[Chacmool-l] Newsletter Oct.27th-Nov.2nd

[Chacmool Archaeology Association]

Hey Everyone!

  For once this email will be relatively short! Are you all as excited
about the snow as most of us in the Chacmool office are!?  Don't forget
there's still time to volunteer for the Chacmool Conference! Just reply
to this email! Also don't forget that there's still time to submit a
theme for next years conference! Here's whats happening this week!

1. Noon Hour Lecture
2.Calgary SSEA Talk
3.Chacmool Halloween Movie Night

Noon Hour lecture
  As always this week's noon hour lecture promises to be exciting and
informative! Mike Moloney, a PH. D, Candidate with the University of
Calgary's Arky department will be giving a lecture titled "On Till
Ragnarok, Underwater Excavations at the Viking Settlement of Birka.
Check out the attached poster for more info! as always it will take
place in ES859 this Wednesday at 12. Check out the attached poster for
more info! If you would like to  donate a snack the sign up form is
right outside out office located in ES826.

Calgary SSEA Talk
  For those of you who like Greek and Roman Studies, Check this out!

Lecture: Hero of Alexandria and the Roman  Technological Revolution

Date: 7:30 – 9:00 pm, 01-Nov-2013

 Location: Room EDC 287 in the Education Block at the University of Calgary.

Cost: Meetings are Free to members, Guests $5 – Students with ID $2

 Hero was a 1st-century-CE engineer and inventor who worked at the Library
and Museum of Alexandria, established by the Ptolemaic dynasty three
centuries
earlier. Following in the footsteps of other notable technicians like
Ktesibios, his inventive mind created a remarkable series of revolutionary
machines using all
the mechanical devices in the Hellenistic tool-kit (complex gears,
compound pulleys, screws, and the like) and introduced a revolutionary
power source—steam—all of which foreshadow the Industrial Revolution of
the 18th and 19th centuries. But this lecture is not a review of
high-school physics. We’ll look at Hero’s creation of the first vending
machine, the differential axle, a bottomless wine cup, a pipe organ, and a
“miraculous” system that opened doors to
a temple whenever a fire was lit on the sacrificial altar. With all this
technology, and a railway to boot, why did the ancients not have an
industrial revolution?

 About the speaker:
 John Humphrey is a professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies
at the University of Calgary. He is a Roman archaeologist and historian
who has
excavated in Greece and Turkey and has written two books on the
development of technology on the Greek and Roman worlds. Some SSEA members
might know him as a
scholar of Roman public toilets.

 More information on their website: http://www.calgaryssea.ca/

Chacmool Movie Night
  Last but not least, Chacmool will be having an Archaeology themed movie
night this thursday (31st) in ES859 starting at 6 pm. Come dressed up
for halloween! Chacmool will provide a movie but if you have any you
would like to bring feel free! There will also  be popcorn and pop!
After the movie we will movie the party to the Last Defence Lounge! Come
Check it out! It promises to be a good time!

Stay warm Chacmoolians!
-Chacmool
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