Inka Road Symposium 03 - Introductory Remarks
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- Inka Road Symposium 03 - Introductory Remarks
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- This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire, with a fascinating look at the material, political, economic, and religious structures that integrated more than one hundred Native nations and millions of people in the powerful Andean Empire known as the Tawantinsuyu. In this segment, G. Wayne Clough, Secretary Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution, gives some opening remarks. G. Wayne Clough served as the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from July 2008 to December 2014. Clough launched a new era at the Institution, expanding the Smithsonian's global relevance and helping the nation shape its future through research, education, and scientific discovery on major topics of the day. One of his first initiatives led to a new strategic plan that speaks to four grand challenges that will bring together the diverse resources of the Smithsonian's museums and science centers through interdisciplinary approaches. Ensuring that the Institution's vast collection is accessible and available to everyone was a priority for Clough and the new strategic plan. Efforts are underway to digitize millions of objects in the collection. Before his appointment to the Smithsonian, Clough was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965 and a doctorate in 1969 in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium was recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 25-26, 2015.
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- 8 min 42 sec
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