Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professor | The Vancouver Institute Lecture
30,000 Years of Magic: Why Magic is Still Relevant Today
Chris Gosden has interests in the history of landscape and material culture in Britain, southeast Asia, the Pacific and Siberia. He has carried out archaeological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan, Borneo and Britain. In 2018 Viking will publish his book on the history of magic and science, showing the divergence of scientifically based societies arising in cities over the last 5000 years and the magic-oriented peoples of the steppe and forest, and how modern physics may be converging with a magical view of our relationship with the universe.
November 18, 2017
8:15 pm to 9:30 pm
Lecture Hall No. 2
2194 Health Sciences Mall
Speakers
Chris Gosden, Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor