January 20, 2018 - Lecture at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center - Official Flier, Online Component, and Registration Instructions

The lecture for January 20th is set. Many thanks to Schlitz Audubon Nature Center and the School of Continuing and Online Learning at Cardinal Stritch University. Below you'll find an image of the flier as well as a downloadable PDF. For teachers, I've included here the PDF of the handout we'll use at the lecture. The flier and handout have instructions for accessing the online enrichment materials. We very much hope you'll participate online and in person! A video detailing registration for the free and optional online component is also posted below.

Thanks and come on out to participate in archaeological science

Click here for flier PDF to print and post.

Teachers: Click here for the handout.

 

The 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association - Success and Inspiration!

The 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association from November 29-December 3rd was a great success for the Milwaukee Community Archaeology Project. David presented a co-authored talk with Debra Schwinn, who was at home teaching anthropology to her Shorewood High School students.

A resounding take-away from the meeting underscores the importance of MCAP's work: anthropology is crucial for a civil, democratic society and so anthropology needs to be robustly publicly engaged. Anthropology as a discipline aims to make the world safe for human diversity, as Ruth Benedict said. Archaeology -- as a subdiscipline of anthropology -- provides a deep historical dimension to this imperative.

One way to make the world 'safe for human differences' is to involve the public in research from the start to finish, wherever possible. The broadest benefit of this strategy is that it allows non-academics to better appreciate scientific and historical research processes and cultivates a skepticism towards political attacks on science and scholarship.

All gravity aside, the AAA was also joyful and fun, and not without a run-in or two with anthropological luminaries.

"Here's lookin' at you, Franz Boas"

Public Lecture and Interactive Online Seminar scheduled for January 20, 2018 at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

Join Schlitz Audubon director of conservation and me at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Bayside, WI on January 20th for a discussion of preliminary findings from archaeological investigations of their lakeside property on Lake Michigan. This in-person lecture and discussion is part of a collaboration between the School of Continuing and Online Learning at Cardinal Stritch University and Schlitz Audubon Nature Center.

The in-person lecture will be supported by interactive online materials that will go live on January 6, 2018. Online participation is optional, and you do not need to participate online to attend the in person lecture. To register online, visit online.stritch.edu/academics/courses and select the red 'community partners' tab. The discussion will continue online until February 20th, 2018.

The Schlitz Audubon Nature Center is located at 1111 Brown Deer Road, Bayside (Milwaukee County), Wisconsin, 53217. The lecture is free for students showing valid IDs, adults paying admission to or members of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center.

Come out, learn, and join the conversation about local history and ecology!

Site Found! Schlitz Audubon Nature Center / Fox Point (Milwaukee), Wisconsin

Over the summer and into the autumn, Dr. Pacifico, the School of Continuing and Online Learning (SCOL), and the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center (SANC) explored the potential for a partnership.

As of October 27th we're going to move forward exploring the possibility of future and sustained archaeological research on their property as a partnership between SANC, SCOL, and MCAP.

The SANC lakeside property in Fox Point is known as the former pastureland for the Schlitz Brewing Company draft horses. However, previous to the property's acquisition by Schlitz at the end of the 19th century, the property was the site of several farmsteads settled by European immigrants from areas now part of Germany and the Netherlands. Documentary and archaeological excavation will tell us much about life for the early settlers of this area and the founding of Milwaukee.

Of course, this area was previously settled by American Indian people. The Schlitz Audubon Nature Center site is reported to have been the location of scattered campsites, villages, and workshops and so archaeological investigation on the property could extend our knowledge of local history and original residents even further into the past.

Ponencia en Lima / Presentation in Lima

Lic. Jorge Gamboa y yo escribimos juntos una ponencia sobre 'voces subalternidades' en arqueologia peruana. Titulada "Entre la tradición, la revisión y la subalternidad. Perspectivas sobre la práctica de la arqueología en Perú," lo presentamos en el simposio “Narrativas Subalternas del Pasado: Voces desde la Arqueología Peruana.” El simposio se ubico en el Instituto Frances de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru el 1 y 2 de septiembre 2017.

Jorge Gamboa, Lic., and I wrote together a paper on 'subaltern voices' in Peruvian archaeology. Titled "Between tradition, revision, and subalternity: perspectives on the practice of archaeology in Peru," we presented it as part of the simposium "Subaltern narratives of the past: Voices from Peruvian archaeology." The syposium was held in the Instituto Frances de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, September 1 and 2, 2017.

Jorge Gamboa con David Pacifico. Miraflores, Lima, Peru. Sept. 2, 2017

Manuscript Submitted: Neighborhoods from the Perspective of Anthropological Archaeology

The full manuscript of Neighborhoods from the Perspective of Anthropological Archaeology has been submitted for review to the Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. Congratulations on the hard work, excellent contributions, and sustained effort by: Ricardo R. Antorcha Pedemonte, Alleen Betzenhauser, Richard Blanton, David Chicoine, Bonnie J. Clark, Stephen Dueppen, Lane F. Fargher, April Kamp-Whittaker, Mark Lehner, Timothy R. Pauketat, Monica L. Smith, Elizabeth C. Stone, Edward Swenson, Lise A. Truex, Steven Wernke, Ashley Whitten!

Thanks are in order to each author for contributing to this project, which goes all the way back to our original CFP in 2014 for the 80th Annual Meeting of the SAA!

A Post-Anarchist Approach to Museum Anthropology - Society for Applied Anthropology 2017

Dr. William Wood (UWM Anthropology) was gracious enough to invite me to write a conference paper with him on anarchism, public anthropology, and museums. Because of my new job I was unable to deliver the paper in person, so Dr. Wood was good enough to present it on March 6th in Santa Fe. And the SfAA has archived the recording, which you can listen to here:  http://sfaa.net/podcast/index.php/podcasts/2017/linking-archaeology-museums-and-communities/

Short Piece in Society for American Archaeology's Archaeological Record

Thanks to Lewis Borck (University of Leiden) and Matthew Sanger (Binghamton) as well as the many other contributors to the latest SAA Archaeological Record (Vol. 17 No. 1) for their contribution and invitation to me to participate in the Anarchy and Archaeology volume. The topics covered range well beyond strictly archaeological topics, and so many anthropologists, philosophers, educators, etc. will find provocative material there. How wonderful also to reconnect in a collaborative way with a former TA of mine, Uzma Rizvi! Here's the link: http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/TheSAAArchaeologicalRecord/tabid/64/Default.aspx

2017 Teaching and Learning Symposium at UWM

On January 12 I had the pleasure to participate in the 2nd Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium at UW-Milwaukee. Organized by their Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the symposium was an all-day event that brought together over 200 brilliant and enthusiastic teachers. I presented my emerging project developing a Framework & Freedom approach to increasing student creativity in the classroom. I proposed that 'play' is an ideal form of student engagement, where 'play' follows Marcuse's (1955) definition of an activity done for its own sake, not for an indirect benefit. I then led about 12 college teachers of diverse experience levels (and languages) through an exercise that taught the approach while modelling a Framework & Freedom approach. The entire packet of support materials - including the power point, in-seminar exercise, and example class exercises - is linked here.