Venere di Morgantina anteprima Europea ad Enna Lunedi 16 Maggio 2011 del libro dossier "Chasing Aphrodite" dei 2 giornalisti Usa Jason Felch e Ralph Frammolino, finalisti Premio Pulitzer

Venere di Morgantina anteprima Europea ad Enna Lunedi 16 Maggio 2011 del libro dossier "Chasing Aphrodite" dei 2 giornalisti Usa Jason Felch e Ralph Frammolino, finalisti Premio Pulitzer

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• i reporter investigativi del giornale quotidiano Los Angeles Times, Jason Felch e Ralph Frammolino, presentano in anteprima Europea Lunedi 16 Maggio 2011 alle 10,30 nell'Auditorium centrale (padiglione della facolta' di Ingegneria e Architettura) Università Kore di Enna, il libro dossier "Chasing Aphrodite".

• All'incontro partecipa l'assessore regionale dei Beni culturali e dell'Identità Siciliana, Sebastiano Missineo, che ha invitato i 2 giornalisti a seguire Martedi 17 maggio 2011 gli eventi per il rientro della Dea ad Aidone.

• Felch e Frammolino, finalisti al Premio Pulitzer per l'inchiesta giornalistica sui crimini ai danni della Venere di Morgantina, ricostruiscono nel loro libro in uscita in America martedi 24 Maggio 2011, con pagine inedite, le vicende sul trafugamento e la vendita illegale della statua che vide illustri ed insospettabili personaggi incontrarsi con trafficanti d'arte allo scopo di speculare sul patrimonio Archeologico siciliano.

• L'incontro rappresenta l'appuntamento clou del ciclo Culturale - Kore incontra la Dea - org. dal corso di laurea in Archeologia del Mediterraneo presieduto dall'archeologa Flavia Zisa, che proprio al Paul Getty Museum di Malibu ha lavorato per anni, contribuendo al rientro della scultura in Italia.


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• Co-authors Ralph Frammolino and Jason Felch are in central Sicily (Aidone / Enna) this week to help locals celebrate the return of the Getty’s statute of Aphrodite.

• On May 16th we’ll be giving a presentation on Chasing Aphrodite at Kore University, which is sponsoring an academic conference on the goddess.

The following day, we’ll be at the Aidone Archaeological Museum for the inauguration of the exhibition celebrating the return of the goddess.

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• In 2006, Los Angeles Times reporters Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino were Pulitzer finalists in investigative reporting for exposing the role of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and other American museums in the black market for looted antiquities.

• That reporting formed the beginning of a book, due out May 24, called “Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum.”

• The book “exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished façade of the museum business,” its website says.

• Amazon Top 500 reviewer Jill Meyer has described it as “a wonderful read about greed.”

• In a live chat at 2 p.m. EDT May 23, 2011 - Felch and Frammolino will take your questions about the business of museums, investigative reporting and book publishing. They are long-time reporters but first-time authors.

• Jason Felch
Felch’s work has been honored by the Education Writers Association, the National Association of Science Writers, the Society for Environmental Journalism, among others. Prior to joining the Times in 2004, he was a fellow at the Center for Investigative Reporting and a freelance writer.

• Ralph Frammolino
Frammolino reported for nearly 25 years at the Times, producing investigative stories that exposed a back-door admissions system at UCLA and revealed how the coroner’s office sold corneas from autopsy subjects without their survivors’ consent. Since leaving the Times in 2008, he has trained journalists in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka in investigative reporting.

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