a two day event focusing on the history, current realities 

 and future agenda of the English, French and Spanish 

 speaking Caribbean communities in the Metropolitan 

 area. 



November 6-9 



■ International workshop In collaboration with, and 

 sponsored by, the International Atomic Energy Agency 

 (IAEA), the Conservation Analytical Laboratory (CAL) 

 organized a workshop on applications of nuclear and 

 radiation techniques in the examination and conserva- 

 tion of cultural materials. Archaeologists and a nuclear 

 scientist from eight different Latin American countries 

 along with CAL researchers and IAEA staff explored the 

 use of neutron activation trace element analysis of 

 ceramics in archaeological research in Latin America, 

 while ten conservation and radiation experts from 

 Europe and North America discussed issues surround- 

 ing the use of radiation treatments for pest control in 

 museums, archives and libraries. 



November 10-11 



■ Symposium At the National Museum of American 

 History, "The Inventor and the Innovative Society" was 

 the Lemelson Center's inaugural symposium in its fall 

 seties New Perspectives on Invention and Innovation. 

 The program featured a keynote address by Paul Mac- 

 Cready and an electronic field trip highlighting young 

 inventors. 



November 11 



■ Public Program The National Portrait Gallery 

 presented Cultures in Motion: "MEN of COLOR! To 

 Arms! To Arms!," a special Veterans Day reenactment 

 of an 1863 "Mass Meeting to promote Recruiting 

 Coloted Troops for Three Years of the War." Al Freeman 

 as Frederick Douglass joined other actors in roles as dis- 

 tinguished speakers and the Massachusetts 54th Regi- 

 ment to reproduce this 19th century event. 



November 13 



pendence. a vivid documentation of his experiences as a 

 reporter who uses a wheelchair. 



November 14 



■ Construction The Office of Contracting and Property 

 Management awarded a contract to Sherman R. Smoot 

 Corporation for the construction of the National 

 Museum of Natural History's East Court Project. 



November 14 



■ Exhibition Earth 2U. Exploring Geography, an exhibi- 

 tion co-developed by the Smithsonian Institution 

 Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), premiered at the 

 National Geographic Society's Explorers Hall. The 

 hands-on family exhibition, which is enhanced by ac- 

 tivity guides, geogtaphy game prizes, and classroom 

 Discovery Trunks, will travel to forty American cities 

 over the next five years. SITES also published 250,000 

 copies of the Earth 2U, Exploring Geography Curriculum 

 Guide for free distribution to 4th, 5th, and 6th grade 

 teachers across the country. Earth 2U , Exploring Geog- 

 raphy and its accompanying educational programs, or- 

 ganized by SITES and the National Geographic Society, 

 are made possible through the generous support of Nis- 

 san Motot Corporation U.S.A. 



November 15— April 14 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of Natural History 

 was the only U.S. venue to host the critically acclaimed ex- 

 hibition Landscape Kimonos by Itchiku Kuhota. The exhibi- 

 tion presented 45 luminous silk kimonos, a masterful 

 artist's homage to nature and to Japanese dyeing traditions. 



November 17- March ij 



■ Exhibition The major National Museum of 

 American Art exhibition "Metropolitan Lives: The Ash- 

 can Artists and Their New York," which captured the 

 unbridled energy of what had just become America's 

 most important city, opened to rave reviews and public 

 acclaim. 



■ Public Program The Accessibility Program in the Of- 

 fice of the Provost collaborated with the Smithsonian 

 Associates to present a lecture by radio and television 

 correspondent John Hockenberry. Hockenberry offered 

 commentary on his recent publication, Moving Viola- 

 tions: War Zones. Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Inde- 



November 18 



■ Exhibition and Programs "Directions: Carmen Lomas 

 Garza," an exhibition of vivid narrative paintings by 

 this San Francisco-based artist (b. 1948) chronicling her 

 Mexican American South Texas childhood, opened at 



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