27th Annual Richard Frucht Memorial Conference

Each year the University of Alberta's anthropology students run a four-field anthropology conference in honour of the late Dr. Richard Frucht. The organizing committee of the 27th annual Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series (March 6-8th, 2019) is pleased to announce that this year’s distinguished speaker is Dr. Bernard Perley. Dr. Perley is a linguistic anthropologist from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and has ongoing research and advocacy in language revitalization.

There is tons of great events to attend at this year's conference!

Honoured guest Dr. Bernard Perley will be guiding a two-session artistic workshop which will encourage participants to explore alternative methods of research dissemination. In this workshop participants will learn how to create an alternative ethnographic space through art. The workshop will take place the afternoons of March 7th and 8th in the Henry Marshall Tory Building.

A brief look at the schedule of conference activities is provided below. For further details and more information please visit our website at: https://richardfrucht.wixsite.com/lectureseries/abstracts

Conference Schedule
Wednesday March 6th
12:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch Meet and Greet (Tory 14-28)
6:00 - 9:00pm Keynote Lecture “Home and Native Land: Recalling Traditional Homelands” with Linguistic Anthropologist Dr. Bernard Perley (Royal Alberta Museum Amiskwaciy Theater)

Thursday March 7th
9:00am - 10:15am Podium Session 1: Anthropological Advances in Archaeology (Tory 14-28)
10:15 - 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Podium Session 2: Language and Society (Tory 14-28)
12:00 - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00 - 5:00pm “Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: a workshop on collaborative re-inscription” Workshop Day 1 (Tory B-29)

Friday March 8th
9:00am - 10:15am Podium Session 3: Diverse Realities in Cultural Anthropology (Tory 14-28)
10:15am -10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Podium Session 4: Social Approaches to Biological Anthropology (Tory14-28)
12:00 -1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:00pm Podium Session 5: Potpourri (Assorted Papers) (Tory 14-28)
2:00 - 3:00pm Poster Session (Tory-Business Atrium)
3:00 - 5:00pm “Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: a workshop on collaborative re-inscription” Workshop Day 2 (Tory B-29)
6:30 - 10:00pm Banquet (Faculty Club)

Each participant must register in person or online.

Disclaimer:

ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS and the Governors of the University of Alberta, their executive, officers, directors, employees, volunteers, members and representatives (hereafter referred to as "the Club") are not responsible for any injury, loss or damage of any kind sustained by any person while participating in 27TH ANNUAL RICHARD FRUCHT MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES AND STUDENT CONFERENCE (hereinafter referred to as “Club Activity”), including injury, loss or damage which might be caused by the negligence of the Club.

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