• The Unknown Ottawa Project – working with colonial and indigenous assemblages from the Ottawa region

    303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Laura Banducci – Carleton University This project involves the re-studying and digitization of artefacts from several assemblages from Lake Leamy Park, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers. This was a central meeting place from the earliest days of human occupation of the region, yet the materials are not well-published or easily […]

  • The Southern Mani Archaeological Project: Fieldwork at the End of the World

    303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Chelsea A.M. Gardner (Acadia University) The Mani peninsula is the literal (geographical) and metaphorical “end of the world”, since it occupies the southernmost point of mainland Greece and the […]

  • Sparta and Totalitarianism

    Speaker: Susan Downie – Carleton University The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has never really left the imagination of western civilization. From political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to modern […]