Treat yourself to a night at Café Galt – designed to educate, entertain and enrich! Explore and discuss current exhibits and ideas, take in film screenings, workshops, lectures and other unique experiences. Second Wednesday monthly.
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Galt
Museum Virtual Tour
Click on icon above to tour the Galt Museum & Archives. Select a room from the pulldown menu on the bottom left hand side. Use controls to move up, down or left and right. This virtual tour requires QuickTime. |
Torture in the Contemporary World and the Lucifer Effect: Why Good People Become Evil
Torture was commonly used in the Middle Ages, a barbarous, bloody time. Castles were built with their own torture chambers. Different types of torture were used depending on the person's social status and rank to extract confessions and gain the names of accomplices. The use of torture is not at all surprising in the historical context. But what about torture in the contemporary world?
Mary Kosta, Coordinator of Amnesty International Lethbridge Action Circle, will give an overview of Amnesty International priority concerns about torture and an update based on the 2007 Annual Report on which countries are using torture, and Mark Sandilands, Professor Emeritus in Psychology, University of Lethbridge, will speak on the psychology of torture.
Silent Voices
From Gwerful Mechain, who wrote erotic poetry in 15th Century Wales, to Hildegard von Bingen to Mildred Dobbs who worked 39 years without taking a day off, to Eliza Henrietta McMinn Burkitt whose obituary tells us everything about her husband but does not even give her full name - vignettes and stories of women of the Middle Ages and women of the not so distant past hailing from southwestern Alberta will be shared.
Chivalry & Crusading in the Medieval World
Images of chivalrous knights and pious crusaders riding out from their castles to do battle against their enemies are emblematic of medieval society and a staple of everything from Hollywood movies to children's colouring books. How closely do popular images conform to what historians know? Were knights really as chivalrous, and crusaders as fanatical as we make them out to be?
Professor David J. Hay explores the myths and realities of Medieval warfare by tracing the development of the concepts of chivalry and the crusade from their origins in the early Middle Ages to their full flowering in the age of Richard the Lionhearted. Dr. Hay concludes by considering the modern relevance of the long history of warfare between the Christian and the Muslim worlds.
David J. Hay is a professor of medieval history at
the University of Lethbridge. He has published several articles on women,
violence, chivalry and crusading in medieval society, and his first book,
The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115, is now
being published by Manchester University Press.
