Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation

About Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation

Why do we save historic places? For whom? How can heritage conservation advance equity, justice, and climate adaptation? This podcast explores these and other issues with students at the University of Southern California, for a glimpse of the future of the field.

Publisher

USC Master of Heritage Conservation Program

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Oct 2020

Latest episode

13 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

77 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Whose Independence? SoCal 250 through Scholarship and Storytelling

   This spring, as the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence approached, USC Heritage Conservation students explored this milestone from a West Coast perspective. The season finale of Save As welcomes back Dr. Laura Dominguez (MHC '12)—public humanities scholar, heritage conservation leader, and newest member of the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission. Laura taught a documentation class based on her work on LA2026, a USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies In...

2. 

   21 May 2026

   Where the Surf Sounds Loudly: The Adamson House and Climate Change

   Sea levels are rising ever faster in the face of climate change, and by the year 2100 many historic properties could be underwater. Recent Heritage Conservation graduate Alex Clark wrote her thesis on the Adamson House in Malibu, built in 1929 and famed for its Malibu Potteries tile. In her thesis, Heritage at the Water's Edge. Adaptive Release at the Adamson House, Alex outlines the site’s layered history and current use as a museum. Alex tells producer Willa Seidenberg how coastal ero...

3. 

   22 Apr 2026

   Heritage Lynching: Violence in Preservation

   Recent USC Heritage Conservation graduate Eliza Jane Franklin wrote her master’s thesis on a deeply personal topic: lynching. Not just the act of physical violence that took her great-grandfather’s life in 1922, but “the act of terrorizing and/or controlling individuals’ or a community’s heritage,” which she named “heritage lynching.” In this episode, co-host Trudi Sandmeier speaks with Eliza Jane about her thesis, Re-Membering Heritage Lynchings, Hoop Skirts, and History: A Southernbelle Rad...

Who has been a guest on Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mel James
• Leslie Madrigal
• Evan McAvenia
• Paul Kim

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YouTube views

461

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

51

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

82

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