WORCESTER, Mass. – Magnus T. Bernhardsson, assistant professor of history at Williams College, will give a talk titled “Negotiating History: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq” on April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.
Bernhardsson is author of Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq (University of Texas Press, 2006). The book records the history of archaeology in Iraq and examines the link that has emerged between archaeology and Iraqi nationalism.
He received a bachelor’s degree in 1990 from the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, a master of arts in religious studies from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. His research focuses on modern Iraqi history, U.S.-Iraqi relations from 1900-2000 and archaeology and nationalism in the modern Middle East.
Bernhardsson was an adjunct professor at Holy Cross in the spring of 1999.
The event is sponsored by the visual arts department.
‘Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq’ Subject of Talk at Holy Cross
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