[Anthsoc] Anthropology Dept.'s 2009 Silver Medal / Sally Weaver Awards event

[Allyson Rowat]

The Anthropology Department's 2009 Silver Medal lecture and the presentation
of the Silver Medal and Sally Weaver awards will take place on Friday
October 16 at 7:30 in the evening in room EIT 1015 of UW's Centre for
Environmental and Information Technology, the building just south of the
Davis Centre.

The lecture will be given by Canadian writer and popularizer of
archaeological knowledge Heather Pringle. Author of "In Search of Ancient
North America: An Archaeological Journey to Forgotten Cultures" and many
magazine articles on archaeological topics, and currently author of a blog
for Archaeology magazine, her lecture will be entitled "The Barenaked
Archaeologist: Telling Tales of the Past out of School and in the Media." It
will address how archaeologists might better convey the importance and
interest of archaeology to the public, based on what she describes as 25
years of observation of how archaeologists communicate to the public and
amongst themselves.

This Silver Medal lecture will serve double-duty as the kick-off of the
Ontario Archaeological Society's annual symposium, which the Anthropology
department is hosting that weekend--you can find much more information about
the symposium and about Heather's lecture here: http://oas2009.uwaterloo.ca

Heather's lecture is free and will be open to the general public. It will be
followed by a reception in the same building, to which everyone is invited.

 

 

Allyson Rowat
Administrative Secretary (Undergraduate & Graduate)
Department of Anthropology (PAS 2012)
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada  N2L 3G1
(519) 888-4567, ex. 32520

 

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