Department Seminar Series - Department of Archaeology

Spring 2019 Seminar Series (Tentative Dates)

Organized by Aurora Camaño, Ellie Gooderham, Emily Mierswa, Joshua Fontaine and Dr. David Burley.

Unless otherwise indicated, the seminars will take place 3:30 - 5:00 pm in the Department's seminar room in Saywell Hall on SFU's Burnaby Campus (SWH 9152)

For further details contact goarch@sfu.ca

Changes to the schedule will be posted on the department’s website (http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/) and Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/groups/166962033349031/).

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan03	Dr. David Burley	SFU Archaeology	Triangular Voyageurs on a Very Long Journey - A Story Inscribed in the Rock Art of Tonga
Jan10	Dr. Bryn Letham	SFU Archaeology	Sea Level, Settlement, and Landscape Histories of Laxgalts’ap (Old Town), British Columbia
Jan17	Dr. Sarah Walshaw	SFU History	Where Rice is King? Archaeobotany of the Merina Kingdom (Madagascar) and the Kilwa Archipelago (Tanzania)
Jan24	Dr. Ryan Espersen	Saba Archaeological Center	From Hell's Gate to the Promised Land: Perspectives on Poverty in Saba, Dutch Caribbean, 1780 to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Jan31	Dr. G. Biké Yazıcıoğlu-Santamaria		Immigration, Political Instability and The Human Experience at Kanesh (Kültepe, Turkey) in 2nd millennium BC
Feb07	Dr. Chip Colwell	Denver Museum	Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Does Repatriation Matter?
Feb14	Dr. Camilla Speller	UBC Anthropology	Paleoproteomics: Promises, potentials and pitfalls in the study of ancient proteins
Feb21	Dr. Lesley Harrington	University of Alberta, Anthropology	Bioarchaeological perspectives on child health in the South African Later Stone Age
Feb28	Dr. Lindsay Der	UBC Okanagan Anthropology	Beyond Bones: Animal Materializations and Human-Animal Relationships at Çatalhöyük
Mar07	Dr. Christina Cheung and Dr. Hua Grace Zhang	SFU Archaeology	Please pass the noodles - correlation between climate change and subsistence economy in ancient China revealed by stable isotopic and dental pathology data
Mar14	No seminar (external review)		N/A
Mar21	Dr. Joost Schokkenbroek	Vancouver Maritime Museum	Oceans of Opportunities. Non-written Sources and Maritime Research
Mar28	Dr. Alison Wylie	UBC Philosophy	Histories of Archaeology - In and For Practice
Apr04	Dr. Barbara Winter	SFU Archaeology	Taking archaeological research to new audiences through museum videos

SFU Archaeology

TBD

Paleoproteomics: Promises, potentials and pitfalls in the study of ancient proteins

Immigration, Political Instability and The Human Experience at Kanesh (Kültepe, Turkey) in 2nd millennium BC

Sea Level, Settlement, and Landscape Histories of Laxgalts’ap (Old Town), British Columbia

Triangular Voyageurs on a Very Long Journey - A Story Inscribed in the Rock Art of Tonga

Denver Museum

UBC Philosophy

SFU Archaeology

*In keeping with traditions, we’ll have raffle prizes (tickets $2 each or 3 for $5) and a bake sale. All profits go to the graduate caucus to help fund student travel and research.

The Archaeology Student Society book sale is back! These are books from retired faculty, donations, etc. New items will be added each week. Michael from the student society has kindly agreed to sell books at the back of the seminar room, before and after our weekly seminars.