Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #32 (4/29/05)

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Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)

Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar
Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden)
"Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of Art in Creating and Destroying Identities"

*Wed,, May 4, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Diana Stein (Birkbeck College, University of London)
"The Sacred Tree and Winged Disk at Nuzi: The Background of Two Imperial Motifs"
A reception for the speaker follows the lecture
For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631) <davis4@fas.harvard.edu>

Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"

Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
"Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance?  Changes in the
Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD"

LECTURE CANCELLED:
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word in Greek culture"

Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
See Appendix for details


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Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"

The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an illustrated lecture on
the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of which is still missing
today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the objects damaged during
the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing. Dr. George will also
talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and
the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of
this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.

Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to
the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the
basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the elevator
to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first
floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted
entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the
Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic Museum
at Harvard.