How do we choose to commemorate the deceased? In this diverse panel, experts present short talks on memorial portraits from five different chronological and cultural contexts. Learn about funerary portraits from Palmyra, images of the deceased on Roman sarcophagi, Renaissance domestic memorials, early American paintings and photographs, and digital remembrance today. The panelists illuminate what endures and what has changed in our lasting desire to immortalize our loved ones. Conversation and refreshments follow. Participants: Kenneth Lapatin, curator of antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum Mont Allen, assistant professor of classics and art history, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Maria DePrano, associate professor of art history, University of California, Merced Stacy Hollander, deputy director of curatorial affairs and chief curator, American Folk Art Museum, New York Jed Brubaker, assistant professor of information science, University of Colorado, Boulder