[Chacmool-l] Events and Elections Reminder

[Chacmool]

Greetings Chacmool,

Don't forget that elections for 2010-2011 Chacmool will be held this Friday,
March 12th, at a General Meeting in ES 859.

Autumn Whiteway, Student Director for the Archaeological Society of Alberta,
has provided us with the list of upcoming events below, several of which
involve faculty or students from our department.

-Lance

 

Upcoming Events

"Understanding Past Diet in Siberian Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers from Lake
Baikal, Russia", Dr. M. Anne Katzenberg, Department of Archaeology,
University of Calgary, Presented by the Archaeological Society of Alberta

Date: March 17, 2010
Time: 7:30-9:00PM
Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 162 (Tom Oliver Lecture Theatre)
University of Calgary
Who: Presented by the Archaeological Society of Alberta
Free and open to the public (and a door prize!)

Abstract: What were the dietary choices for prehistoric people living along
the shores of Lake Baikal? Was the technology available to make use of those
resources? Evidence from chemical analysis of bone and other archaeological
methods are used to reconstruct past diet and to explore dietary variation
over time in Neolithic and Bronze Age Siberia.

Calgary Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Room 162 (Tom Oliver
Lecture Theatre), Earth Sciences, University of Calgary



Title:  Horemheb & the genesis of 'Mithraism' in Ancient Egypt  
Speaker: Rosalind Park 
Date: 5 March 2010
Time:  7:30 p.m.

Madame Park will talk about some speculations about Horemheb, and his 'tomb'
at Saqqara not being a tomb, but a type of clandestine meeting place for his
army generals. She will present arguments that the funerary texts of his
later tomb in the Valley of the Kings show that an Egyptian style type of
'Mithraism' was practiced some 1,500 years before Roman soldiers took hold
of the ideology.
Madame Park has UK degrees in Archaeometry [B.Sc], & Cultural Astronomy
[MA], with archaeology post grad field-work done in Israel. A member of the
International Association of Egyptologists since 1998 and, from time to
time, publishes and lectures on medicine and/or religious astronomy in
Ancient Egypt.

Date: 9 April 2010
Title: Egypt Rocks: Buildings, Statues and the Geology of Egypt
Speaker: Paul English

 

Date: 7 May 2010
Title: Early farming in the Egyptian Nile Valley and in Northeastern Africa 
Speaker: Mary McDonald

 

Date: 4 June 2010
Title: Abydos
Speaker: Julius Szekrenyes


Chacmool Noon Hour Lecture Series, Wednesdays at noon, Room ES 859,
University of Calgary Dept. of Archaeology
Mar 10, 2010
Lindsay Amundsen, MA Student:  Location, Location, Location - An Application
of GIS to the Blackfoot Ecological and Social Landscape


Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies


7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Social Sciences 541, University of Calgary


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


THE FIRST WEST COAST GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

 

Held on April 2-3, 2010, and hosted by the Department of Greek and Roman
Studies and the History of Medicine and Health Care Program at the
University of Calgary, AB (Canada). This conference is open to graduate and
postdoctoral students across North-America (particularly the West Coast
states and provinces) working in all fields related to the history of
medicine and health care from ancient times to the modern period. Our
mission is to foster interdisciplinary and transchronological exchanges and
provide a forum for sharing and discussing graduate research by peers and
faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions. For further
information, please visit the website.

 

with inclusion of this link:

 

 <http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/%7Egmedconf/>
http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~gmedconf/

 

 

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 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)

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