Water: A Vital Part of Life in Angkor - Stay Curious, Utah!
Water is a vital resource that helps sustain life both here in Utah and in the ancient empire of Angkor. Join historian ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball to learn about why water was so important to the civilization in Ankgor and what it can teach us about how we use water today. We will have a Q&A for 3rd-6th and 6th-12th graders. We will also have a water-themed storytime reading for our younger learners with an NHMU educator.
Recorded Q&A with Historian Dr. ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball - February 13, 2023
Dr. ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball is a historian at the University of Utah, where she studies trade, art, and culture in Southeast Asia. She has lectured extensively on the region and has traveled widely within it. Dr. Lowey-Ball's work mostly focuses on the period before the year 1600; most recently, she has worked on a book about the Malay city of Melaka in the 1400s and an article on the relationships between Hinduism, Buddhism, folk religion, and ideas about money in Southeast Asia in the 1200s. Because of the multinational and multicultural nature of many early Southeast Asian cities, Dr. Lowey-Ball writes about ethnic Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Italians, and Portuguese, in addition to her primary work on people from Southeast Asia itself.