DOWiA Schedule 2016

All lectures are held from 4:30-6:00pm at Arts and Letters Hall, room 307, on DePaul's Lincoln Park campus, unless otherwise noted. *note the room and building change as of 4 February 2016*




Thursday, 7 April 2016

Dr. David Pacifico (DePaul): "Urbanism in the Long Run: Perspectives from Late Pre-Hispanic Peru"



*Wednesday, 13 April* note special date

Sofia Chacaltana (University of Illinois-Chicago), TBA


Thursday, 21 April

Dr. Ronald Faulseit:  "Mixing Business with Pleasure: Archaeological Investigations of a Late Classic (A.D. 500 – 900) elite residential compound at Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico."



*Friday, 29 April 2016* note special date



Jane Eva Baxter (DePaul University): "The Challenges of Excavating A Famous Place: Archaeology and the Pullman National Monument"





Previous Lectures


Thursday, 7 January 2016 "Soft Opening"
Mafe Boza, Syracuse University presents on Historical Archaeology in the Andes

Thursday, 14 January 2016 *Inaugural Lecture*
Dr. Iman Saca (St. Xavier University) will present her work on Archaeology, Public Engagement, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites in her lecture entitled:“The Pearl of Qatar: A Story Retold, A Community Revived”

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Dr. Morag Kersel (DePaul): "Mission Impossible?? Tracking the Lives of Early Bronze Age Pots from the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan"


Thursday, 28 January 2016
Miles Van Denburg and Maggie Baker: "Test Units, Trowels, and Troubles: Our Belizean Field School Experience"

Thursday, 4 February 2016
Dr. Christopher Milan (DePaul): "1000 Years of Regional Integration: The Rise and Fall of a U-shaped Temple on the Central Coast of Peru"


Thursday, 11 February 2016
Dr. Jay Sosa (University of Chicago) will present "Shocking Pink and on the Street: Understanding Brazilian Protests Through Color."


*Monday, 15 February 2016* note special date and location: Arts and Letters Hall room 211
Dr. Matt Thomann (Columbia University) "The Price of Inclusion: Sexual Subjectivity, Violence and the AIDS Industrial Complex in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire."



Thursday, 25 February 2016
David Keller: "Excavations at Camp Douglas, Chicago"


Thursday, 10 March 2016
Dr. Cesar Astuhuaman, (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru) will present his work on conducting archaeological research in museum collections and on the biography of those collections.

Thursday, 31 March


Nila Hoffman: "How the teacher/scholar model led me to study women’s food practices in Zagreb"