Conceptualizing Community

Penn Cultural Heritage Center Annual Meeting on
Community Archaeology and Heritage: Conceptualizing Community

with Keynote Speaker Dr. Stephen Silliman, University of Massachusetts, Boston

One of the major challenges in Community Archaeology and Heritage is defining and prioritizing stakeholder participation; in essence, who and what counts as community? Is community archaeology the same as public archaeology? Is engaged research the same as collaborative? Please join us for a day of papers and discussion at the Penn Museum.

SCHEDULE:

10:00-10:30 am
 Opening remarks - Richard Leventhal, Penn Cultural Heritage Center

Session 1: Museums and Communities

10:30-10:45 am 
Unvisited Museums, Toponyms, and the Ethics of Community Archaeology
Aliosha Bielenberg and Kelley Tackett, Brown University

10:45-11:00 am
 Cultural Dissonance and Dark Heritage Solutions

Victoria Parker, University of Montana

11:00-11:15 am
 How Communities are Inscribed in the Materiality of Washoe Basketry

Francisco Diaz, University of Pennsylvania

11:15-11:30
 Q&A – Discussant Chris Green, University of Pennsylvania

Coffee and Tea Break


Session 2: Identities and Communities

11:45 am-12:00 pm
 Archaeology and the Political Community
Rui Gomes Coelho, Rutgers University

12:00-12:15 pm
 Challenging Communities: Community Archaeology as Social Justice

V. Camille Westmont, University of Maryland

12:15-12:30 pm
 The Importance of the Local in Lower Mississippi Valley Community Archaeology
Megan Kassabaum and Arielle Pierson, University of Pennsylvania

12:30-12:45 pm
 Competing Visions of ‘Kazakhness’: Community Self-Discovery through the World of Traditional Craftwork

Ad Lane, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill

12:45-1:00 pm 
Q&A – Discussant Robbie Vigar, University of Pennsylvania

Lunch

Keynote speech
1:45-2:30 pm
 Stephen Silliman, Professor of Archaeology, University of Massachusetts Boston

2:30-2:45 pm Q&A

Session 3: Archaeological Praxis

3:00-3:15 pm
 Community Archaeology in Practice: The Field School Experience in Athienou, Cyprus
Helena Arose and Julia Wareham, Athienou Archaeological Project

3:15-3:30 pm 
Complicating Communities in French Guiana: Introducing Archéo La Caroline

Elizabeth Clay, University of Pennsylvania

1:30-3:45 pm
 Identifying Community in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala

Kirsty Escalante, Tulane University

3:45-4:00 pm
 Q&A - Discussant Doug Smit, University of Pennsylvania

Coffee and Tea Break

4:15-5:15 pm
 Roundtable Discussion – Moderator (TBD)

Free to attend, register here!

Penn Cultural Heritage Center
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
heritage@pennmuseum.org
www.pennchc.org
phone: 215-746-4475