Cori Wegener, founding President of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, has rejoined the Board of Directors. As President she helped to lead the successful lobbying effort for the 2009 U.S. Senate ratification of the 1954 Hague Conventional for the Protection of Culture Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Currently she is the Director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and Cultural Heritage Preservation Officer at the Smithsonian Institution.
Brian Daniels is Director of Research and Programs for the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. His research centers around conflict, cultural loss, and human rights violations; community-based approaches to cultural heritage preservation; and indigenous rights and recognition. He leads the Conflict Culture Research Network which is focused on the study of intentional cultural destruction.
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August 31, 2026
You may have heard the term, “Section 106,” in discussions of U.S. heritage. Perhaps you have seen it in recent headlines. If you’re unfamiliar with this term, “Section 106” refers to a particular part of the [...]
August 28, 2026
We are just three weeks out from our 2026 Annual Conference, "The US Committee of the Blue Shield at Twenty: Two Decades of Protecting Cultural Heritage in Peril," to be held in partnership with the Washington [...]
August 7, 2026
USCBS and American University's Washington College of Law are excited to announce that registration is now open for "The U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield at Twenty: Two Decades of Protecting Cultural Heritage in Peril," our annual [...]
