Student research conference

11:30 am - Welcome & Territorial Acknowledgement

11:40 am - “I’m Just Asking Questions”: An Analysis of White Supremacist Pseudo-Archaeology. Rylan Vandersluis (Honours)

12:00 pm - A Time for Recollection: Exploring the Temporality of Victoria’s Sea-To-Sea Green Blue Belt Campaign. Audrey Lefort (Honours)

12:20 pm - Is Cannabis Changing our Relations? An Evaluation of British Columbia's Attempts of Economic Reconciliation. Michael Ghazarian (Honours)

12:40 pm - “Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei?” An Exploration of Yonsei And Gosei Japanese Canadian Identities. Djuna Nagasaki (Honours)

1:00 pm - Break ~ Snacks        

1:20 pm - Theories of Value: Beads & CS:GO. Roberto Alberto (Graduate student)

1:40 pm - Reframing Crisis: Photographing Cuban Futures. Graydon Smith (Graduate student)

• Adaptive Responses in Pelvic Morphology During Growth in Forager Populations. MacKinnon, Marla; Kurki, H.; Cowgill, L.; Harrington, L. 
• “Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei?” An Exploration of Yonsei and Gosei Japanese Canadian Identities. Nagasaki, Djuna (JCURA)
• Ithaca Hours. Sandberg-Gray, Sofia
• A Time for Recollection: Exploring the Temporality of Victoria’s Sea- to-Sea Green Blue Belt Campaign. Lefort, Audrey (JCURA)
• La Chouenne: Monnaie Charlevoisienne. Lefort, Audrey
• Cooking a 15th Century French Meal. Lefort, Audrey; Nielsen, Anjuli; Bourret, Nick
• Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur. Bouck, Emma; Millious, Janelle
• Ring-Tailed Lemur Behavioural Ecology and Conservation. Kurpjuweit, Sophie; Emley, Lauren 
• Student Visions on Sustainability Exhibit. Bartel-Ens, Skye; Carr-Meehan, Kaia; Jensen, Anna; Link, Hannah; Loomis, Nico; Malcolm, Molly;  Northey, Tanyssa; Reggi Pecora, Luiz Henrique; Sia, Malcolm; Wilson, Natalya
• From the Ground Up: A Comparative Analysis of Virtual Reflectance Transformation Imaging and Traditional RTI in the Context of Cemetery Conservation. Bell, Cooper (JCURA)
• AI and Relations - The future of connection: how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we connect and build relationships. Verdejo, Mariana (VCURA)
• Contextualizing Community Currency: Understanding the Comox Valley LETS. Campbell, Nicole (VKURA) 
• ANTH100 Infographic Presentations
  • The Evolution of Horticulture. Martin, Ashie; Scott, Connor
  • The Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy. Bamford, P.
  • Polygyny. Shimizu, A.
  • Inuit Sealing. Burkett, D.

MORNING SESSION (10 am-noon)

• 10:00 - Welcome: Elder Dr. Skip Dick ləx̌ix̌ələq

• 10:10 - Indigenous Disability and the Case for Intentional Invisibility: Maia Reynard

• 10:30 - A Landscape Archaeological Approach to Accumulative Stone Throwing in Western Chimpanzees: Robyn Nakano

• 10:50 - Ancient Indigenous Fisheries Reveal a Warming Ocean in the Northeast Pacific: The Palaeothermometer Approach: Dylan Hillis, Robert Gustas, Daniel Pauly, William W. L. Cheung, Anne K. Salomon, and Iain McKechnie

• 11:10 - Shelling Oysters Short: Historical Ecology of Olympia Oysters in the Salish Sea: Taylor Vollman

• 11:30 - Posters & Munchies

KEYNOTE SPEAKER (noon)

• Nicole F. Smith, BA, MA UVic Anthropology: Nicole Smith is an archaeologist, founder of Archaeology in Schools, and author of the new book Dig Deep: Connecting Archaeology, Oceans and Us. She is also the Cultural Heritage Initiatives Coordinator for the UN Ocean Decade Collaborative Centre for the Northeast Pacific, and a steering committee member of the Clam Garden Network. She has been involved in archaeological research on the B.C. coast since 2000, collaborating most closely with First Nations communities, the Hakai Institute, Parks Canada, and university colleagues. She has taught undergraduate courses at the University of Victoria, Camosun College, and the Bamfield Marine Sciences Center, and loves working with educators to bring archaeology into elementary and high school classrooms. She believes that archaeological stories can inspire people, empower indigenous youth, and facilitate cross-cultural education and understanding. Nicole holds a BA and MA in Anthropology from UVic.

