Program
26th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference:
Hybrid Material Culture: The Archaeology of Syncretism and Ethnogenesis
27-28 March 2009
26th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference:
Hybrid Material Culture: The Archaeology of Syncretism and Ethnogenesis
27-28 March 2009
Carbondale, Illinois
CONFERENCE POSTER (pdf)
CONFERENCE BROCHURE (pdf)
Schedule
All sessions will be held at the Southern
Illinois Student Health Center Auditorium.
Click on titles of presentations to link to abstracts.
| March 27 | Friday |
| 8:00 - 8:45 | Registration / Check-in |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Opening remarks Jeb J. Card (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Contextualizing
Indigenous Copper Consumption and ‘Hybridization’ in Technological
‘Style’ in the Early Contact Period North American Midcontinent Kathleen L. Ehrhardt (Illinois State Museum) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Bone Tool
Technology on the Middle Missouri: Experiments and Innovations Janet L. Griffits (University of Arizona) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
The Kayenta
Diaspora and Salado Meta-Identity in the Ancient U.S. Southwest |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Small Beginnings:
Experimental Technologies and Hybrid Diasporas Katherine Hayes (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | The Industrious
Exiles: An Analysis of Flaked Glass Tools From the Leprosarium at Kalawao,
Moloka'i James L. Flexner (University of California Berkeley) and Colleen L. Morgan (University of California Berkeley) |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Set in Stone: On hybrid
iconographies and social relationships in prehistoric and Roman Europe |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Architectural
Spaces and Hybrid Practices in Northern Mesopotamia Sevil Baltali-Tirpan (Yeditepe University) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | ‘The
truth is rarely pure and never simple’: Interpreting skeuomorphism
in the archaeological record Catherine Frieman (University of Oxford) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | The Chatelperronian:
hybrid culture or independent innovation? Clare Tolmie (University of Iowa) |
| 4:00 - 4:40 | Discussant – Stephen Silliman (University of Massachusetts, Boston) |
| 4:40 - 5:00 | Open Discussion |
| 6:00 - 7:30 | Reception at Hunan Restaurant |
| March 28 | Saturday |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Late Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Exploring
Culture Contact through Style and Technology Melissa Chatfield (Stanford University) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Of Earth
and Clay: Ceramics of the African Atlantic in the Caribbean Mark Hauser (University of Notre Dame) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Renaissance
Italianate Pipil Potters: A New Approach to Hybrid Ceramics in the Colonial
Americas Jeb J. Card (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Continuity
and Change in early 18th Century Apalachee Colono wares Ann S. Cordell (Florida Museum of Natural History) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | A Study
of Hybrid Maya Ceramics: Integrating Foreign Styles in the Sibun Valley,
Belize Eleanor Harrison-Buck (University of New Hampshire), Ellen Spensley (Boston University), Patricia A. McAnany (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Hybridity
and its Homologues: The Material Culture of Colonial Encounters in
the Pueblo Southwest and on the Northern Plains Matthew Liebmann (Harvard University) |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Long-Term
Patterns of Ethnogenesis in Indigenous Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Hybrid Cultures…and
Hybrid Peoples: An Archaeology of Materiality, Perception, and Biological
Transformation in Colonial Peru Haagen D. Klaus (Utah Valley University) and Manuel D. Tam (Universidad Nacional de Trujillo) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Not what
it Seams: Technological Hybridity in Colonial Peruvian Textiles Carrie Brezine (Harvard University) |
| 4:00 - 4:40 | Discussant – Kathleen Deagan (Florida Museum of Natural History) |
| 4:40 - 5:00 | Open Discussion |
| March 29 | Sunday |
| 8:00 AM | Optional excursion to Cahokia site (contact Jeb J. Card for additional information) |
| Back to top | Please direct all enquiries to Jeb J. Card |