The West: A New History of an Old Idea

Alois Wagner Saal im C3 - Centrum für Internationale Entwicklung Sensengasse 3, Wien, Austria

Book Presentation and Discussion with Naoíse Mac Sweeney.

Washington, Library of Congress. Sixteen bronze statues of venerable men, meant to represent the birth of „Western civilization,“ look down upon historian and archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney. Where does she, as a woman from a migrant background, find her place in this narrative?