NEW for 2011-12 academic year!
Degree Program in ARCHAEOLOGY
Department of Anthropology Events
Department of Anthropology, Trent University Presents
the 2011-12 Kenneth Kidd Lecture, January 26
Lecture Poster
Lecture Article -Posted 1/02/2012
Public welcome to public lecture by visiting archaeologist
Dr. Tristan Carter, McMaster University
"Through a Glass Darkly: Reconstructing Neolithic Interaction via Obsidian Sourcing in the Eastern Mediterranean"
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7:30pm
Bagnani Hall at Traill College, Peterborough
The Department of Anthropology at Trent University will host the 2012 Kenneth Kidd Lecture on Thursday, January 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Bagnani Hall at Catharine Parr Traill College, with a presentation by Dr. Tristan Carter, McMaster University anthropology professor.
Dr. Carter's presentation, entitled 'Through a Glass Darkly: Reconstructing Neolithic Interaction via Obsidian Sourcing in the Eastern Mediterranean,’ is free and open to the public.
Dr. Carter is an archaeologist whose research focuses on eastern Mediterranean prehistory, primarily the Aegean, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, spanning the epi-palaeolithic to late bronze age. Working mainly with stone tools, his studies consider modes of production and consumption as reflections of past cultural habits. His recent work has involved a series of obsidian techno-typological / sourcing studies as a means of investigating inter-community relations in bronze age (‘Minoan’) Crete, household traditions at Aceramic Neolithic - Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, and the ‘materiality of pilgrimage’ in northern Mesopotamia.
The Kenneth Kidd Lecture series is named for the late Kenneth E. Kidd, first chair of Trent's Anthropology Department. Lectures in this series are given by visiting guests, Trent faculty and research fellows, and graduate students in Anthropology.
All members of Trent and the Peterborough community are welcome to this free event.
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KENNETH KIDD LECTURE SERIES, 2010-2011 (Second Lecture)
Thursday, March 24, 2011, 5-7pm in Gzowski college 115
ESTEBAN PARRA, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of Toronto
"EVOLUTION OF SKIN PIGMENTATION
AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH"
5-7pm
The lecture will summarize our current understanding of the evolution and the genetic basis of skin pigmentation variation, and will describe the implications for public health (skin cancer risk, vitamin D deficiency). The lecture will also present the results of a recent study evaluating vitamin D status in a sample of healthy young adults of diverse ancestry living in Toronto.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 5:00-7:00 P.M.
GZOWSKI COLLEGE 115
Admission is free. All Welcome!
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ANTHROPOLOGY HONOURS AND MAJORS
INFORMATION SESSION
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
3:30 p.m.
Life & Health Sciences Building (DNA, Block C, room 233)
Learn about majoring in Anthropology,
course offerings for 2011-12,
honours thesis options, field schools and much more.
Click for Poster
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Belize 2011 Field School Information Session Poster
Don't miss this opportunity to gather information for the Summer 2011 Belize field school!
What: Belize Archaeology Field School 2011 Information Session
When: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, Time: 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Where: Life & Health Sciences Building (DNA Bldg) Block C Room 233
Come and see the Belize Slide Show and get answers to your questions.
Everyone Welcome!
Speakers and Lecture Series
In OSHAWA - 55 Thornton Road Campus
Trent Oshawa Anthropology Lecture Series
J. "EI" Molto - Professor of Bioarchaeological Genetics,
University of Western Ontario
Date: Monday February 7, 2011
TIme: 1 pm
Place: Room 125
Coffee Reception to Follow
Everyone is Welcome
Dying, Death and DNA in the Tutankhamun Lineage : Click for Poster
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Justin Jennings - Associate Curator, Department of World Cultures, Royal Ontario Museum.
Date: Monday January 24, 2011
Time: 1 - 3 pm
Place: Room 125
Coffee Reception to Follow
Everyone is Welcome
Civilization before the State - Click for Poster
Since the beginning of academic anthropology, the spread of civilization has been linked to the expansion of the first states. Using examples from around the world, this talk argues instead that what we think of as "civilizations" were often the unintended consequences of chaotic first decades of urban life.
