Seminars

The Archaeology seminar series is one of the oldest traditions in the Archaeology department and indeed, one of the oldest in the whole archaeology community of BC!

Join us once a week during the Fall and Spring terms for in-person presentations and discussions with a diversity of experts covering the broad range of topics that fall under the archaeology umbrella. 

Archaeology Fall 2024 Seminar

Brought to you by Dr. Catherine D'Andrea and Dr. Rudy Reimer.

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.

Week  Speaker(s) Affiliation  Topic
Sept 5 Department Meet and Greet at 3:30pm

Sept 12

Dr. Cathy D’Andrea

SFU Archaeology

Archaeology in Post-Conflict Tigrai, Ethiopia

Sept 19

Dr. Colin Grier

Washington State University Vancouver

Coastal Archaeology and Shoreline Protection Efforts in the southern Gulf Islands of BC: Integrating Stakeholders under an Indigenous-driven Framework

Sept 26

Dr. John Marston

Boston University 

Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia

Oct 3

Dr. Bill Anglebeck

Douglas College

TBA

Oct 10

Dr. Meaghan Efford

UBC Global Modelling Lab

Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada

Oct 17

Dr. Brandi Lee MacDonald

Archaeometry Lab at MURR

TBA

Oct 24

Dr. Angela Silva Bessa

SFU Archaeology

The importance of taphonomic research in the management of Portuguese public cemeteries

Oct 31

Dr. Valentina Martinoia

SFU Archaeology

Food for thought: understanding Roman subsistence strategies under Langobard rule (6th-7th centuries AD) in northern Italy using stable isotope analysis

Nov 7

Dr. Aleksa Alaica

UBC Anthropology

TBA

Nov 14

Dr. Elizabeth Peterson

Royal BC Museum

Cultural restitution, repair, and regrowth: how DRIPA is changing the RBCM’s Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Department

Nov 21

Dr. Christina Giovas and team

SFU Archaeology

Update on work at Curacao

Nov 28

Dr. Kisha Supernant

University of Alberta

Heart-Centered Archaeology for Reclamation and Restorative Justice

Archaeology Spring 2025 Seminar

Brought to you by Dr. Michael Richards.

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.

Week  Speaker(s) Affiliation  Topic
Jan 9 Cancelled

Jan 16

Cancelled

Jan 23 Eric Guiry SFU Reconstructing aquatic pasts: isotopic approaches and complexities
Jan 30 Alyssa Currie Tse’K’Wa Heritage Society  "Combining Scientific and Traditional Knowledge at Tse’k’wa"
Feb 6 Matt Sponheimer  University of Colorado, Boulder Dinner with Lucy: what does Paranthropus boisei bring to the table
Feb 13 Niels Nørkjær Johannsen  Aarhus University TBA
Feb 20 Reading Week - no seminar
Feb 27 Lesley Chesson DPAA Laboratory/SFU Using Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis for Forensic Human Identification
March 6 Julio Mercador  University of Calgary Early Homo adapted to diverse, unstable, and extreme environments 2-1 Ma:The evidence from Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania
March 13 Paul Szpak  Trent University The Landscape of Llama Husbandry in the Andes before the Arrival of Europeans
March 20 Sarah Walshaw  SFU History "Practical Magic: Food, peer teaching, and student connections in the classroom"
March 27 Farid Rahemtulla  UNBC Mid Holocene Indigenous Cultural Seascapes on the Central Coast of British Columbia
April 3 Cara Tremain SFU What in the (virtual) world? Issues with the digitization of cultural heritage

Past Seminars