{"id":80673,"date":"2022-09-26T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=80673"},"modified":"2022-09-26T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:47:10","slug":"upcoming-talk-considers-ancient-modern-war-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/09\/upcoming-talk-considers-ancient-modern-war-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming talk considers ancient, modern war memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A talk hosted by Brock University\u2019s Department of Classics and Archaeology will explore how commemoration shapes and reflects a society\u2019s attitude toward war.<\/p>\n<p>Guest speaker Matthew Sears will present \u201cWar Memorials, Then and Now\u201d on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 11:30 a.m. His talk will explore the role that commemoration plays in determining whether a society is likely to fight more or fewer wars in the future. Discussing ancient and modern war memorials, Sears will encourage listeners to think about memorials in new ways and to conceive better ways to commemorate war dead.<\/p>\n<p>Sears, Professor with the Classics and Ancient History Department at the University of New Brunswick, specializes in the study of ancient warfare and society. His work has appeared in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> and <em>Maclean\u2019s<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a speaking tour organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cac-scec.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classical Association of Canada<\/a>, the free talk will be held in Brock\u2019s Global Commons (IC104) in the International Centre from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk hosted by Brock University\u2019s Department of Classics and Archaeology will explore how commemoration shapes and reflects a society\u2019s attitude toward war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":80674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37],"tags":[1583,11446,384,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80675,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80673\/revisions\/80675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}