Public Programs @ The Institute
Series: Paul Lott Lecture
Speaker: Lynn Meskell, Dept of Historic Preservation and Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
Monday, October 5, 2026, 6:00pm
Lynn Meskell is Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Richard D. Green Professor in Anthropology, Professor in Historic Preservation at the Weitzman School of Design, and curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at Penn Museum. Meskell has received honorary doctorates from Rome and Bergen and holds Honorary Professorships at Oxford University, Liverpool University, Shiv Nadar in India, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Previously, she was the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. An authority on UNESCO World Heritage, her award-winning book A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace (OUP, 2018) reveals UNESCO’s early forays into a one-world archaeology and its later commitments to global heritage. Her forthcoming book with OUP, RUINED: The Heritage of War from UNESCO to NATO, explores the escalation of ruin warfare worldwide.
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