#  Harvard Science Book Talk: Annalee Newitz, in conversation Arkady Martine, "Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 21, 2021** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

 



 

Sort    **Where** 

  Online: [https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual\_event\_annalee\_newitz/](https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_annalee_newitz/) 

    **When** 

  April 21, 2021 @7:00PM 

    **Organization/Sponsor** 

  Harvard Division of Science, Harvard Library, and Harvard Book Store 

    **Speaker(s)** 

  Annalee Newitz and Arkady Martine 

    **Cost** 

  free 

    **Contact Info** 

  [science\_lectures@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu) 

 



 In *Four Lost Cities*, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.

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 **Annalee Newitz**, a contributing opinion writer for the *New York Times*, is a founder of *io9* and former editor-in-chief of *Gizmodo*. They are the author of *Scatter, Adapt, and Remember* and the novels *Autonomous* and *The Future of Another Timeline*.

 **Arkady Martine** is the Hugo Award-winning author of *A Memory Called Empire*. She is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She is currently a policy advisor for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, where she works on climate change mitigation, energy grid modernization, and resiliency planning. Under both names, she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda, and the edges of the world.

   ![Photos of Annalee Newitz and Arkady Martine; Newitz book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum7191/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/division-of-science/files/newitz-mail.png?itok=vmVTA2ZD) 

 

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