Archaeology Day 2025: From Outside
When and Where:
Saturday, March 22
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
UBC ANSO Building, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC
Full program to come.
Just announced! Check out our Morning and Afternoon Keynote Speakers. These events are available to view via Zoom (see Zoom link below).
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sven D. Haakanson (University of Washington)
From Research to Action: Collaboratively conducting research with Indigenous communities in Siberia and Alaska
Abstract: From conducting ethnoarchaeology with Nenet Reindeer Herders to collaborating with the community of Akhiok to celebrate our heritage through making traditional boats, making games, carving bowls and more. Archaeology isn’t just digging up artifacts, it is our histories being put back to our cultural ways of being
Dr. Myron Beasely (Bates College)
Malaga Island: Excavating Performance and Public Archaeology
Abstract: The story of Malaga Island centers on a diverse fishing community of Black, white, Native American, and mixed-race individuals. Sensationalist journalism labeled them “degenerates” and the island “disgusting.” Racist eugenics, efforts to promote Maine as “Vacationland,” and economic retribution fueled their forced removal in 1912. More than 45 residents were displaced, and graves exhumed for reburial in a mass grave. Some were institutionalized. This talk explores performance as a method of discovery and a creative means for critically examining archaeological sites. By foregroundingRe.Past.Malaga, which integrates concepts of the repast and culinary history, the project engaged in what Congqueergood describes as “imaginative summoning and interpretive replays of past events in light of present situations and struggles.” The Malaga project, which uses performance as a lens for interpreting material culture, suggests potential liberatory and critical uses of archaeology
These keynotes will be available via Zoom through the link below:
About UBC Archaeology Day: From Outside
The practice of archaeology has broad implications spanning academia, politics and policies, education, art, historical understandings, and grand narratives. Archaeology draws from methods and knowledge generated by an array of disciplines, including linguistics, STEM, museum studies, and Indigenous and various ancestral and community knowledges and belongings. Archaeology also relies on public funding and on contemporary socio-political issues that drive our work. This year, we seek to broaden representation of interests and expertise to think about archaeology, the responsibilities and impacts of archaeological research, interpretation, and heritage management from outside the discipline, demonstrating the reaches of archaeological work.
This approach invites us to acknowledge, address, celebrate, and problematize archaeology as a generative process that unites us. We invite you to think about potential futures, making good on past initiatives, and making new promises within and beyond the discipline.
We invite scholars and research professionals, graduate and undergraduate students from across academia and public and private sectors to join us, sharing and highlighting the impacts of a broadly imagined discipline.
Questions?
Feel free to contact kristen.barnett@ubc.ca for more information.
We can’t wait to see you there and explore the future of archaeology together!
