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 |
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| 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 | "Northern Europe, the Steppe and migration in the early 3rd millennium BCE: lay of the land 10 years after the advent of ancient DNA" |
| 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” |