Title: Digger, Teacher, Soldier, Spy: Near Eastern Archaeologists In WWI
Speaker: Dr. Amy Barron, Independent Scholar
When and Where: February 25, 2021 6pm, via Zoom
Click to register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsfuiurzgvE9yooxOR9f55jsoda4tP2rp1
What do archaeologists do when the world’s at war? Surprisingly, many of them turn spy. During both the First and Second World Wars archaeologists on all sides became involved with military intelligence, turning their in-depth knowledge of the land and the peoples they studied to support their countries at war. This was no more apparent than in the Middle East where prominent archaeologists played a very political game during the First World War. Some of these names, such as T.E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, would become legendary. Others, when the war was over simply went back to their museums and their excavations.
Amy Barron holds her degrees from the University of Toronto (Ph.D.) and the University of Guelph, and her areas of specialization are Late Assyria, particularly Assyrian arms and armor, palaces and propaganda of the Neo-Assyrian kings, and the history of archaeology. Amy has taught Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Toronto, Classics at the University of Guelph, and currently teaches Museum Studies at Fleming College. She also teaches for and has served on several advisory boards for the Ontario Museum Association. Amy has worked in the museum field for over 20 years with a focus on public engagement and community partnerships. She has done fieldwork at Tel Tuneinir in Syria, as well as at Tel Jezreel in Israel and Newark Castle in England, and travelled to many countries across the globe to study archaeological remains in places as diverse as Peru, China, Mexico, and Cambodia, but her true love has always remained the Middle East.
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