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Blockchain Basics / Moderator: Vanessa Grellet, Executive Director, ConsenSys & Co-Founder of Blockchain for Social Impact

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Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy

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Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for centralized institutions like banks or governments to facilitate trade, evolving age-old models of commerce and finance into something far more interesting: a distributed, transparent, autonomous system for exchanging value.

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The Tokenized Future / Moderator: Yorke Rhodes, Co-Founder Blockchain, Microsoft & Co-Founder of Blockchain for Social Impact

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Will 'BitchCoin' Offer Artists a New Way to Make a Living?

Information Overload Is Stopping Us From Seeing the Truth

The Non-Fungible Token Bible: Everything you need to know about NFTs

How will US money laundering crackdown actually impact the art market?

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Tokens have taken the world and media by storm with not only businesses issuing their own digital assets, but also famous celebrities like Akon and Manny Pacquiao!

In this webinar we:

Introduce you to the concept of tokens and tokenization

Cover the benefits of tokenizing an asset

Review the pitfalls and regulatory concerns

Teach you how to create your own token on Ethereum

Outline use cases such as decentralized finance & business

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Tokens have taken the world and media by storm with not only businesses issuing their own digital assets, but also famous celebrities like Akon and Manny Pacquiao!

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What is a Crypto Wallet? / Moderator: Shailee Adinolfi, Director, Government and Trade at ConsenSys and Gabrielle Hibbert, Graduate Student in International Sustainable Development and Technology

Read and Watch

Governments and Decentralized Identity

Blockchain and Covid-19 in Indian Country

Story from Business PayPal Raises Crypto Buying Limit to $15K/Week for ‘Eager’ Customers

How blockchain technology could revolutionize the art market

Signe Pierce looks to blockchain technology to digitize the art economy

Link to webinar below - please watch this in advance!

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Cryptocurrencies and tokens are gaining prominence worldwide, mainly due to the benefits they bring over traditional FIAT currencies. Understanding new concepts of digital money, such as where it's stored and how it's managed, is critical to wider adoption. This is where "Wallets" come in.

In this webinar, we will walk you through the fundamentals of Cryptocurrency Wallets and why they are important, the different types available, and how you can keep your cryptocurrency safe.

What you'll learn in this webinar:

What Wallets are and why should you care

Different types of Wallets

How wallets work

Wallet Security

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Cryptocurrencies and tokens are gaining prominence worldwide, mainly due to the benefits they bring over traditional FIAT currencies. Understanding new concepts of digital money, such as where it's stored and how it's managed, is critical to wider adoption. This is where "Wallets" come in.

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The Future of Museums & Cultural Heritage / Moderator: Lauren Tate Baeza, Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

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The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics

Savoy-Sarr Report on African Art Restitution: A Summary

Link to the recorded conference:

Columbia University: The Restitution Debate, African Art in a Global Society

Part 1, Morning Session:

Felwine Sarr, 17:13 - 42:35

Part 2, Afternoon Session:

Ciraj Rassool, 2:47 - 27:19

Pap Ndiaye, 50:43 - 1:13:17

Marie Cecile Zinsou: 1:34:50 - 1:56:52

Smooth C. Nzewi: 1:07:46 - 1:27 (the end)

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Suggested readings and Ted talk below:
1) IBM: Blockchain For Dummies
2) Art, Antiquities and Blockchain: AABC
3) Congress Poised to Apply Banking Regulations to Antiquities Market

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Blochchain is more than just Bitcoin. Find out all the applications this emerging technology has.

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It is an honor to welcome each of you to our January Blockchain Salon along with our partners from the Art & Antiquities Blockchain Consortium (AABC), ConsenSys, and Blockchain for Social Impact.

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Week 1 Survey

Please complete no later than: Monday, January 11

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Susan de Menil
Founding Member, Art & Antiquities Blockchain Consortium (AABC)
sdemenil@fdmarch.com

Anne Bracegirdle
Founding Member, Art & Antiquities Blockchain Consortium (AABC)
annebracegirdle@gmail.com

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Dr. Cheryl Finley
Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Director
cfinley5@spelman.edu

Jasmine Wilson
Graduate Research Assistant
jasminewilson@spelman.edu

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Suggested Assignment:

Art and Blockchain: A Primer, History, and Taxonomy of Blockchain Use Cases in the Arts

Please familiarize yourself with the Suggested Reading List and review any articles of interest!

