Bonnie Burnham

Bonnie Burnham, president of the World Monument Fund, will talk about the organization's 2014 watch list of endangered cultural heritage sites. This year’s list includes 67 sites in 41 countries, and includes places both near (like the Hudson River Palisades) and far (like the city of Yangon, Myanmar).

There are hundreds of archaeological sites from the Maya civilization that date as far back as 500 B.C. Many of the sites are threatened by neglect, dam projects, and slash-and-burn agriculture. Charles Golden, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, and Bonnie Burnham, President of the World Monuments Fund, join ...