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An Archaeologist, World War II and Prehistoric Thailand

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, United States

Dr. Cyler Conrad (University of New Mexico) The popular Hollywood film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, portrays an important series of events for prisoners of war during World War II in Thailand, also known as the infamous China-Burma-India theater of conflict. While the film’s creative story garnered acclaim and praise after its release in […]

The Art of Food in Ancient Egypt

TBD Trinity University, San Antonio, United States

When modern observers think of ancient Egyptian food, they will usually come up with an image of the deceased seated in front of a pile of mysterious objects. Others may […]

Synoikismos: The Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities

Universite de Montreal, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Room C-1017-02 3150, rue Jean Brillant, Montreal, QC, Canada

In-person lecture by Bradley Ault Following the Late Bronze Age “collapse” of Mycenaean civilization (ca. 1200 BCE), the formative Greek states and the palace centers that spawned them had vanished. What emerged in their wake over the course of the following centuries was the city-state or polis, a system with a remarkably different pedigree. Bottom-up […]