MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHES
& MODERN DEVELOPMENT
Practical Approaches
for Sustaining Restored Ecological & Cultural Landscapes
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS
Pre-Conference Open Public Panel Discussions on Issues of Human Rights, Development Policy and Scientific Restoration of the Iraqi Wetlands and Marsh Arabs
Tuesday night, 5:30 - 8:00 pm, October 26, Kimmell Center, New Yok University, Room #914, New York City
Click here to view information on this event on the Carnegie Institute web site. Click here to see a program for the event.
Hosted and sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the Environmental Conservation Education Program at New York University, and Al-Khoei Foundation (UK), in conjunction with Harvard UniversityWednesday afternoon, 4:00 - 6:30 pm, October 27,
Taubman Building, 5th floor, ABC Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street (off Elliot St), Harvard University, Cambridge. For directions please click here.
Hosted and sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School of GovernmentSpeakers for both panels:
Images of the Marshes from the Past
-Nik Wheeler, Photographer
Satellite Images of the Disappearing Marshes
-Leal Mertes, University of California
Biological Conditions of the Present Marshes
-Curt Richardson, Duke University
Plight of the Marsh Arabs and Human Rights Issues
-Baroness Emma Nicholson, AMAR
Respondent
-Edwin Theriot, Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources
Open Public Lecture on Preserving Iraq’s
Antiquities and Cultural Heritage
Speaker: John Russell, Massachusetts College of
Art
Wednesday evening (8:00 - 9:00 pm; reception to follow), October 27,
Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 485 Broadway Street, Cambridge
Hosted and sponsored by the Semitic Museum
of Harvard University and the American Schools of Oriental Research
**Two photographic exhibitions at Harvard University during the conference**
Field Photography: The Marsh Arabs of
Iraq, 1934
Rare images from the Henry Field Collection taken
during the Field Museum of Chicago's Near East Expedition in 1934
Opening Monday, October 20 (reception 5:00 - 7:00 pm), Peabody Museum,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Hosted and sponsored by the Peabody Museum
of Archeology & Ethnology at Harvard University
Click here
for more information on the exhibition or click here
to visit the Peabody Museum website.
Marsh Arab Life in the Mid-1970s
Unpublished images by Nik Wheeler, photographer
for Gavin Young's 1977 book "Return to the Marshes"
Opening October 28 (reception 7:45 - 9:00
pm), Gund Hall, Harvard University, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Hosted and sponsored by the Graduate School
of Design at Harvard University