Pirates – A History of Piracy in Fact and Fiction with Clark Wernecke, PhD
Mondays, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Sun City Ballroom
In Person, On-Demand
Bernard Williams, an English philosopher, said “The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great- grandfather was a pirate.” The golden age of piracy, the 17th and 18th centuries, has long been a source of entertainment in books, films, and TV series. This class will take you on a voyage through piracy fact and fiction beginning with piracy in antiquity on up to modern day piracy addressing some of the personalities involved and where some of our fondest legends come from.
Clark Wernecke is the retired Project Director for the Prehistory Research Project at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the Gault School of Archaeological Research, a nonprofit dedicated to research regarding the earliest peoples in the Americas. Dr. Wernecke started his academic career with a degree in history from SMU followed by an MBA from Northwestern University, an M.A. in Anthropology from Florida Atlantic, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
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