[CPSLibraries] Oriental Institute - Special Symposium

[Perez, Lisa E]

Dear Librarians - Please consider attending this special professional
development event and sharing information with interested colleagues.
Act quickly, as the first 40 teachers will receive free registration.
Six CPDUs are available.  Call the number below to register.

Thanks, Lisa Perez

 

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ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SYMPOSIUM

Looting the Cradle of Civilization: The Loss of History in Iraq

This special event takes place during the 5th anniversary of the looting
of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad.

Saturday, April 12

9:30am-4pm; Reception follows

CPDUs: 6

 

Pre-registration required.  First forty pre-registered K-12 teachers are
free, courtesy of The Center for International Studies, University of
Chicago.  Fee for all other K-12 teachers: $25.00.

Call 773-702-9507 to preregister.

The looting of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad stunned the world in
April 2003. Much less well known is the ongoing looting of
archaeological sites throughout Iraq, which poses an even greater threat
to the history of the land that gave the world its earliest writing
system, the first cities, and the concept of the rule of law.

Examine the archaeological tragedy taking place in Iraq with scholars
and experts who have experienced the situation at first hand. Hear the
latest information on the looting of the Baghdad museum, discover how
scholars are helping to protect Iraq's threatened archaeological sites,
and learn how the laws safeguarding cultural property in wartime are
being challenged in Iraq.

Symposium speakers include:
* Donny George, former director of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad
* Patty Gerstenblith, Professor, College of Law, DePaul University,
Chicago, and
  Director of DePaul's Program on Cultural Heritage Law

* McGuire Gibson, Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, University of
Chicago

*Abdulamir Hamdani, Director of Antiquities in Nasiriya Province in
southern Iraq
* John Russell, Professor of Art at Massachusetts College and former
Deputy
  Advisor to the Iraqi Minister of Culture and the Coalition Provisional
Authority
* Elizabeth Stone, Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology at SUNY
   Stonybrook University, New York.

Offered in conjunction with the special Oriental Institute  exhibit
"Catastrophe: The

Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past," this symposium also includes a
viewing of the exhibit and the world-renowned collection of ancient art
and artifacts on display in the Oriental Institute Museum's Mesopotamian
Gallery.

 

 

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Wendy Ennes

Teacher Services and e-Learning Coordinator

The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago

1155 East 58th Street

Chicago, IL 60637

 

773-834-7606 office

773-702-9853 fax

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/Museum_Ed.html

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