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Pizza Talk: Laerke Recht, Visiting Post-Doc, Research Associate - International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
April 03, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talks: Rüdiger Krause, Professor - Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Institute of Archaeological Sciences
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
April 10, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Owen Doonan, Associate Professor - California State University Northridge, Department of Art: Owen Doonan, Associate Professor - California State University Northridge, Department of Ar
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
April 17, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talks: Hans Barnard, Assistant Adjunct Professor-Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Researcher-Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
April 24, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talks: Lucy Skinner, Mellon Education Resident at Buffalo State College May

May 01, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talks: Ran Boytner, Executive Director - Institute for Field Research (IFR)
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
April 12, 2013, from 3:40 pm to 3:40 pm
Pizza Talks: Matthew Canepa, Professor - University of Minnesota, Department of Art History
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
May 15, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talks: Elizabeth Barber, Research Associate - Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
May 22, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza talks: Monica Smith, Professor - UCLA Department of Anthropology
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
May 29, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Pizza Talks: Axel K. Schmitt, Associate Professor-in-residence, UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Room A222, Fowler Museum Building
June 05, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

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