Past Programs & Events

Highlights of a Long Career

Exhibitions

  • 2006 Contributions to the exhibition on Technologies of Writing, Harry Ransom Center, Austin
  • 1998 Legacy of the Middle East, bi-lingual Arabic/English Photo Exhibition on the Occasion of the Centennial of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Saud. Opening at Flawn Research Center, UT, Austin, April 19, Opening at the Jeddah Historical Preservation Department, Jeddah Saudi Arabia, June 15, 1980 Consultant to the travelling exhibition “Sign, Symbol and Script,” organized by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Shown at the Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, February-April 1984
  • 1978 Guest Curator for “Ancient Persia – The Art of an Empire,” University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin. Also shown at the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore, Maryland, May 6-June 17, 1978
  • 1976 Guest Curator, “Locks from Iran: Pre-Islamic to Twentieth Century,” Bicentennial Exhibition of Persian Art.
  • 1975-1976 “Images for Eternity,” Egyptian art from the Brooklyn Museum
  • 1975 Guest Curator for “The First Civilization – The Legacy of Sumer,” University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin. Also shown at The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April -May 1975
  • 1965-1969 Permanent exhibitions of Near Eastern Collections, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

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Symposia and Lecture Series

  • 1989 Coordinator, Fifth Annual Meeting of the Language Origins Society, The University of Texas at Austin, Flawn Academic Center
  • 1989 “The Origin of Visible Language in the New World,” Symposium, Fifth Annual Meeting of the Language Origins Society, The University of Texas at Austin
  • 1978 “Ancient Persia – The Art of an Empire,” series of eight lectures on Persian art in conjunction with the exhibition “Ancient Persia – The Art of an Empire”
  • 1976 “Early Technologies,” symposium in conjunction with the exhibition “Locks from Iran: Pre-Islamic to Twentieth Century”
  • 1975-1976 “Immortal Egypt,” series of nine lectures in conjunction with the exhibition “Images for Eternity – Egyptian Art from the Brooklyn Museum”
  • 1975 “The Legacy of Sumer,” series of eleven lectures in conjunction with the exhibition “The First Civilization – The Legacy of Sumer”

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Films

  • 2008 The Writing Code, Program 1 – The Greatest Invention – PBS, interview with Norman Berns.
  • 2004 Interview with Tamara Bodenman for a BBC documentary “Story of 1”
  • 2003 Interview with Soleiman Sharifpour, Tehran, Iran, for a film on ancient potteries.
  • 1999 “Secrets of the Stone Age,” Granada Television, Manchester, UK, Bill Lyons, producer, Aired on BBC, January 10.
  • 1990 Interview included in Out of the Past, An Introduction to Archaeology, (The Learning Channel, 1993)
  • 1980 Interview included in The Royal Archives of Ebla. Milberg Productions (PBS 1980)
  • 1980 Interview included in Playback Associates, Search for Solutions (PBS 1980)

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Television Interviews

  • 1999 VR News at 9.00, with Habib Battah (November 22)
  • 1999 Humanistika,” Radio-Televizija Slovenija, with Jadran Sterle.
  • 1996 KAVU, Victoria, Texas.
  • 1992 “Discover” Disney Channel, with Les Guthmann.
  • 1989 “The Nature of Things,” with Richard Longley, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  • 1978 “Science Magazine,” with David Suzuki, Canadian Broadcasting Company
  • 1978 “The Carolyn Jackson Show,” KTUV
  • 1978 “The Donna Axum and Cactus Pryor Show,” KTBC
  • 1978 “Ancient Persia,” Videotape, Austin Community Television Program
  • 1977 “To Tell the Truth,” NBC Television, New YorK
  • 1976 “Pharaohs, Sphinxes and Gods: On the Human Form in Egyptian Art,” Austin Community Television Program
  • 1975 “Images for Eternity,” On Camera, KLRN-TV, The University of Texas at Austin

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Radio Interviews

  • September 7, 2017 “The Power of the Pen,” interview by Nauman Hadi and Raza Ahmad, The Voice of Islam, London.
  • Jan. 2003 “The Book and the Spade,” WNWC Madison, WI, with Gordon Grover.
  • Feb. 4, 2000 KUSU, National Public Radio, Logan, Utah, with Lee Austin.
  • Apr. 25, 1999 “Sight and Sound,” National Public Radio
  • Apr. 15, 1999 “Long Horn Profile,” with Olive Graham, Austin, Texas, KUT.
  • Jan. 19, 1994 “As it Happens,” with Peter Downie, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Canada.
  • June 9, 1993 “Around Austin,” with Bob Buckalew, KMFA, Austin, Texas.
  • Feb 12, 1992 “Forum,” with Olive Graham, Austin, Texas, KUT.
  • Dec 2, 1992 “Book Show,” with John Walsh, New York, Metropolitan Area, WRHU, Long Island.
  • Nov 7, 1992 “UT Week Review,” with Michael Herdisky, Austin, Texas.
  • Sept. 18, 1990 “Tokens and Writing,” Dritte Program, Paderborn, Germany.
  • Mar. 21, 1989 “Science Up-Date,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, with Bob Hirshon, Mutual Broadcasting System, New York.
  • Jan 29, 1987 “Abstract Counting,” Deutsche Welle, with Clive Freeman, Berlin.
  • Mar. 8, 1985 “Quirks and Quarks,” with Jay Ingram, Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
  • Apr. 11, 1983 KUT-FM, Austin, “The Inquiring Mind,” with Cathy Glover.
  • Feb 17, 1981 WXPN-FM Radio, Philadelphia, Pa., “Mountain Moving Day” with Diane Trombley
  • Oct 10, 1980 “Earthwatch,” with David Suzuki Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
  • Mar. 30, 1978 WHA, Wisconsin, interviewed by Harvey Black
  • Feb 28, 1978 KUT-FM, Austin, “Austin Lively Arts,” with Nancy Kaufmann
  • Oct 28, 1977 KUT-FM, Austin, “The Inquiring Mind,” with Glynis Smith
  • Apr. 14, 1977 KUT-FM, Austin, “The Next Two Hundred Years,” with Rex Weir
  • Dec. 1974 KUT-FM, Austin, “The Legacy of Sumer,” with Gail Moriaty
  • Nov. 1974 KUT-FM, Austin, “The Arts Out There,” with Peter Garvie

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