AFTERNOON SESSION: Honours Presentations (1-3pm)

• 1:00 - Peering into the Past: Species Identification of Archaeological Pacific Salmon on Southwest Vancouver Island: Freya Harrison

• 1:15 - Navigating Anthropogenic Landscapes: Behavioural Responses by Great Apes in Disturbed Habitats: Miranda Gilbert

• 1:30 - Source of the Stone: Lithic Procurement and Provisioning at a Desert Refugium in the Azraq Basin, Jordan: Colton Skead

• 1:45 - Honours Question Period

• 2:00 - "Not Just a Forum, but a Community": Incel Forums as Sites of Belonging: Paige Leslie

• 2:15 - Coastal Collaboration: Exploring Emerging Frameworks to Equitably Tackle Marine Debris on the BC Coast: Oriana Smy

• 2:30 - The Sounds of míqәn: An Embodied Inquiry of Place, Space, and Perception in Beacon Hill Park: Caitlyn Dubé

• 2:45 - Honours Question Period & closing remarks

CURRENTS will be followed by a showing of La Tumba Mambi, a documentary by DJ Jigue and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier: As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), many French settlers travelled to Eastern Cuba with African enslaved people to escape the revolt. The Tumba Francesa Societies, which were known as a brotherhood and a mutual aid network, emerged from these waves of slave migrations. Eventually, they became integral constituents of Cuban culture. La Tumba Mambi is a docu-fiction film based on the Tumba Francesa, La Caridad de Oriente, which is located in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Through the Society’s youngest member, Flavio, who is collecting information about the Tumba Francesa for a school project, we meet his grand-mother Andrea and mother Queli, two charismatic knowledge keepers of their rich cultural traditions. The original film soundtrack composed and produced by Cuban based DJ Jigüe, in collaboration with Tumba Francesa members, is a rhythmic and striking reminder that the present is grounded in a history of struggles for freedom.

• Feminine Endings: The Commemoration of Women across a Rural and Urban Anglican Cemetery in Victoria, BC: Emily Besler-Dean

• Diachronic Developments in the Butchering Patterns of Cattle at Tell Afek, Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective from the Bronze Age: Skyler Buchfink

• Ecological Examination of and Proposed Conservation Strategies for Coquerel's Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli): Abby Flight, Lucy Bridal

• Navigating Anthropogenic Landscapes: Behavioural Responses by Great Apes in Disturbed Habitats: Miranda Gilbert (JCURA scholar)

• When We Meet It’s Hom[i]e[s] Again: A Collaborative Film: Isabella Haley (JCURA scholar), Antonio Rojas, Kwami Marcelo, Joshua Parkins

• Bornean Orangutans: The Gardeners of the Forest: Maya Krieger, Djuna Nagasaki 

• Taking a Break from the Complexity of Society: The Nature of Gaming and Leisure from the Early Bronze Age Levant: Audrey Lefort

• An Assessment of Aging Systems in Zooarchaeology: Ellis Martiskainen (VKURA scholar)

• Connecting Open Science and Archaeology: The University of Victoria Zooarchaeology Lab (UVicZL) Comparative Collection - A Source of Cultural and Ecological Knowledge: Kathryn McKenzie

• Ethno-Graphic Storytelling and Migration: Mariana Montes de Oca Palau (JCURA scholar) 

• Subsistence and Activity Areas at Late Helladic Eleon, Greece: Minah Park

• Conservation Methods for Preserving Wild Populations of the Cross River Gorilla: Cassandra Popoff, Amy Christensen

• Coastal Collaboration: Exploring Emerging Frameworks to Equitably Tackle Marine Debris on the BC Coast: Oriana Smy (JCURA scholar)

• The Scientific Method in Palaeoarchaeology: James Ziolkoski (JCURA scholar)