Preliminary Program
Symposium:
Decolonizing “Prehistory”: Deep Time and Topological Knowledge in the Americas
Rostock University
Venue: Schwerin, Hotel Speicher am Ziegelsee, 21-23 June, 2018
Thursday, 21 June
5:30 pm Welcome by Mayor of Schwerin Rico Badenschier & Introduction by Gesa Mackenthun
6:30 pm Dinner
Chair: Gesa Mackenthun
8 pm Keynote (via skype): Competing Narratives of Ancestry in Donald Trump’s America: Personal DNA Testing, the “Ethno-State,” Native American Land Rights, and the Imperative for Scholarly Intervention
Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona, Tucson
Friday, 22 June
Chair: Alexander Bräuer
9 am - 9:45 am Yucatec “Maya” Historicity and Identity Constructions: The Case of Coba
Jessica Christie, East Carolina University, Greenville
9:50 am - 10:35 am ‘Scientific’ vs. Local Narratives About Pre-Hispanic Sites: Tulum as a Case Study
Mathieu Picas, University of Barcelona & Margarita Díaz-Andreu, University of Barcelona/ICREA
10:35 am - 10:50 am Coffee break
Chair: Daniel L. Smail
11 am - 11:45 am “Born of the Soil": Demography's Roots and the Refusal of Oral Tradition
Christen Mucher, Smith College, Northampton, MA
11:50 am - 12:35 pm Mammoth Cave, Poe, and Speculative (Pre)Histories
Melissa Gniadek, University of Toronto
12:45 pm - 2 pm Lunch break
2 pm - 7 pm Bus Transfer to Gross Raden: Presentation of Slavic Ceremonial Center & Archaeological Museum
Saturday, 23 June
Chair: Hartmut Lutz
9 am - 9:45 amRed Earth, White Lies, Sapiens, and the Deep Politics of Knowledge.
Phil Deloria, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
9:45 am - 10:35 am Reversing the Terminal Narrative: The Mythology of Conquest and Extinction on the Borders of the Spanish Empire
Michael Wilcox, Stanford University, CA
10:35 am - 10:50 am Coffee break
Chair: John Munro
10:50 am -11:35 am Witnessing catastrophe: Correlations between catastrophic paleoenvironmental events and First Nations oral traditions in the Pacific Northwest
Rick Budhwa, Crossroads Cultural Resource Management, Simon Fraser University, BC
11:40 am - 12:25 pm Remembering Gi’was: Indigenous Landmark Legends and the Politics of American Antiquity
Gesa Mackenthun, Rostock
1 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch break
Chair: Stefan Krause
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm A historiography of indigenous archaeology in British Columbia
Jeff Oliver, University of Aberdeen
3:20 pm - 4:05 pm Prairies, Ice, and Oil: Settler Colonialism and Deep Time around the Southern Salish Sea
Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm Coffee break
Chair: Susanne Lachenicht
4:20 pm - 5:05 pm Myth Making and Unmaking: Erasing and Creating the Sacred in Settler Colonial Strategies of Displacement.
Keith Carlson, University of Sasketchewan, Saskatoon
5:05 pm - 5:50 pm (via skype) Indigenous Peoples and the New Doctrine of ‘Discovery’: Bioarchaeology, Archaeogenomics, and the Narrative of “American Pre-History”
Rebecca Tsosie, University of Arizona, Tucson
6 pm Final Discussion
8 pm Dinner
Discussants: Susanne Lachenicht, Bayreuth; Hartmut Lutz, Greifswald; John Munro, St. Mary’s University, Halifax/Rostock; Daniel L. Smail, Harvard; Astrid Windus, Hamburg
Student Assistants: Kathleen Aldinger; Lone Killeh; Kristina Weber
Organizer: DFG Project “Constructions of American Antiquity”, Rostock University
Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun; Stefan Krause; Alexander Bräuer
Universität Rostock, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
August Bebel-Str. 28, 18055 Rostock, Germany
Contact: gesa.mackenthun@uni-rostock.de; stefan.krause2@uni-rostock.de; alexander.braeuer@uni-rostock.de