“The Looting of the Iraq Museum"

by Dr. Donny George

Visiting Professor,

The State University of New York - Stony Brook

Former Director General of Iraqi Museums

Former Chairman of the

Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

7:00 pm

Rollins College, Bush Auditorium

Free and open to the public.

Free parking in Rollins/SunTrust Plaza Parking Garage

Reception Following

Who:     Dr. Donny George

What:    The Looting of the Iraq Museum

Where:  Rollins College, Bush Auditorium

               1000 Hamilton Holt Avenue

               Winter Park, Florida  32789

When:   Wednesday, October 15, 2008,  7:00 PM

The Central Florida Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is pleased to announce that it will co-host, with Rollins College’s Department of Art and Art History, a lecture on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, at 7:00 PM, at Rollins College’s Bush Auditorium located at 1000 Holt Avenue.   Dr. Donny George, former Director General of the Iraqi Museums and currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will speak on “The Looting of the Iraq Museum.”   His lecture will give a complete account of the events that led to the looting of the Iraq Museums and the archaeological sites in Iraq as well as an update on the current situation.

Professor Donny George received his Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Baghdad. He has excavated in the Bekhma Dam area, Nineveh, and Um Al Agareb and has worked on many restoration projects in Babylon, Nineveh, and Baghdad. He is the former Director General of the Iraq Museum and the former Chairman of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Professor George has played a large role in helping to protect and recover Iraqi cultural heritage after the looting of the Iraq National Museum. He was honored for his work and dedication at the Beacon Awards this past January 2008 by SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone / www.savingantiquities.org).

This lecture is free and open to the public.  Free and ample parking is available in the Rollins/Sun Trust Parking Garage (from Fairbanks, going north on Park Avenue, turn right onto Lyman Ave; the parking garage is half-way down the block on the right; bring parking stub to lecture; to get to Bush Auditorium, exit the parking garage on the Fairbanks side; cross at the pedestrian cross walk light.). There will be a reception following the lecture. 

For more information, please contact CFS, AIA President, Minda Stephens at 407-619-3616 or Dr. Robert Vander Poppen at  (407) 646-2502 or email: rvanderpoppen@rollins.edu.