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Coming and Current SMATCH USA Events
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February 20, 2008, Washington, DC, 6:30 PM
The Etruscan Treasures of the Vatican Museum:
a glance into the art and culture of ancient Italy during the first millenium BC

Made possible by a grant from
            The San Giacomo Charitable Foundation
  
Maurizio Sannibale, curator of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums.
 
Dr. Stella Nunziante Cesaro, Italian National Research Council (CNR)
 
Location of the conference:  Italian Cultural Institute, 
Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington DC 20008  (map), in the Embassy auditorium.

The presentation will be in Italian with some elements consecutively translated into English.  A printed English translation of the presentation also will be available.

Click here for more information.
Click here to see the notice of this conference from the Archaeological Institute of America.

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February 21, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6:30 PM
Etruscan Treasures of the Vatican Museum (see above)
With support from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Italian Studies  "Etruscan Treasures" will be presented at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (map), Classroom 2.

For more information, click here.
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March through May 2008, Arlington Virginia
Repeat of the Ancient Egypt Course listed below.
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September through November 2007, Arlington Virginia

Ancient Egypt
Nine week lecture/class series

A university level (non-credit) course at the Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute (ALRI) on Ancient Egypt taught by SMATCH Board member Tom Wukitsch.  Registration with ALRI and ALRI course fees applicable.  This is part of a continuing series of semester-long courses also including courses on  Ancient Rome, Medieval Rome, Renaissance Rome, Pompeii/Vesuvius, Ancient Rome in the Movies and Carthage/North Africa.http://www.smatch-international.org/

Tom Wukitsch teaches Ancient History at the Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute and is a member of the board of SMATCH.  His fields of specialization are Archeometry, Roman Archeology, and Ancient History.

(ALRI is affiliated by agreement with George Mason University (GMU), Arlington Public Schools' Career, Technical, and Adult Education Program (APS), and the Elderhostel Institute Network, Inc.)
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November/December 2007, Egypt

SMATCH Board member Tom Wukitsch led a fifteen day tour of Egypt, as a follow-on to the ALRI Ancient Egypt course listed above.  The tour was sponsored by the ALRI Travel Club.  Images from the study tour are now on the Internet at http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRI2007EgyptTrip.html