[Aztlan] Northwest Anthropological Conference in Victoria BC

[michael ruggeri]

Northwest Anthropological Conference
Victoria, BC
23th-26th April, 2008
NWAC 2008 Overview

The 2008 Northwest Anthropological Conference will be held at the  
Marriott Hotel in downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Sessions,  
posters, and workshops will be held in the conference facilities at  
the hotel. A reception will be held on the Thursday night of the  
conference in the galleries of the Royal British Columbia Museum. The  
conference will end with a banquet in the Pacific Ballroom at the  
Marriott Hotel.

NWAC includes anthropological research in northwestern North America,  
and the research of Pacific Northwest anthropologists working  
elsewhere in the world. A centrepiece of this year’s conference will  
be a special symposium based on the findings of researchers  
investigating Kwäday Dan Ts’ìnchi, the remains of a man preserved by  
glacial ice in northwestern British Columbia.  Other session have  
been proposed and can be viewed in the list of proposed sessions.

Contact Information

General questions: nwac.2008 at gmail.com

Registration costs
Regular: $85.00 Canadian.
Student: $45.00 Canadian (student ID required when signing in).

Banquet: $52.00 Canadian.




Sessions

Title: Technology in Archaeology.  Organizer(s): Morley Eldridge &  
Alyssa Parker

  Title: Fish Traps and Clam Gardens; Aboriginal Mariculture on the  
Northwest Coast.  Organizer(s): Dee Cullen & Bjorn Simonsen

  Title: The Power of Traditional Use Studies in British Columbia.   
Organizer(s): Brian Thom.

  Title: Collaborative Archaeological- A Northern First Nations’  
Approach and Perspective.  Organizer(s): Camille Callison.

  Title: Coast to Crest: Ongoing Prehistoric Archaeological  
Investigations in Southwestern Oregon. Organizer(s): Cathy Bialas &  
Kelly Derr.

  Title: Symposium in Honor of Robert Ackerman, WSU.  Organizer(s):  
Dale Croes.

  Title: Sunken Village National Historic Landmark Wet Site (35MU4),  
Explorations with Japanese Archaeologists, Fall 2007, Portland,  
Oregon.  Organizer(s): Dale Croes.

  Title: Collaboration, Innovation and Indigenous Studies Websites.  
Organizer(s): David A. Smith.

  Title: Archaeology of a Traditional Temperate Rain Forest -  
Indigenous Tree Harvesting on the Northwest Coast.
Organizer(s): Jim Stafford.

  Title: Kwäday Dan Ts’ìnchi Symposium.  Organizer(s): Grant Hughes,  
Sheila Greer, Frances Oles & Alexander Mackie.

  Title: Beyond the Household: Physical and Cultural Landscapes in  
the Archaeology of the Northwest Coast.
Organizer(s): Kisha Supernant, Morgan Ritchie & Adrian Sanders.

  Title: Meeting Today’s Challenges of Archaeological Resource  
Management in SW Canada/NW US Reservoirs.  Organizer(s): Marianne  
Berkey.

  Title: Beyond the Trowel: What happens when archaeologists actually  
talk to people?  Organizer(s): Marina La Salle.

  Title: Japanese Popular Culture: Challenging Boundaries, Bridging  
Times, Crossing Cultures.  Organizer(s): Dr. Millie Creighton.

  Title: Unsettling Dichotomies. Anthropological Reflections on the  
In/Tangible, the Im/Material, and the In/Visible.
Organizer(s): Patrick Moore, Solen Roth & Natalie Baloy

  Title: Maritime Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest.
Organizer(s): Scott Williams.

Title: Inequality, Intensification and Exchange: Studies from Keatley  
Creek and the Surrounding Mid-Fraser Region.
Organizer(s): Suzanne Villeneuve.

http://nwac.2008.googlepages.com/






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