Dec 16, 2020

Webinar 1/13: Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge

  • SAPIENS
  • Webinar
  • Wenner-Gren Hosted Event

We are excited to announce the next webinar sponsored by the Society of Black Archaeologists, Indigenous Archaeology Collective, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, and SAPIENS, Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge. The webinar will be held on January 13, 2021 from 4-6 pm EST and is sponsored by the Stanford Archaeology Center.  

The webinar will be moderated by Whitney Battle-Baptiste, PhD (Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center and Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and panelists include Sara Gonzalez, PhD (Associate Professor at the University of Washington and Curator of Archaeology at the Burke Museum), Sven Haakanson (Alutiiq), PhD (Associate Professor at the University of Washington and Curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum), Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) (Contemporary Pueblo Painter and Dubin Fellow), and Cheryl White, PhD (Archaeology Coordinator, Anton de Kom University of Suriname). The webinar will be hosted on Zoom and live-streamed via Vimeo. CART captioning will be provided, and the event will be recorded and available for later viewing.

This virtual panel discussion is part of a year-long series that features transformational approaches to archaeological storytelling. More information on the event series can be found here: www.sapiens.org/futures.

While Wenner-Gren is proud to be providing a platform for this event, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Foundation.