[CPProt.net] Looting the Baghdad Museum

[MSN CPPnet (Ton Cremers)]

Sunday 10.16.05, The Rye Free Reading Room 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, NY 4
pm

SAFE presents Professor Elizabeth Simpson in a discussion of the state of
Iraqi archaeological sites and the trade in stolen antiquities.

Professor Simpson is a specialist in the arts and technology of the ancient
Near East and Mediterranean and has an active interest in the protection of
cultural property and archaeological sites. In 1995, she organized the
ground-breaking symposium, "The Spoils of War--World War II and Its
Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property," and,
in 2005, a conference on Iraq for the Archaeological Institute of America,
"Iraq 2004-2005: Museums, Antiquities, and Archaeological Sites."

She is a professor at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative
Arts in New York City. She is also the director of the project to restore
and reconstruct the ancient wooden furniture of King Midas and his family,
which was excavated by the University of Pennsylvania in the 1950s at the
site of Gordion, Turkey. In this capacity, she is a research associate in
the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Professor Simpson is the
recipient of many grants and awards and the author of  numerous
publications.

Following the lecture, there will be a dinner with Professor Simpson at a
local restaurant. The cost of the dinner will be approximately $25. All are
invited. For more information, contact Peter Feinman at: (914) 933-0440.