Department Seminar Series
Spring 2018 Seminar Series
Organized by Mark Collard and Chris Carleton.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Jon Driver | Archaeology, SFU |
Continuing Research at Tse'K'wa (Charlie Lake Cave) |
Jan 11 |
Dana Lepofsky / Anne Salomon |
Archaeology, SFU & REM, SFU | The Clam Garden Network: Exploring the Social and Ecological Contexts of Clam Management in the Past, Present, and Future |
| Jan 18 | Matt Gervais |
Psychology, UBC |
Structures of sentiment: Mapping the Affective Bases of Social Relationships in Yasawa, Fiji |
| Jan 25 | Dennis Sandgathe |
Archaeology, SFU | Were European Neandertals Able to Make Fire? |
| Feb 1 | Martin Steskal |
Austrian Archaeological Institute |
Of Bones and Burials: Interdisciplinary Research on the Mortuary Landscape of Ephesos |
Feb 8 |
Michelle Kline |
Psychology, SFU |
Methods Matter: Towards an Empirical Science of Cultural Evolution |
Feb 15 |
No seminar |
|
Reading break |
Feb 22 |
Mike Wilson |
Geology, Douglas College |
Geoheritage in Metro Vancouver: Concepts and Case Histories |
Mar 1 |
Aviva Finkelstein |
Musqueam First Nation |
Inviting Participation is Not Enough: My Role in Perpetuating Colonial Control of Archaeology in BC |
Mar 8 |
Rosa Maria Albert |
ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona |
Plants of the Past: The Use of Phytoliths to Improve Our Understanding About the Human Use of Plants and the Palaeoenvironment |
Mar 15 |
Vaughan Grimes |
Archaeology, Memorial University |
Diets, Dating and aDNA: New Insights into the Maritime Archaic and Beothuk of Eastern Canada |
Mar 22 |
No seminar |
|
SFU’s Palaeo-Olympics event |
Mar 29 |
Elen Feuerriegel |
Anthropology, University of Washington |
The Upper Limb of Homo naledi: New Material from the Ledesi Chamber |
Apr 5 |
John Albanese |
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, University of Windsor |
Hiking upstream: Beyond Forensic Casework in the Pursuit of Social Justice and Human Rights |
*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.
To subscribe/unsubscribe to the SFU Archaeology Seminar mailing list, send an email to maillist@sfu.ca with a subject of either: subscribe arch-seminar or unsubscribe arch-seminar