Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/10/2024
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
LR Wilson Hall Room# 1003

LR Wilson Hall Community Room # 1003

Dr. Myriam Nafte: Mortality, Mediation, and Memorials: Research Overview on the Undisposed Dead

As a forensic anthropologist, Dr. Myriam Nafte is an active advisor and consultant for criminal casework across North America and parts of Latin America. She received a Specialized Honors BA in Medical Anthropology from York University, a BEd degree in Science from Brock University, and completed an MA and PhD in Physical Anthropology [Skeletal Biology] at McMaster University.

She is the author of numerous articles and books including Flesh and Bone: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology; Crime and Measurement: Methods in Forensic Investigation; The Skin of Murder Victims [Editor], and the forthcoming anthology Trophies and Talismans: The Traffic of Human Remains. Currently, Nafte is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at McMaster University where she is developing a research project on prosectors in dissection anatomy.

Upcoming Speaker Series:

Thursday, October 24, 2024 – 11:30am -1:00pm
Location: BSB B139
Brandi MacDonald (Assistant Research Professor, Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR)
Talk Title: Collaborative Research in Aboriginal Rock Art and Archaeological Science: Mining, Land Rights, and Deep Time Histories in the Alligator Rivers Region, Australia

Friday, October 25, 2024 – 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: LR Wilson Hall Rm # 1003
Dr. Rhonda Bathurst (Executive Director, Museum of Ontario Archaeology / Adjunct Research Professor, Western University)
Talk Title: Decolonizing Museum Spaces & Re-imagining Archaeological Stewardship

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