{"id":7828,"date":"2013-05-07T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2013-05-07T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:11:02","slug":"the-2013-aic-great-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/05\/07\/the-2013-aic-great-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013 AIC Great Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2012 AIC Annual Meeting we hosted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2012\/04\/the-2012-great-debate-at-aic\/\">first ever AIC Great Debate<\/a>. By all accounts, it was a rousing success. While last year\u2019s debate was good, this year\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0hoping to make it better.<br \/>\nThe 2013 Great Debate will take place on <strong>Saturday, June 1 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm<\/strong> as the final session\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation-us.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&amp;pageId=1063&amp;parentID=710\">General Session<\/a>. \u00a0Now not only will\u00a0\u00a0everyone have the opportunity to attend, but you&#8217;ll have a good reason to stay to the very end of the Annual Meeting! \u00a0And, as the ultimate way to promote dialogue, camaraderie, and, well, fun, we will have a <strong>cash bar<\/strong> in the room. Finally, I&#8217;m working on walk up music for the teams: hint all of the musicians were born in Indiana.<br \/>\nBut, before I list this year\u2019s debate topics and participants, I want to make a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">very important disclaimer<\/span><\/strong>: I created the AIC Great Debate as an intellectual exercise to demonstrate that conservators are clever enough to see a tough topic from both sides and discuss it openly.<br \/>\nWith this in mind, in many cases I have personally invited participants to debate from a position that is contrary to their personal beliefs. This not only adds a fun twist it proves the point that the Debate is not meant to provide a forum so we can prove one side is right, but rather to engage in a public dialogue to surface all of this issues around difficult topics. And though I&#8217;m\u00a0listing participant\u2019s institutional affiliations (so\u00a0you&#8217;ll\u00a0get a chance to know\u00a0them better), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>in no way am I suggesting that the participants are representing an institutional position in the Debate<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\n<strong>TOPIC 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The greatest act of preservation for inherently fragile or fugitive cultural property is exhibition, even if the duration goes far beyond what is currently recommended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Affirmative Team<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7853\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-Great-Debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7853\" alt=\"2012 Great Debate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-Great-Debate-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/05\/The-Great-Debate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/05\/The-Great-Debate-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/05\/The-Great-Debate.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2012 Great Debate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rosa Lowinger<\/strong> (<em>Rosa Lowinger &amp; Associates<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patty Miller<\/strong> (<em>2 Arts Conservation<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jodie Utter<\/strong> (<em>Amon Carter Museum of American Art<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Negative Team<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Campbell<\/strong> (<em>Campbell Contemporary Sculpture Conservation<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fletcher Durant<\/strong> (<em>New York Public Library<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Ford<\/strong> (<em>University of Delaware Art Conservation Graduate School<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TOPIC 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">While volunteers used on preservation projects often allow us to accomplish more work, they undermine our capacity to regularly employ conservation and collections care professionals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Affirmative Team<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rose Cull<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Kress Fellow in Sculpture Conservation at Tate<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kelly\u00a0<\/strong><b>Keegan<\/b>\u00a0(<em>Art Institute of Chicago<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dawn Walus<\/strong> (<em>Boston Athenaeum<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Negative Team<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Will Hoffman<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Mariners Museum<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michele Marincola<\/strong> (<em>Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts\/Metropolitan Museum<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beverly Perkins<\/strong> (<em>Buffalo Bill Center of the West<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Like last year, I&#8217;d like to ask you for help to make the AIC Great Debate\u00a0successful. \u00a0We need you! \u00a0We need you in the audience to be lively, interested, engaged, and fun. \u00a0And I\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0mean just to cheer on your favorite conservator or team; we need you to participate in the Great Debate at AIC!<\/p>\n<p>There will be a significant amount of time in which the audience will get to ask each team questions to which they have to respond.<br \/>\nAnd, finally, we need you to decide who wins the debate. \u00a0The winning team for each topic will be the one who sways the most opinions in the audience.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re interested in reading about how the AIC Great Debate went last year, there are reviews on this blog of each debate topic.<br \/>\n2012 TOPIC #1: \u00a0Publishing accurate and complete \u201chow-to guides\u201d for conservation and restoration treatments online is the best way for us to care for cultural heritage in the 21st century. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2012\/05\/aic-annual-meeting-2012-the-great-debate-part-i\/\">Read the review here<\/a>.<br \/>\n2012 TOPIC #2: Having conservators perform treatments in the gallery is the most successful way to generate funding for museums and raise awareness about the profession. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2012\/06\/aic-annual-meeting-2012-the-great-debate-part-ii\/\">Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2012 AIC Annual Meeting we hosted the first ever AIC Great Debate. By all accounts, it was a rousing success. While last year\u2019s debate was good, this year\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0hoping to make it better. The 2013 Great Debate will take place on Saturday, June 1 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm as the final session\u00a0in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/05\/07\/the-2013-aic-great-debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2013 AIC Great Debate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":7853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,10],"tags":[72,1009],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-ccs","category-general-sessions","tag-aics-41st-annual-meeting","tag-the-great-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}