Archaeology Day 2024: Place & Power


DATE
Saturday March 16, 2024
TIME
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
UBC Anthropology Sociology Building

UBC’s Archaeology Day Symposium is an annual event that showcases to the UBC community and wider public current archaeological research being done by students and faculty in the Anthropology and AMNE departments. Join us this year for a day full of research presentations, lightning talks and posters, on March 16th beginning at 9:00AM.

The theme of this year’s Archaeology Day is “Place and Power.” Since archaeology’s “spatial turn” in the 1990s, the top-down applications of power in the creation, appropriation and erasure of places in imperial and colonial contexts have been a key area of archaeological research. New theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches are expanding the scales at which we understand place-making, while taking a more nuanced view of the socio-spatial dynamics of power that recognizes the importance of local histories, social memory, materiality and grassroots processes of resistance, negotiation and resiliency.

The event’s keynote speaker is Sonia Alconini, David A. Harrison III Professor of American Archeology at the University of Virginia, who will present Inka Landscapes of Power: Sacred Places, Power, and Social Memory.

Archaeology Day is free to attend, we look forward to seeing you there.

Archaeology Day Location: 

UBC Anthropology Sociology Building (room 207)
Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓ q̓ əmin̓ əm̓ speaking Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓ əm) people.

There is a Zoom link available for remote attendance. For the link, please email megan.daniels@ubc.ca

Program: 

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Archaeology Day Abstracts


Please contact Kevin Fisher (kevin.fisher@ubc.ca) or Aleksa Alaica (aleksa.alaica@ubc.ca) with any questions.



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