The 2009 symposium will explore the architectural and spatial elements of cultural properties on the World Heritage and National Register lists and topics related to heritage designations as a factor in furthering the study of the built environment globally and locally. This focus, tailored in response to requests to include issues related to National Registries, is supported by a Georgia Humanities Council grant. Read about the topics to be addressed.

Speakers
The symposium will feature three keynote speakers:

• Zahi Hawass, renowned Egyptologist and Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt
• Ronald Lewcock, international conservator and professor at the University of Queensland
• Harold Kalman, prominent Canadian architectural historian and member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

Sponsors
This project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.

Funding for Hawass' keynote lecture is provided in part by the city of Savannah's Weave-A-Dream Program and the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts.