“Responsible Stewards” of Classical Antiquities?

U.S. museums were not founded with the intention of building large collections reflecting the history and culture of classical societies such as Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Only later, with the combined interest of trustees and private donors, did most museums accept classical archaeology as an academic pursuit. In this paper, I explore how museums in the American Midwest, not known for maintaining extensive classical collections, came to possess relatively large collections from classical societies. I intend in this paper to engender pragmatic lines of questioning regarding the nature of archaeological and anthropological museum studies. I specifically focus on the development of collections at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, and the Logan Museum of Anthropology in Beloit, WI.

he current scenario of museum policies in Brazil results from intense discussions and collective demands. The advances made in the government of Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, with the institutionalization of structural and legal marks of support and the implementation of public policies within the museum field, do not seem to have produced impacts and changes in practices developed by museums linked to public universities. This study aimed to understand the situation experienced by Federal University of Uberlndia's museums, above all Museu do ndio (Indian museum): its challenges and contradictions in such policies. In light of theoretical conceptions related to heritage, culture, and museum policy, this study aimed to assess whether these museums keep attuned to such indicators. It also relied on references from the fields of history, museum studies, anthropology, and sociology. The research covered a period starting in 1986 -when Federal University of Uberlndia created its first museums -and ends in 2010 -the final year of Luiz Incio Lula da Silva second government and when museums' national policy begun to be implemented. The research relied upon sources such as interviews, minutes of meetings, reports, and newspapers. The thesis presents the course of cultural, heritage, and museum development policies in Brazil to contextualize its perspectives, its setbacks, and its achievements. In addition, it shows hardships experienced by this university museums -its impasses and

The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

The Odessa Museum of Archaeology was founded in 1825 by local antiquarians. The museum's collection grew in part due to excavations of classical sites in the region, in part due to gifts and purchases from dealers in classical antiquities. Up to the Second World War the focus of the Museum's activities was classical archaeology. In the post-war period this expanded to include the whole of the ancient history of the region from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. The museum now houses one of the best collections of Classical Antiquities in the former Soviet Union and the third-ranking Egyptological collection. The museum formed from 1972 part of the Soviet Academy system and undertook fieldwork on the Lower Dniester at Bronze Age sites, as well as at classical sites such as Tyras, Nikonion, the site of the ancient Odessos, and Leuke and medieval sites such as Belgorod.

In the course of fly collecting on mountain summits in 1952, some of the commonest species taken were of the Sarcophaga “sima-idonea group.” Fourteen species of this group were recognized in the summit material, of which nine were considered to be undescribed. This revision is based on that material, plus rather limited material from other sources, primarily the U. S. National Museum, the University of Michigan Museum, the Carnegie Museum, the Emory University Museum, the Chicago Natural History Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Snow Entomological Museum of the University of Kansas, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Canadian National Collection. Valuable material was made available for study through the courtesy of Prof. Henry Dietrich and Dr. C. O. Berg, Cornell University, Mr. Wm. L. Downes, Ames, Iowa, Dr. F. M. Snyder, Baltimore, Md., and Mr. G. C. Steyskal, Grosse He, Mich. The late Professor P. W. Fattig, of Emory University, was also very helpful, and three more species were added to the Georgia list through his collecting. The writer is also indebted to the following persons for assistance in summit collecting: Mr. J. M. Seago, Mr. W. D. Sudia, Dr. H. D. Pratt, Dr. N. E. Good, and Mr. Charles Dunaphant.

The amphibian faunae of most of the Middle Americas are well known through the works of Smith and Taylor (1948Mexico), Stuart (1963Guatemala), Schmidt (1941British Honduras), Mertens (1952El Salvador), Taylor (1952, 1954, 1955, and 1958Costa Rica) and a series of small papers by Dunn between the years 1931 and 1937 which treated certain aspects of the fauna of Panama. The amphibian faunae of Honduras and Nicaragua are, in comparison, very poorly known. That these countries lack extensive and well differentiated mountainous areas further reduces the possibility of large numbers of endemic species, as is the case in Costa Rica and Mexico. Noble (1918) and Gaige, Hartweg and Stuart (1937) have provided brief reports on the fauna of Nicaragua and Dunn and Emlen (1932) and Schmidt (1933, 1936, and 1939) have paid some attention to the fauna of Honduras. This report is concerned with the anurans of Honduras, based largely upon the Archie Carr collection in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as well as lesser collections in the Chicago Natural History Museum (CNHM), Brigham Young University collections (BYU) and the Michigan State University museum collections (MSU). We are grateful to Drs. Richard G. Zweifel, Robert F. Inger, Wilmer W. Tanner and Roland Baker for the loan of material as well as Dr. Doris M. Cochran, United States National Museum (USNM), Dr. Charles F. Walker, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) and Dr. Ernest E. Williams, Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) for information on certain specimens.

