Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/10/2024
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
LR Wilson Hall Room# 1003

Dr. Rhonda Bathurst: Decolonizing Museum Spaces & Re-imagining Archaeological Stewardship

Rhonda Bathurst is the Executive Director of the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, where she leads an institution dedicated to connecting visitors, students, researchers, and Descendant communities with the cultural history and human experience of southern Ontario. With an archaeological background that includes specialized studies ranging from dogs to parasites, and research spanning the Pacific coast to Belize, the desert southwest, Ontario, and Iceland, her interests have primarily focused on understanding the harmonies and dissonance of human and environmental intersections.

Her career path, shaped by opportunities in grant and laboratory administration at McMaster, Western, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Toronto, has been anything but linear. Outside of her professional life, she finds joy in exploring a diversity of cultural expressions, whether through travel, music, writing or dabbling in culinary or visual arts. Her approach to leadership and life is rooted in collaboration, curiosity, and a genuine love for learning.

Upcoming Speaker Series:

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 – 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location: LRW Wilson Hall Rm # 3001
Dr. Stephen Berquist (Postdoctoral Research fellow, University of Warsaw. Center for Andean Studies / Research Association at Archaeology Centre of the University of Toronto)
Talk Title: Taming the Flow: Population movement, politics, and the production of hydropolitical knowledge in the Late Pre-Hispanic Andes.

Friday, November 15, 2024 – 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: LR Wilson Hall Rm # 1003
Dr. Alex Khasnabish (Professor of Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent University)
Talk Title: Black Pills in Clown World: Anthropology at the End of the World

Friday, November 22, 2024 – 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: LR Wilson Hall Rm # 1003
Dr. Paul Szpak (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trent University)
Talk Title: The Landscape of Llama Husbandry in the Andes before the Arrival of the Europeans

Friday, December 6, 2024 – 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: LR Wilson Hall Rm # 1003
Jacquie Fisher (CRM Archaeologist)
Talk Title: Full Circle? – How to Look at CRM Archaeology Through a Different Lens