Lecture: "Claiming Ancient Carthage: The Quest for Antiquities in 19th Century Tunisia" Ridha Moumni
Sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement and the Department of History
ANN: "Claiming Ancient Carthage: The Quest for Antiquities in 19th Century Tunisia," Lecture by Ridha Moumni
Lecture sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement and the Department of History
Istanbul: The Story of a City from Roman times to the Ottoman Conquest
"Istanbul: The Story of a City from Roman times to the Ottoman Conquest"
With Roberta Marin (Nasser Khalili Collection & SOAS)
on Monday 12th June 2017
at The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York (UK)
from 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Attendance by free ticket only available at http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2017/talks/instanbul-story-of-a-city/
Re: scholar's involvement in the looting & smuggling of Cambodia's antiquities
The recent New York Times article on the role of two respected US scholars in the looting of Cambodian antiquities is interesting. It reminds me that Cambodia suffered from a far more illustrious looter – André Malraux. The story, told by Steven Boswell in his highly acclaimed alternative guide to Phnom Penh, King Norodom's Head, is reproduced here: http://wp.me/p4EQSY-K.
Gerald Jackson
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
scholar's involvement in the looting & smuggling of Cambodia's antiquities
The New York Times on March 30 carried an excellent piece of investigative journalism that deserves attention -- it is another revelation of scholars legitimizing the ownership, by museums and others, of stolen and smuggled fragments of cultural heritage, in this case from Cambodia:
