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Thieves of Baghdad: Following the lecture, Bogdanos will be available to sign books. A dinner with the author will be held on the lower level of the LCVA at 8:00 p.m. Tickets will be available from the LCVA for $45, with registration required by October 10. Since 1988 Matthew Bogdanos has been an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, where New York tabloids describe him as a “pit bull” for his relentless prosecution of criminals such as the fifteen-year-old “Baby-Faced Butchers” for their 1997 grisly Central Park murder and rappers Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Jamal “Shyne” Barrows for their 1999 shootout. A colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, middleweight boxer, and native New Yorker, Bogdanos was raised waiting tables in his family’s Greek restaurant in lower Manhattan. He holds a classics degree from Bucknell University, a law degree and a master’s degree in classics from Columbia University, and a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marines in 1980, he served as a Judge Advocate until he left active duty to join the District Attorney’s Office, rising to Senior Homicide Trial Counsel in 1996. Recalled to active duty after losing his apartment near the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, he joined a multi-agency task force in Afghanistan and received a Bronze Star for counterterrorist operations against al-Qaeda. He then served in Iraq and the Horn of Africa as the head of that task force and received a 2005 National Humanities Medal from President George Bush for his work recovering Iraq’s priceless treasures. He has returned to the DA’s Office, where he still boxes for the New York City Police Department Widows & Orphans Charity and continues the hunt for stolen antiquities. He has delivered speeches in more than fifty cities in nine countries—including to both houses of the British Parliament—and royalties from his book Thieves of Baghdad go to the Iraq Museum. For more information on this speaker, please visit www.apbspeakers.com. Established in 1992, the Barbara L. Bishop Distinguished Lecture Series in the Visual Arts recognizes the visionary contributions of the late Barbara Bishop to Longwood University and the community. Bishop was an alumna of Longwood, a distinguished member of the Department of Art faculty from 1965 to 1990, and department chair from 1970 to 1984. The Bishop Lecture brings outstanding artists and art historians to Longwood University to promote the appreciation and knowledge of arts to the community served by the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts. If you would like to make a contribution to the Barbara L. Bishop Distinguished Lecture Series fund, please contact K. Johnson Bowles, Director of the LCVA, at 434-395-2207. The LCVA is located at 129 North Main Street in Farmville. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call 434-395-2206 or visit www.longwood.edu/lcva. ### For more information, please contact: Beth Cheuk, PR & Events Coordinator
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Part Indiana Jones, part Marine, part classics scholar, and part prosecuting attorney, Matthew Bogdanos will share his story as lead investigator on a team sent to recover antiquities looted from the Iraq National Museum. Blending detective work, scholarship, and danger into a good old-fashioned adventure story, Bogdanos is celebrated worldwide as a cultural advocate, speaker, and author of Thieves of Baghdad. He will offer a free public lecture at Jarman Auditorium beginning at 6:30 p.m. The lecture is co-sponsored by the LCVA along with the Longwood University Alumni Association, the American Democracy Project, Longwood’s History Department, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Archaeology Field School.