Video Category: Lecture

“Conquer or Die”: Boudica’s Revolt of 60-61 AD
Nearly twenty years after the Roman conquest of Britain a revolt broke out among the Iceni, a tribe ...
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Tribal Sovereignty and Indian Self-Determination
As a leader in the Native American rights movement, John Echohawk will discuss how the federal India...
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The Museum as a Revolutionary Icon
Museums have the power to respond to the present moment, exploring the contours of our humanity and ...
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The Birthplace of the Buddha and Other Failures
This talk looks at five major Buddhist sites in Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, bu...
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Becoming an UNESCO World Heritage Site
During the last 35 years Dr. C Brian Rose has had the good fortune to direct or co-direct excavation...
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Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
Historic preservation has rarely been a subject taken up by historians. In an effort to address this...
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World Heritage in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind
South Africa's Cradle of Humankind has long been a hotbed of discovery for human ancestor fossils. J...
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Teotihuacan: Rome of the Ancient Americas
Around 100 CE, a huge metropolis began to emerge in the Basin of Mexico, one the Aztecs would later ...
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Our Mountains Are Made By Hand: North American Mounds as World Heritage
A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World ...
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Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE
Howard C. and Elizabeth Watts Petersen Annual Lecture The earliest cities in the world arose in a d...
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