponding knowledge and methods within local indigenous communities. Irene still provides training for students and museum workers through courses, workshops and meetings for Bolivia’s Directory of the Network of Community Museums, and she renders conservation services at various Bolivian sites and museums.
In western Bolivia near Lake Titicaca, Delaveris created the first conservation laboratory for Tiwanaku, one of the largest Pre-Columbian archaeological sites in South America. She has recently developed a specialty in the conservation of chullpares, ancient funeral towers found throughout the Andean Plateau or Altiplano.
Email: irenedelaveris@yahoo.com