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Patrick Carmichael Febuary 17th 2010 7:30PM Earth Sciences Room 162
"Moche Erotic Art: Sex and Death in Ancient Peru"
Abstract: Human sexuality is a universal phenomenon, but sex acts and their
meaning vary with context and culture.
Ancient Peru - an area of the world where culture and sexual mores developed
independent of Old World infl uences - provides
a check on variety in human sexuality with imagery that has been variously
described as fertility related, erotic, pornographic, or morally degenerate.
The Moche people, who flourished on the north coast of Peru in the fi rst
centuries A.D., recorded the most intimate details of their sex lives in
ceramic effigy vessels. Why? Drawing upon archaeology, ethnohistory, and
ethnography to create an indigenous cultural context within which to view
the subject matter, this presentation argues that, for the Moche,
non-propagative sexual practices were part of a continuum which transcended
the procreation/pleasure dichotomy, and ultimately were directed at the
dead.

Calgary Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities:
5 February 2010
Time:            7:30 p.m.
Title:            Coins of the Ptolemies  
Speaker:        Geraldine Chimirri-Russell
Place: Nickle Arts Museum

Calgary Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities:
March 5, 2010
Time: 7:30PM
University of Calgary, Earth Sciences Building, Room 162
(Speaker and Title TBA)- First Friday of Each month until May


Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies


 


7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Building, Room 541


 


Monday, February 22, 2010
Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary, Alberta
A Taste for Attic Salt?  
Were Athenian Old Comedies Performed in Magna Graecia?

Friday, March 19, 2010
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Ontario
The Family and the Law in Classical Athens


 


Monday, March 29, 2010
David Konstan, Brown University, Rhode Island
Do Animals have Emotions?  The View from Ancient Greece


Chacmool Noon Hour Lecture Series- 12-1:00PM, Earth Sciences Building, Room
859


Feb 10, 2010
Shawn Morton, MA Student:  Tales from Belize - The First Season of the Caves
Branch Archaeology Survey




Big Rock Lecture: A New Battle for Historical Shipwrecks: On the Swedish
Vasa and the English Mary Rose


Submitted by kenben on Mon, 2010-01-11 14:19.


Event Date


2010-02-03 18:30


Location


Big Rock Grill 5555- 76th Avenue SE


Description


Farideh Jalilehvand will share her experience with us on how chemistry is
saving historical shipwrecks in museums around the world. Together with her
international collaborators, she has found that the large amounts of sulphur
embedded in the oakwood of the famous 17th century Swedish warship Vasa may
destroy it as the sulphur compounds oxidize into sulphuric acid.  A similar
sulphur problem has been found in the Mary Rose, the principle warship in
the Henry VIII's navy. 

Please join us while Jalilehvand explains how chemistry holds the key to the
conservation of these magnificent ships as they face their newest battle! 
Drinks 6:30 pm
Dinner 7pm
Talk 8:15 pm
Cost $45 per person (includes drinks, dinner, talk) 
Call: (403)720- 3239 (Mon- Fri, 8:00am - 4:30 pm) to purchase tickets. 

Alberta Palaeontological Society

A Tale of Two Reefs: Coral reefs versus sponge reef mounds from the Western
Atlantic Jurassic-Cretaceous shelf margin 
Speaker: Leslie Eliuk 
Dalhousie University, Earth Sciences Dept.     
7:30 PM 
Friday, February 19th, 2010 
Mount Royal University, Room B108


