Irina Bokova, the director-general of UNESCO, will give a lecture at Yale on Monday, April 11 titled “Culture in Crisis,” about confronting significant threats to the world’s cultural heritage.
Her talk will be held at 7 p.m. in the Zhang Auditorium at the Yale School of Management. It is free and open to the public and part of the events being held on campus in conjunction with the eighth Global Colloquium of University Presidents.
As director-general of UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — Bokova is leading the response to the destruction of UNESCO World Heritage sites in Syria, including the ancient city of Palmyra that was recently retaken from ISIS militants, as well as sites in Iraq and in other regions.
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