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Inaugural Lecture - Monday, September 20, 2-4pm Thornton Campus
Reaping The Resources: Stories from Oshawa's History
Laura Suchan - Executive Director, Oshawa Community
Museum and Archives
Forthcoming Lectures
Monday, October 4, 2pm - Thornton Campus
Dr. Chen Shen, Royal Ontario Museum
Monday, November 1, 2pm - Thornton Campus
Dr. Ed Swenson, University of Toronto
In PETERBOROUGH
Friday, 8 October 2010, 6-8pm - A Double Lecture Event in Gzowski College 115
BARBARA TEDLOCK, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University at Buffalo
"INTERCULTURAL DREAMING"
6-7 pm
DENNIS TEDLOCK, Distinguished Professor, McNulty Prof. in the Poetics
Program, Research Prof. of Anthropology, Dept. of English, University
at Buffalo
"SOUND AND IMAGE IN MAYAN WRITING"
7-8 pm
(Roger Lohmann is making a reservation for dinner with the Tedlocks
after their lectures at Parkhill on Hunter
http://www.parkhillonhunter.com/. If you wish to join us, please
e-mail Roger by Thursday, Sept. 30 at <rogerlohmann@trentu.ca>).
A S p e c i a l E v e n i n g ' s D o u b l e L e c t u r e
"INTERCULTURAL DREAMING"
Barbara Tedlock
Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
Research in the human sciences has recently undergone a radical shift
in perspective from considering the world as a collection of objects
(objectivity) or of subjects (subjectivity), to understanding the
world as a set of dialogical processes and psychodynamic
relationships (intersubjectivity). Likewise, the ethnography of
dreaming has changed from a simple gathering, arrangement,
interpretation, and comparison of dreams into an intersubjective
dialogical communicative process. Fieldworkers today often share
their own dreams, associations, and interpretations with their
subjects and as a result they are becoming intercultural. Examples
come from Native North and South America, Africa, Pakistan, and Nepal.
"SOUND AND IMAGE IN MAYAN WRITING"
Dennis Tedlock
Distinguished Professor, McNulty Professor in the Poetics Program,
Research Prof. of Anthropology, Dept. of English, University at
Buffalo
The decipherment of the Mayan script was delayed until the middle of
the twentieth century because of the failure of Western scholars to
grasp its composite nature. Mayan phonetic signs are like letters of
the alphabet in that the act of reading them requires a leap from the
world of sight to that of sound, but they stand for syllables rather
than smaller units of sound. Another difference is their use in
combination with logographic signs, which often take the form of
images or diagrams that correspond to the meanings of words. Recent
epigraphic work, increasingly guided by linguistic methods, tends to
produce phonetic transcriptions that efface the dual nature of the
script.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 6:00-8:00 P.M.
GZOWSKI COLLEGE 115
Admission is free. All Welcome!
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PAST LECTURES
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Anthropology Goes Downtown
Trent University is proud to host the Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series featuring two engaging presentations by leading Canadian anthropologists. Themed "Anthropology Goes Downtown", the presentations will take place over two separate nights at Splice Restaurant & Lounge, located at 379 George St. N., Peterborough, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.
2010 Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series
The Department of Anthropology and
Trent University Archaeological Research Centre (TUARC)
are pleased to announce the 2010 Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series:
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Dr. Gyles Iannone,
Trent University
Socio-environmental Dynamics
A Long Term Perspective From the
Ancient Maya World
Splice Lounge, 379 George Street North, 7 pm
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Dr Tracy Prowse, McMaster University
Life and Death on an Imperial Roman Estate at Vagnari, South Italy
Splice Lounge, 379 George Street North, 7 pm
2009 Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series
Anthropology Goes Downtown featured three leading Canadian anthropologists in 2009:
Laura Peers, Curator for the Americas Collection, Pitt Rivers Museum, Reader in Material Anthropology at the University of Oxford and 2009 Ashley Fellow at Trent University presented: ‘These pictures are like dictionaries’: Visual repatriation, collaborative anthropology and the Kainai Nation
Justin Jennings, Associate Curator, Royal Ontario Museum and cross-appointed in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto presented: Pots, Brewers, and Hosts: Women’s Power and the Limits of Central Andean Feasting
Judith Sealy, Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology, and oversees the Stable Light Isotope Laboratory at University of Cape Town, South Africa presented: Issues in the archaeology of Holocene hunter-gatherers in
southernmost Africa
2008 Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series
Anthropology Goes Downtown featured three leading Canadian anthropologists:
Sandra Bamford, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, presented: Images of Consumption: Witchcraft & Enviromentalism in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Shiho Satsuka, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, presented: Mediating Nature: Japanese Tour Guides in the Canadian Rockies
Ann Herring, professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University, presented: Viral panic, vulnerability and the next pandemic
The Department of Anthropology’s Richard B. Johnston Lecture was delivered by Dr. Robert McGhee, curator of Arctic Archaeology, Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. Robert McGhee presented: Archaeology, Inuit History, and the Myth of the Aboriginal
