"The Discovery of The Assyrian Queen's Tomb in Nimrud"
Thursday, October 29, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Northwestern University (Evanston Campus), Illinois [Chicago]
JEREMIAH AND HELEN JAMES LECTURE
ESTABLISHED IN 1999 BY HELEN JAMES SCHWARTEN WITH THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING AND SCHOLARSHIP OF BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN ASSYRIAN CULTURE.
Dr. Donny George Youkhanna received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in archaeology from the University of Baghdad, and since 2006 has been Visiting Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Stony Brook.
An Assyrian native of Al-Anbar province, Iraq, he has directed field excavation and restoration projects at a number of archaeological sites in Iraq, including Nimrud, Nineveh, Um Al-Aqareb, and Babylon. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director General of the Iraq Museums, and in the following year chaired the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Professor Youkhanna has published extensively in the field of Mesopotamian archaeology and on issues of antiquities and cultural heritage preservation, and in 2008 received the College Art Association?s Special Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has recently contributed to Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq?s Past (Oriental Institute, Chicago, 2008).
Presented by
Northwestern University
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
847-491-7463
www.wcas.northwestern.edu
http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/documents/AssyrianFinal.pdf
Thursday, October 29, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Northwestern University (Evanston Campus), Illinois [Chicago]
JEREMIAH AND HELEN JAMES LECTURE
ESTABLISHED IN 1999 BY HELEN JAMES SCHWARTEN WITH THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING AND SCHOLARSHIP OF BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN ASSYRIAN CULTURE.
Dr. Donny George Youkhanna received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in archaeology from the University of Baghdad, and since 2006 has been Visiting Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Stony Brook.
An Assyrian native of Al-Anbar province, Iraq, he has directed field excavation and restoration projects at a number of archaeological sites in Iraq, including Nimrud, Nineveh, Um Al-Aqareb, and Babylon. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director General of the Iraq Museums, and in the following year chaired the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Professor Youkhanna has published extensively in the field of Mesopotamian archaeology and on issues of antiquities and cultural heritage preservation, and in 2008 received the College Art Association?s Special Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has recently contributed to Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq?s Past (Oriental Institute, Chicago, 2008).
Presented by
Northwestern University
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
847-491-7463
www.wcas.northwestern.edu
http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/documents/AssyrianFinal.pdf
