2023-2024 Archaeology Seminar Series
Archaeology Spring 2024 Seminar
Brought to you by Dr. Bob Muir and Dr. Ross Jamieson with Nikki Simon, Levi Bonner, and Gemma Rance.
All seminars are held in person in the Archaeology Seminar Room, SWH 9152 from 3:30-5:00pm. If you’re able, join us in person for the seminar and afterwards in the Biercraft Pub or the Archaeology Lounge.
Date | Speaker | Title |
Thursday, January 11, 2024 | Dr. David Burley, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | Rescheduled. |
Thursday, January 18, 2024 | Andreu Arino I Prats, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | Rescheduled. |
Thursday, January 25, 2024 | Dr. Ross Jamieson, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | African Diaspora Historic Cemeteries: Changing Politics, Globalizing Perspectives |
Thursday, February 1, 2024 | Dr. Aurea Carvalho, Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário | From Earth to Justice: The Fascinating Realm of Forensic Geology |
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | Dr. Francesco Berna, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | The Last Neanderthal |
Thursday, February 15, 2024 | Brock Wiederick, Archaeologist, Vancouver Park Board | City of Reconciliation: City of Vancouver Archaeology in Partnership with xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səlilwətaɬ |
Thursday, February 22, 2024 | Reading Week - No Seminar | |
Thursday, February 29, 2024 | Andreu Arino I Prats, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks (CLUES), a draft to bring cultural loss to the forefront of research |
Thursday, March 7, 2024 | Dr. John Welch, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | Forensic Sedimentology in an Indigenous Key: Crafting Collaboration at a Science-Humanities-Social Science Interface. |
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | Nicola Murray and Elena Sierra, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology and Centre for Forensic Research | Structured Light 3D Scanning: Lessons Learned in the Field |
Thursday, March 21, 2024 | Dr. David Burley, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | Death by a Thousand Shovels: The 2023 ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV/Squamish Field School and the Fate of Locarno Beach |
Thursday, March 28, 2024 | TBD | |
Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Dr. Nicole Jastremski, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies, Central Washington University | Extreme Makeover: Conserving Bioarchaeological Collections in a Tropical Environment |
Thursday, April 11, 2024 | TBD |
Archaeology Fall 2023 Seminar
Brought to you by Dr. Dana Lepofsky and a team of Archy graduate students: Katie Dierks, Gracy Raj, Levi Cormier, Vlad Krakov, Nikki Simon, Elena Sierra, and Damon Tarrant.
All seminars will be at 3:30 - 5pm on Thursdays. All will have Zoom options and most will be held in person in the Archaeology Seminar Room, SWH 9152 at 3:30. If you’re able, join us in person for the seminar and afterwards in the Biercraft Pub or the Archaeology Lounge.
Date | Speaker | Title |
Thursday, September 7, 2023 | Meet and Greet! | Invitations have been sent out. |
Thursday, September 14, 2023 | Various Speakers, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | Notes from the field |
Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Chris Arnett, Independent Archaeologist/Heritage Consultant | Signs of the Time: Nlaka’pamux Resistance Through Rock Art |
Thursday, September 28, 2023 | Tommy Happynook, UVic Anthropology | wałšiʔałin ʔuuʔaałuk̓i ḥaḥuułi (re)connecting with traditional lands, waters, knowledge, and identity |
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | Bill Angelbeck, Douglas College | We will be postponing this seminar until the Spring term due to anticipated pickets at the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Burnaby campus on Thursday, October 5th. |
Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Andreu Arinyo i Prats, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology | We will be postponing this seminar until the Spring term due to anticipated pickets at the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Burnaby campus on Thursday, October 12th. |
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | Bill Angelbeck, Douglas College | We will be postponing this seminar until the Spring term due to anticipated pickets at the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Burnaby campus on Thursday, October 12th. |
Thursday, October 26, 2023 | Laura Yazedijan, Office of the Chief Coroner of BC | Analysis and identification of unidentified human remains in BC |
Thursday, November 2, 2023 | Inuvialuit Living History Project Team., Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Center; Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario; Ursus Heritage Consulting; School of Interactive Arts and Technology and Department of Archaeology, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. | Exploring Principles of Community and the Collaborative Process through 15 years of the Inuvialuit Living History Project |
Thursday, November 9, 2023 | Dunan McLaren, Hakai Institute | The Northern Vancouver Island Archaeology and Paleoecology Project |
Thursday, November 16, 2023 | Chelsey Armstrong, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Indigenous Studies, and Resource and Environmental Management | Revisiting Skeena River Archaeology: Snapshots from Historical-Ecological and Huwilp-Based Approaches |
Thursday, November 23, 2023 | Jo Hammond, Hammond Heritage Associates | Hard Archaeology: an anticolonial public archaeology project |
Thursday, November 30, 2023 | George Nicholas, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archaeology, and Joe Watkins, Senior Consultant, Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, LLC |
The Premise, Promise, and Perils of Indigenous Archaeology: In Conversation with George Nicholas and Joe Watkins |
Thursday, December 7, 2023 | let's go to the pub -- after classes | In person only! |