tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post3969048437454547295..comments2024-03-20T18:15:41.858+00:00Comments on Looting Matters: George Washington University Seminars on Museums and AntiquitiesDavid Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13164794689385933318noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-72852543495897154362010-01-23T19:21:36.437+00:002010-01-23T19:21:36.437+00:00Thursday Lecture in DC: There was talk about what ...Thursday Lecture in DC: There was talk about what James Cuno refers to as 'nationalism', there was a brief comment on dinosaurs, but no talk about the issues of concern. James Cuno surely learned how to talk smoothly to an audience.<br /><br />Ironically, his dislike of what he labels 'retentious laws' is contradicting about displaying the so called Hamurabi code about the consequences of thievery, displayed in casts in many museums, east and west.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-42649929677161626032010-01-23T17:54:12.885+00:002010-01-23T17:54:12.885+00:00Let us hope that James Cuno will finally take this...Let us hope that James Cuno will finally take this opportunity to address some of the criticisms made of his views. The position he has taken of not responding to serious criticism but to continue repeating the same questionable views is a strange attitude which is at variance with all serious intellectual practices and definitely against the Western cultural tradition which many of us thought he was interested in defending.<br /> <br />Kwame Opoku.DR.KWAME OPOKUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807521316037049823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-79849450701490257642010-01-21T21:49:41.194+00:002010-01-21T21:49:41.194+00:00Oh, that book! 12 misspent euros for me last month...Oh, that book! 12 misspent euros for me last month. Greetings from Madrid.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18227022753596752202noreply@blogger.com