PALEO 2010 
Annual Paleontology Symposium 
Presented in conjunction with the C.S.P.G. Paleontological Division, Alberta
Palaeontological Society and Mount Royal University Earth Sciences
Department 
Lectures and Poster displays (Saturday, March 13th, 2010, 8:30 AM-5:15 PM) 
Workshops (Sunday March 14th, 2010, (9:00 AM- 4:00 PM) 
Saturday lecture events and poster viewings are free and require no
registration. 
Sunday workshops do require registration and minor fee. 
Mount Royal University 
4825 Richard Road S.W. 
Calgary, Alberta 
Saturday March 13th Lectures (held in Jenkins Theatre) 
Speakers confirmed so far include (talk titles are tentative): 
8.30-8.45 AM Introduction by APS President Wayne Braunberger 
8.45-9.15 AM Craig Dylke. 
New Zealand's fossils: remnants of a lost continent 
9:15-9.45 AM Danielle Fraser, Jordan Mallon, Rob Furr, and Jessica M.
Theodor, Univ. of Calgary 
Using high dynamic range imaging in vertebrate paleontology 
9.45-10.15 AM Lisa Bohach, FMA Heritage 
The art, culture and science of Iniskims 
10.15-10.30 AM Coffee Break 
10.30 -11.00 AM Darren Tanke, Royal Tyrrell Museum 
Reconstruction of scows used in early paleontological research and a
commemorative expedition planned for 2010. 
11.00-12.00 PM Marianne Collins, ArtoFact. 
History, mystery and baywatch: Illustrating the animals of the Burgess Shale

12-1.30 PM Lunch break and Poster Session 
1.30-2:00 PM Scott Persons, University of Alberta 
Changing the face of tyrannosaur rear ends: tail muscle reconstruction in
theropod dinosaurs 
2.00-2.30 PM Ariana Carabajal, Museo Carmen Funes, Argentina, and Philip
Currie, University of Alberta. 
Cranial endocast of the Jurassic theropod Sinraptor dongi (Currie & Zhao) 
2.30-3:00 PM Victoria Arbour, Mike Burns, University of Alberta 
My ankylosaur is a big dumb tank! Ankylosaur reconstructions in the
scientific literature and popular media 
3.00- 4.00 PM Philip Currie, University of Alberta 
Dinosaurs in science and art 
4.00-4.15 PM Coffee Break 
4.15-5.15 PM Scott Sampson, , Utah Museum of Natural History, University of
Utah 
Dinosaurs of the lost continent of Laramidia 
(Book signing afterwards) 
WORKSHOPS (Sunday March 14th), Room B213, Mount Royal University. 
9 -12 AM: Permian Vertebrate Fossils from North Central Texas 
Presenter: Jason Anderson, University of Calgary 
Cost: $15 per person. 
This workshop will cover the faunas typical for the classic Permian 
localities of northern Texas. There will be a brief introduction to the 
history of collecting in the Permian of Texas. This will be followed by 
a survey of the most common fossils found. Small collections of fossils 
from a few localities will be provided for workshop participants to 
examine and identify. Screenwashed sediments may also be available for 
participants to examine for fossil remains. 
Jason Anderson is a paleontologist and Assistant Professor with the 
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary. He is an 
Associate Editor of the Journal of Paleontology, coeditor of Major 
Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution (with Hans-Dieter Sues), and a 
contributing author to Prehistoric Life, The McGraw-Hill Yearbook of 
Science and Technology 2009, and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of 
Science, 10th Edition. He is the author of over 30 articles on the early 
evolution of Paleozoic tetrapods. 
1- 4 PM Make-a-Saurus 
Presenter: Brian Cooley 
Cost: $25 per person including cost of materials 
Using a variety of simple materials and methods, participants will learn how
to make their own dinosaur which they will be able to take home at the end
of the workshop. Children should wear clothes that they don't mind getting
dirty.
Brian Cooley has been making sculptures of dinosaurs for over twenty-five
years. His sculptures may be seen in museums all over the world, most
notably the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta. He
and his wife, Mary Ann Wilson, are co-authors of the children's book
Make-A-Saurus.
To register for workshops contact Mona Marsovsky (403) 547-0182 or
monahome at telus.net <mailto:monahome at telus.net>. Make cheque payable to the
Alberta Palaeontological Society, P.O. Box 35111, Sarcee Postal Outlet,
Calgary Alberta, Canada T3E 7C7. Deadline for workshop registration is March
1st, 2010
For information on the lecture program please contact Philip Benham
(Philip.Benham at shell.com <mailto:Philip.Benham at shell.com>) or phone
(403)-691-3343. 
To inquire about submitting a poster please contact Wayne Braunberger
(president at albertaplaeo.org <mailto:president at albertaplaeo.org>) or phone
(403) 278-5154

 


 


 

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