Lectures on Tap - Atlantis: A History of the World's Most Famous Lost City

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🧠 Lecture: "Atlantis: A History of the World's Most Famous Lost City"

🎙️ Speaker: Daniel Alvarado

Atlantis is everywhere—movies, conspiracy theories, archaeology, comic books, and mystical lore—but very little of it comes from Plato’s original tale. Join us for a fascinating evening as Daniel Alvarado uncovers how a short story written over 2,300 years ago evolved into the world’s most famous lost civilization.

From the age of exploration after Christopher Columbus, to nineteenth-century occultists, to modern science fiction and pseudoarchaeology, this lecture traces how each era reinvented Atlantis to mirror its own fears, fantasies, and obsessions. Along the way, we’ll encounter lost continents, mystical “root races,” underwater ruins, and the surprising possibility that the ancient Greeks themselves may never have believed Atlantis was real at all.

Daniel Alvarado is a PhD candidate in History and holds an MA in History and Museum Studies from Claremont Graduate University. He has worked as a museum public programs consultant at the Getty Villa and has taught Greek art, archaeology, and ancient history across the Claremont Colleges. His research focuses on Hellenistic Asia Minor and the intellectual history of the Atlantis story.

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Agenda

7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key. Please note that this venue has CATS on site!

7:55 PM – Host introduction

8:00 PM – Lecture begins

8:45 PM – Audience Q&A

9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

9:30 PM – Wrap up.