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Lecture Series │ Film Series │ Family Activity Day
Lecture Series
Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collection
September 6, 2013 │ 5 p.m. │ Willamette University College of Law │ Paulus Lecture Hall
Dr. Trudy Kawami, Director of Research at the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in New York and co-curator of Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections, will present an illustrated lecture on the divine, human, and animal realms in the art and architecture of the ancient Near East.
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
September 12, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center │ Hudson Concert Hall
Dr. Brian Fagan, one of the foremost archaeologists in the United States and the author of over 60 books on the history and theory of archaeology, will present an illustrated lecture on the heroic era of Mesopotamian archaeology (when every excavator had to carry a gun), and the American discovery of the ancient Near East in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Gifts for the Gods: Sumerian Art from the Temple
September 23, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Willamette University College of Law │ Paulus Lecture Hall
Dr. Jean Evans, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and author of The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple, will present an illustrated lecture on Sumerian mythology and religious beliefs as reflected in the votive sculptures, plaques, and other items found in Sumerian temples.
King of the Four Quarters of the World: The Art and Architecture of Assyrian Kingship
October 10, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Willamette University College of Law │ Paulus Lecture Hall
Dr. Marian Feldman, Associate Professor of Art History and Near Eastern Studies at The Johns Hopkins University and author of Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE, will present an illustrated lecture on the Assyrian concept of kingship as reflected in the complex visual narratives carved on palace walls.
Syria and the Levant: Life in the Lands of the Hebrew Bible
October 24, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Willamette University College of Law │ Paulus Lecture Hall
Dr. Ronald Wallenfels, Adjunct Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and a consultant in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will present an illustrated lecture on daily life in the ancient Syria and the Levant from the fourth to the first millennium BCE.
Animals in Ancient Iranian Art, Culture and Thought
November 7, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Willamette University College of Law │ Paulus Lecture Hall
Dr. Holly Pittman, Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, curator in the Ancient Near Eastern section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and co-curator of the 1998 exhibition Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, will present an illustrated lecture on animals in ancient Iranian art, culture, and thought.
Film Series
Death on the Nile
October 1, 2013│ 7:30 p.m. │ Hallie Ford Museum of Art │ Roger Hull Lecture Hall
A wealthy British heiress is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband. Hercule Poirot, on vacation in Egypt, investigates (color, 98 minutes).
Murder in Mesopotamia
October 15, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Hallie Ford Museum of Art │ Roger Hull Lecture Hall
While Hercule Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters (color, 100 minutes).
Appointment with Death
October 29, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Hallie Ford Museum of Art │ Roger Hull Lecture Hall
While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in Syria in 1937, overbearing, abusive Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death. Hercule Poirot investigates (color, 80 minutes).
Murder on the Orient Express
November 12, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Hallie Ford Museum of Art │ Roger Hull Lecture Hall
Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the famous Orient Express en route from Istanbul to Paris (color, 89 minutes).
Family Activity Day
October 12, 2013 │12-4 p.m. | Hallie Ford Museum of Art | Maribeth Collins Lobby
Join education curator Elizabeth Garrison, Salem artists Sonia Allen and Helen Nute Wiens, and CASA coordinator April Miller as they guide parents and children through a variety of art-making and archaeological activities related to the exhibition. Children will learn about cylinder seals, repoussé and chasing, and a number of different archaeological practices and techniques.