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[Patty Gerstenblith]

The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, a non-profit education  organization, is pleased to invite you to the inaugural event of its Law and Cultural Heritage Speaker Series featuring Dr. András Riedlmayer of Harvard University.  The presentation, entitled "Crimes against Culture: War and the Destruction of Heritage in the Balkans and Iraq," will be held at the Georgetown University Law Center, Room 437, McDonough Hall, Washington, D.C., on Wednesday March 16, 2005, at 4 pm.  

András J. Riedlmayer directs the Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard's Fine Arts Library. A specialist in the history and culture of the Balkans, he has spent the past decade documenting the systematic destruction of historic architecture, libraries, archives and other cultural heritage during the wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Iraq.  He has testified about his findings as an expert witness in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

For more information about the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, please visit:  www.culturalheritagelaw.org.  This event is free and open to the public.

Patty Gerstenblith
Professor, DePaul University
President, Lawyers' Committee for
 Cultural Heritage Preservation