When Societies Collapse: How an Archaeologist and a Graphic Novelist Explain Big Topics to New Audiences

Eric H. Cline is professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University. His many books include 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed and After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (both Princeton). Glynnis Fawkes is the author-illustrator of Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre and Persephone’s Garden, among other books, and her comics have appeared on the website of The New Yorker. She has worked as an archaeological illustrator around the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, and she teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.

A reception will follow at the Costas Library, 2405 Boylan Hall.