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January 6 Session Recording

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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January 13 Session Recording

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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Governments and Decentralized Identity

Blockchain and Covid-19 in Indian Country

Story from Business PayPal Raises Crypto Buying Limit to $15K/Week for ‘Eager’ Customers

How blockchain technology could revolutionize the art market

Signe Pierce looks to blockchain technology to digitize the art economy

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Shailee Adinolfi, Director, Government and Trade at ConsenSys

Shailee is Director of Government and Trade at ConsenSys, a global blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. She served as Vice President of BanQu, a blockchain-based platform for supply chain transparency. Prior to joining the blockchain industry, Shailee spent 11years leading USAID funded projects in financial inclusion, mobile money in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and 3 years in logistics and software development for US government projects.

Gabrielle Hibbert, Graduate Student in International Sustainable Development and Technology

Gabrielle is a dynamic & methodical senior analyst focusing on blockchain use-cases as alternative models of development & policy. She is an intern at ConsenSys, the Blockchain Fellow at the William and Mary Blockchain Lab, and earning her Master of Arts in Sustainable International Affairs & Management at Brandeis University.

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The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society

Please see time stamps below for the Morning and Afternoon Session videos:

Part 1, Morning Session:

Felwine Sarr, 17:13 - 42:35

Part 2, Afternoon Session:

Ciraj Rassool, 2:47 - 27:19

Pap Ndiaye, 50:43 - 1:13:17

Marie Cecile Zinsou: 1:34:50 - 1:56:52

Smooth C. Nzewi: 1:07:46 - 1:27 (the end)

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The Role of Museums, Equity + the Repatriation of African Art: Dr. Cheryl Finley in Conversation with Lauren Tate Baeza

She Is A Ep. 1: Jasmine Wilson in Conversation with Lauren Tate Baeza

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The 1990s saw the growth of the early worldwide web-Web 1.0-which at the time was primarily composed of information-bearing, static pages that users consumed. This gave way to "Web 2.0" in which 'we' the users became creators of data as well as consumers of it, a transition ushering in the social media revolution in which personalized, individualized content is the norm. Alas, this customized content requires the collection and storage of a great deal of information about a user, introducing privacy issues around the fundamental question: "who owns the data?" Web3 is an emerging structure for the next generation of the internet that offers an answer to that question, and a solution to the problem of data ownership through decentralization, transparency, and self-sovereignty.

In this webinar, we will walk you through the basics of Web3, with a focus on the role Ethereum could play, and how you can start developing for the decentralized world.

What you'll learn in this webinar:

An Overview of Web3

Writing Smart Contracts & Current Development Tools

Peer-to-peer networks & The Emerging Web3 Ecosystem

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Lauren Tate Baeza was recently appointed as the Fred and Rita Richman curator of African art at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA.

In her new role, Baeza will organize exhibitions and programs and manage the museum’s collection of more than 1,100 African objects. Dating from ancient times to the present, the holdings reflect the rich history and diverse cultures of the continent.

A curator and Africanist with experience working with museums and international aid organizations, Baeza has served as the director of exhibitions at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta since 2018.

Concurrent with her tenure at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (2018-2020), Baeza has also served as curator of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, which contains about 10,000 works, and manager of the James Allen and John Littlefield Collection, which is known for its expansive cache of lynching imagery.

Previously, she was executive director of Atlanta’s APEX Museum. The Black history museum was founded in 1978 and its name stands for the African American panoramic experience.

Baeza was born in Atlanta. She earned a master of arts degree in African studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); a bachelor of arts degree in Africana studies with a cultural studies concentration from California State University, Northridge; and a certification in curatorial studies from Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

Beyond her curatorial work, Baeza has first-hand experience in East Africa. She has worked on environmental and community development initiatives in Kenya and Uganda and has also lectured and taught seminars at the Nafasi Academy in Tanzania.

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January 21 Session Recording

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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January 27 Session Recording

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.