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The K-T Boundary ([personal profile] katycat) wrote2010-02-15 10:38 pm
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Ninth Biennial Open Forum for Graduate Students Conference at Boston University

This weekend I will be presenting the early stages of my research on Icelandic tephrochronology and sedimentation at the Ninth Biennial Open Forum for Graduate Students Conference at Boston University: (Un)Known Spaces: Perceived and Intangible Landscapes.

Titles of papers to be given at this year’s conference:

* Interpreting the “Sacred” in Pre-Contact southern New England: Manitou Offerings and the Algonquian Animate World
* Over my Dead Body: Resurrection of History and Memory at the Gravesite
* Using GIS to Visualize Ephemeral Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes in a Transforming Environment
* Landscapes of Status in Viking-Age Iceland
* The Mortuary Landscape of Bronze Age Hovsgol Province, Mongolia
* At the Edge of Nation: Lynching Memorials across America
* A Paradox of Place: Settlement Constancy and Changing Cultural Systems in the Highland Andean Altiplano
* “Para Mí Es un Lugar Sagrado”: Contemporary Conceptions of Cenotes in Valladolid, Yucatán
* Tangled Silk: The Politics and Economics of Silk Road Heritage
* Mudflats to Mansions: an Archaeological Life History of the Landscape of Boston’s Back Bay
* Landscape and Cosmology: Their Interactive Relationship in the Sultanate of Banten, Java, Indonesia
* The (Re)Union of the Known and the Unknown: An Archaeological Approach to the Study of Graffitied Landscapes

Conference Schedule:
Friday, Feb 19, 2010
5:00 p.m.: Registration
6:00 p.m.: Keynote Address, Room CAS 211
7:00 p.m.: Reception
8:00 p.m.: Dinner with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Wendy Ashmore (invitation only)

Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Paper Sessions, Room CAS B50
8:00 p.m.: Pub Social

Sunday, Feb 21, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon: Roundtable Discussion and Brunch, Room CAS 224

Conference Fee: Free

Conference Pre-registration: Not required

Location of Conference:
Stone Science Building, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215



Follow the link at top for directions. All of the papers look fascinating; it should be a great day! If you stop by, come find me and say hi. (Also, I have it on good authority that there will be free bagels to go with the free knowledge.)

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