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Gertrude Bell and Iraq - A Life and Legacy Conference

 

Friday, September 13, 2013 @ 11:00 am-5:00 pm

A Life and Legacy Conference: Gertrude Bell & Archaeology

Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy Conference – Gertrude Bell & Archaeology

By Ali Khadr

Session II, Day II of the Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy Conference
Gertrude Bell & Archaeology

Chair: Dr Paul Collins
Papers
Dr Mark Jackson — A critical examination of Gertrude Bell’s contribution to archaeological research in central Asia Minor
Dr Rosalind Wade Haddon — What Gertrude Bell did for Islamic Archaeology
Dr Lisa Cooper — ‘Better than any ruined site in the world’: Gertrude Bell and the ancient city of Assur

Organised by the BISI with the British Academy, in association with the Gertude Bell Archive at Newcastle University.
Media Partner: BBC History Magazine

Followed by a special presentation on the Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University
Lynn Ritchie  — A hundred dreams of Fancy’s garnered store’ — Tales of the Gertrude Bell Archive”?  (A quotation from Poems from the Divan of Hafiz).

 


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Friday, September 13, 2013

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@ 11:00 am-5:00 pm

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Conference

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10 Carlton House Terrace

London,

SW1Y 5AH

United Kingdom


, British Academy 

 

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