Dominican University of California Presents Lecture by Afghan Archeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi
Zemaryalai Tarzi, president of the Marin-based Association for the Protection of Afghan Archeology, will visit Dominican University of California on April 19 to talk about his work on the first official (and legal) excavation in Afghanistan following 24 years of war.
For the past three years, Professor Tarzi has been excavating a site in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, that he had began researching in 1967 and surveying in the mid-1970s before his work was halted by the Soviet invasion. In 2002, Tarzi returned to Afghanistan and started work on the first ever open-air excavation in Bamiyan. In 2003, and 2004 he found the Eastern monastery he was looking for and unearthed several Buddhist statues, of which at least one represented a Buddha confirming the existence of the monastery.
Tarzi’s work is the subject of the National Geographic Society documentary “Lost Treasures of Afghanistan” which will air on PBS May 8th on the West Coast.
The Association for the Protection of Afghan Archeology was founded by Nadia Tarzi, professor Tarzi’s daughter, in 2002 to raise awareness about the state of Afghan archeology and to promote the Afghan archaeological and cultural heritage.
For more information, please call 415-485-3236.
Dominican University of California Event Examines the Wine Business in Australia, New Zealand
Dominican University of California presents an evening of wine tasting and presentations about the wine business in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday, April 27 at 5:30 in Guzman Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Plenty of free parking is available in the Conlan Recreation Center parking lot, located at the corner of Grand and Acacia avenues.
Presentations will be made by Burke Owens, associate curator of wine for COPIA, along with Dominican University of California MBA students.
The event is sponsored by the Dominican University of California Business Association and the University’s Office of Admissions.
For more information, please call 415-485-3280 or 888-323-6763.