By the mid-19th century, the tribal lands of the Plains Cree extended from the Manitoba border across Saskatchewan and into Alberta as far as the vicinity of Edmonton. In Saskatchewan, their territory reached south virtually to the United States border. The favorite habitats within this vast area were the major river valleys, specifically those of the Qu'Appelle, the lower

The historical catalogs of the museum collections contain a wealth of information for historians seeking to reconstruct their contents, how they were displayed and the ways in which they were used. This paper will present the complete transcription of a draft catalog that was prepared in 1797 for the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities of the University of Padua. Conserved in the university's Museum of Geology and Paleontology, the catalog was the first to be compiled of the museum, which was established in 1733 thanks to the donation by Antonio Vallisneri Jr. of his father Antonio Vallisneri Sr.'s collection of antiquities and natural history. The catalog was compiled by the custodian of the museum, the herbalist and amateur naturalist Bartolomeo Fabris. It is of great interest because it provides a record of the number and nature of the pieces conserved in the museum at a time when natural history and archeology collections were still undivided. It also provides indications as to how such collections were arranged for display in the public halls of a university at the end of the eighteenth century. Based on this catalog, with additional information drawn from other manuscript and published sources and museum catalogs from the 1830s conserved in various institutes at the University of Padua, it is possible to reconstruct the contents and layout of a significant late 18th-century natural history collection.

I am here as an interloper. Although what I laughingly call my career began in a University museum nearly twenty years ago, it is ten years since I have been out in the “world” so to speak. Some of the other gentlemen on this panel also represent non-academic institutions though none as small as the Sioux City Art Center. However, I am an interloper in a greater sense because I came into the art museum field without formal training for it. You might call me the Grandma Moses of museology—but not to my face.

Universities and university museums are faced with numerous challenges regarding access to their collections for diverse user communities. In today’s electronic age, a new model has emerged for granting online access to collections. This paper will present some challenges and successes of current solutions in use by Carleton University’s Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study Aboriginal Arts and Culture (GRASAC), the University of Pennsylvania Museum collaborative virtual exhibition Tipatshimuna and the McCord Museum, formerly administered by McGill University. The research and knowledge dissemination mandate of universities, together with the issues surrounding the repatriation of objects, online collaboration and access to collections, the digital form presents a real opportunity to benefits universities, researchers, students and the general public.

in Wroclaw have in their possession important works of Greek, Etruscan and Roman art that are remains of the extensive collection of the 19 th century. Wroclaw architect and collector Eduard Schaubert, during his stay in Greece (1830 -1850), had travelled throughout the country and gathered objects of ancient art. He also bought a few works during his travel to Italy. Thus, Schaubert collected this impressive set of 300 works of ancient art. After his death in 1861, his collection was donated to the Archaeological Museum in Breslau. Unfortunately, most of the antiques from Schaubert's collection perished after the World War II and they are now considered missing. Only 29 objects remained, among which are masterpieces of Greek bronze work, Attic and south Italian vases and architectural fragments with traces of the original polychrome. The very high artistic quality of preserved objects shows Schaubert's excellent knowledge of ancient Greek art. Luckily having survived the turmoil of the war, these artifacts have filled a major gap in Polish collections of ancient art which would have been poor otherwise. However, despite their great significance for our knowledge of ancient art, these objects have not yet been adequately elaborated. 1 Among the ancient objects kept in the National Museum in Warsaw and the University Museum in Wroclaw there exist works of Greek, Etruscan and Roman art that have been identified as remnants of the 19 th century collection of Eduard Schaubert, a German architect and collector born in Wroclaw 2 . The impressive set of antiques was collected in his numerous travels in Greece during his stay in the country between 1830 and 1850. Most of the objects from Schaubert's collection are nowadays considered missing, while its creator has also been forgotten. The situation has changed only recently thanks to the International Conference held in Berlin in 2010 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death 3 as well as to the publications by Alexander Papageorgiou-Venetas 4 and Urszula Boczuk-Dawidziuk 5 devoted to him.

Food security exists when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. Food security is built on four pillars: availability, access, utilization and stability. Food and nutrition security embraces meeting energy, protein and nutrient needs for healthy life. Food systems overlap with agricultural systems in the area of food production, but also comprise the diverse set of institutions, technologies and practices that govern the way food is marketed, processed, transported, accessed and consumed. The food system activities are grouped into four categories: producing food, processing and packaging food, distributing and retailing food, and consuming food. The review paper aims at highlighting the connections and linkages between food sustainability and food security. There are very strong linkages between food and nutrition security, responsible environmental stewardship and greater fairness in food management. They intersect in agricultural and food systems at the global, national and local levels. Today, the main concern for the food and agricultural sector is to provide simultaneously enough food, in quantity and quality, to meet the nutritional needs of a growing population and to conserve natural resources for future generations. A sustainable food system supports food security, makes optimal use of natural and human resources, is culturally acceptable and accessible, environmentally sound and economically fair and viable, and provides the consumer with nutritionally adequate, safe, healthy and affordable food for present and future generations. Changes in both food consumption and food production are important to ensure more sustainable food systems and to achieve food and nutrition security in the Mediterranean region. Since diets sustainability is of paramount importance for achieving food and nutrition security, there is an urgent need to design and implement appropriate policies to improve the economic, environmental and social sustainability of the current food consumption patterns.

