SAFE | Saving Antiquities for Everyone co-sponsors a lecture, discussion,
and book signing by Matthew Bogdanos.
Monday, December 5, 2005 at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, 163 East
Walton Place, Chicago IL. 5:30-Cash bar, 6:00-Lecture.
$20: SAFE and CCFR Members
$30: Nonmember
Reserve tickets NOW at www.ccfr.org. For more information visit
http://www.savingantiquities.org/MBogdanos.htm or call 312-726-3860. For
registration questions, call 312-821-7529.
Cosponsored by ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity; Archaeological Institute of
America; Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of
Illinois at Chicago; and SAFE | Saving Antiquities for Everyone.
Matthew Bogdanos recounts his adventures, exposes truths about the
international art and antiquities market, and discusses missing pieces and
the ongoing looting of archaeological sites in Iraq.
A native New Yorker, Bogdanos is a colonel in the Marine Reserves and holds
a law degree and a master's degree in Classical Studies from Columbia
University, a master's degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War
College, and is a. recipient of the 2005 National Humanities Medal. He
has been an Assistant DA in Manhattan since 1988 and will return to the DA's
Office in 2006, where he will head New York¹s first antiquities task force.
³Thieves of Baghdad² was recently published by Bloomsbury and will be
available for purchase at the events. Royalties will be donated to the
Iraq National Museum.
SAFE | Saving Antiquities for Everyone creates educational programs and
media campaigns to raise public awareness about the importance of
preserving cultural heritage worldwide. SAFE is a coalition of
professionals in communications, media, and advertising working alongside
experts in the academic, legal and law enforcement communities. SAFE has
no political affiliations and is sponsored by the New York Foundation for
the Arts (NYFA), a 501(c)(3) corporation.
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