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Workshop: “The Threat to Iraq’s Cultural Heritage – Current Status and Future Prospects” (July 23, 2005)


List of Speakers and Papers

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.
McGuire Gibson (University of Chicago):
“Introduction: The Archaeology of Iraq two years after the War--an overview”

9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Müller-Karpe, Michael (Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Mainz):
“Legal or Illegal - Can we Afford a Market for (Un-)Excavated Objects?”  (download paper)

link to statement presented at workshop

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
Joanne Farchakh-Bajjali (Beirut):
“Cultural Heritage condemned to Destruction--the looting of archaeological sites in Southern Mesopotamia”
   (paper read by McGuire Gibson)


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10:45 - 11:15 a.m.: coffee break

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11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Paola Negri-Scafa (ENEA) and Salvatore Viaggio (Laboratorio di Assiriologia, Università di Pisa)
“The Contribution of the Italian D-R Project to the Preservation of Iraq’s Cultural Heritage”

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Stephen H. Savage (Arizona State University), Gaetano Palumbo (World Monuments Fund, Paris), and Neville Agnew (Getty Conservation Institute, L.A.):
“Documenting Cultural Heritage Sites in Iraq with an Integrated ArcGIS/MSAccess/SQL Server Database”

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Roberto Parapetti (Director of the Iraqi-Italian Centre for the Restoration of Monuments) and Carlo Lippolis (University of Torino):
“The Contribution of the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino to the Reconstruction of Iraq's Cultural Heritage”

12:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Bonnie Magness Gardiner and Robert Wittman (FBI Art Theft Program):
“The New FBI Art Crime Team and Iraq”


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1:00 - 2:30 p.m.: reception in Cloister Club

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