It is with great pleasure that we present to you this fascinating collection of 35 articles, essays and memoirs dedicated to Professor Ewdoksia Papuci‑Władyka, one of the most eminent Polish classical archaeologists, long-standing head of the Department of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University and Visiting Professor at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Professor Papuci-Władyka is widely known and highly respected in the archaeological community, in Poland, and around the world. The presented collection of texts and entries in the Tabula Gratulatoria attests to this. During her prolific career Professor Papuci-Władyka has been setting directions and trends in Polish research on classical civilisations by initiating new projects and excavations at important sites such as Koshary in Ukraine, Halasarna on the Greek island of Kos, and Nea Pafos in Cyprus. Working in Cyprus, she has developed a unique project combining the potential of the best Polish universities – the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw – with contributions from other universities, thus creating one of the most active Polish expeditions in the Mediterranean basin. Her efforts in this area culminated in the first archaeological excavation in Greece to be led by Jagiellonian University.

Cinematic Visions of the SephardicJew A CHANGE OF SCENE, A CHANGE OF FORTUNE: CINEMATIC VISIONS OF THE SEPHARDIC JEW "Aboltar cazal, aboltar mazal"l by linda C. Ehrlich linda C. Ehrlich, associate professor at' Case Western Reserve University, has published articles and reviews about cinema in East-West Film Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Post Script, Literature/Film Quarterly, Cinemaya , Japan Forum CinemaJournal, and Film Quarterly, among others. She has co-edited CinematicLandscapes, an anthology of articles on the interface between the visual arts and the cinemas of China and Japan (University of Texas Press, 1994). In addition to her publications on Asian cinema, she has written on the films of Spanish directors Victor Erice and Carlos Saura. 1 The term "Jewish film" has tended to be associated with Yiddish films or with contemporary productions from the state of Israel. Only recently have special film exhibitions revealed another kind ofJewish film-feature films and documentaries about the Sephardic Jew.2 What better way to explore this rich historical and cultural tradition than through the subtlety lA Ladino saying which can be translated as "A change of scene, a change of fortune" (from Moshe Lazar, The Sephardic Tradition: Ladino and Spanish-jeUJish Literature [New York: Norton, 1972], p. 145). 2Note, for example, the exhibition by The Film Society of Lincoln Center entitled "The Other Jews: Sephardim in the Cinema" (December 1992), and "Cultural Identities in Transition: A Sephardic Film Festival" (April 1995), both co-sponsored by the Sephardic House and the Yeshiva University Museum. The National Center for Jewish Film has also organized a travelling film series entitled "A Modem Lens on Sephardic Jewry." 2 SHOFAR Winter 1997 Vol. 15, No.2 and intensity of the cinema? As anthropologist Harvey E. Goldberg notes: "Today, Sephardi Jewry constitutes less than 20 percent of world Jewry, but the importance of Sephardi communities within the modern Jewish world outweighs their numerical value.,,3 The story of the Sephardic Jew is one of dramatic ascents to positions of political and economic strength, often followed by crises. This large group ofJews, expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century, subsequently made their homes throughout the Mediterranean region, farther north to Holland and England, and even over to the New World.4 Once the ascendent force in world Jewry, their influence lessened by the midseventeenth century. During World War II, whole communities were wiped out by the Nazis. Israel's subsequent rise to power led to a rise in antiSemitism among the non-Jewish populations in various.lands where the Sephardim had established communities. The story of the Sephardic Jew reveals a strong inner core of continued , if often hidden, tradition. The act of hiding has at once diffused and intensified their sense of identity. Known for their deep religiosity and yet flexibility in the face of surrounding cultures, the Sephardim have preserved a powerful sense of communal memory. These exiles carried with them a distinctive language. and set of religious traditions which carried over to the details of their daily life and their music. How can a filmmaker depict such a world in which the past colors so many present encounters? Many of the documentary films on this topic focus on a Sephardic woman as the unique carrier of tradition, and as a unique spokesperson for a rich past. Another common element is that many of the films open with a montage of still photos, as haunting faces gaze down at us from the wall. We are privileged by a view of the private life of families, with the world of memory repeatedly coming to the fore. As film critic J. Hoberman has pointed out: "... nostalgia for a vanished world is in itself a Jewish trait. Modern Jewish history is full of lost, sacred sites.,,5 The documentary films present attempts to preserve, or revive, or merely recall lives and traditions in transition. 'Sephardi and Middle Eastemjewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era, ed. Harvey E. Goldberg (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 2. 'The word "Sepharad" is mentioned in Obadiah 1:20, and is connected with the Latin name for Spain, Hispania. sJ. Hoberman, "Diaspora: Artists Invent a NewJewish Tradition," Village Voice (April 18...

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title At the origin of the Roman College Museum lies the scientific and experimental collection of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). Through the testamentary legacy of Alfonso Donnino (1651), the Museum was enriched by a collection of antiquities, portraits, rare and precious objects. Through Kircher's correspondence, the notarial documentation and Filippo Bonanni's Notizie circa la Galleria del Collegio Romano (1716), the paper presents the history and fortune of the famous museum from 1651 to the first half of the XVIII century.