Friends and colleagues,

Kindly join me and our guest speaker,
Dear ALAS friends,

Please join me and our guest,

Dr. Clyde Snow, Professor Emeritus

for a light  breakfast on Wednesday, November 3, 2004,

8:30 -10:00 a.m.

MacMillan Hall 212

Please rsvp, Dorothy Falke (9-8309) or [log in to unmask] by Monday,
November 1.

A pioneer in forensic law, biological anthropology and human rights,
Snow began his career at the Civil Aeromedical Institute in 1961,
where
he studied airplane crash fatalities. Since then he has served as a
consultant in more than 2,000 cases worldwide, including skeletal
confirmations of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the men who fought
in
General Custer's "last stand" in 1876, King Tutankhamun and the
victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.

He has worked extensively with Americas Watch and other human rights
groups. In Argentina, he aided in the investigation of the thousands of
men, women and children who had "disappeared" during the 1976-83 reign
of terror conducted by that country's military dictatorship. This work,
in 1984, was the first to utilize forensic science methodology in the
investigation of human rights abuses.

Snow and his teams have worked in more than two dozen countries, most
recently in Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia at one of the largest
forensic excavations dealing with war crimes.

Professor Snow will speak on "Bones of Contention: Forensic
Anthropology in the Investigation of Human Rights" at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 3, in 144  Benton Hall.

This visit to our campus is part of the Center for American and World
Cultures Speaker Series, "Homeless in the World: A Global Crisis,"
and part of the UniDiversity program. It is co-sponsored by the
department of anthropology.

To learn more about Professor Snow and his research, please visit the
Center for American and World Cultures website:
http://www.muohio.edu/cawc.  Click on "Calendar of Events", then
November 3.