Student research conference

11:00 am  - 3:00pm, CORNETT B235 

11:00 am Welcome & Territorial Acknowledgement

• Solenne Castro: The Importance of Engaging and Thought-Provoking Elements
• Sebastien Falkenberg: Hands of the Paleolithic – Missing or Manipulated? An experimental examination of hand stencils with “missing” digits
• Carol Barbon, Shelby Andrews, Alex Bierlmeier, Ben Choinski: Beneath the Ink: The Hidden Craft of Medieval Manuscripts
• Kayden Russell Black: Googledybunkers: Pseudo-Archaeology and Questions of Research Dissemination

1:30 pm - Afternoon - honours session

• Dana Frederick: Reframing Food Sovereignty in Eastern Cuba: Resilience and Agency Among Small-Scale Farming Communities
• Beatrice McIntosh: Community Practices and Dynamic Traditions Fostered by Jewish Post-Secondary Students in Victoria, BC
• Fynley Calder-Rasmussen: Denial of Compensation for Marine Conservation: Pelagic Northern Fur Sealing as an Indigenous Industry on the Northwest Coast
• Avery Cobby: Childhood Growth: Comparing Long Bone Cortical Thickness and Length in Four Hunter Gatherer Groups
• Skye Bartel-Ens: The Zooarchaeological Study of Sculpin (Cottidae) at an Ancient W̱SÁNEĆ Village Site

10:30 am  - 4:00pm, CORNETT B250 & hallway

1. The Gibbon Lens: Anatomy and Morality in Gibbon Paintings from China, Japan, and Korea. Shannon Stewart 
2. Evaluating leopard predation pressure on chimpanzee temporal and spatial habitat use in West Africa. Sarah Stockdale 
3. Siau Island Tarsier Conservation. Erika Vandersluys and Jonvie Lockhart 
4. Autism in Anthropology. Katherine Taylor-Hood 
5. Turnshoes: An Exploration of Medieval Footwear Production and Practices. Gwaiidon Duckworth-White 
6. “Sweet Responses Still Repeating”: How Sacred Harp Singing Persists To This Day. Tyan Cherepuschak 
7. Burnt Brilliance: Exploring Charcoal's Artistic Influence in Prehistoric France. Jonvie Lockhart and Erika Vandersluys 
8. Decolonizing Indigenous Heritage in Public Spaces: What’s Left Unsaid? Royal Dedora 
9. Cultivated Wilderness: Resource Management Practices that Supported Indigenous Existence on the Northwest Coast. Micah James 
10. Kelp! Where are all the vegetables in my archaeological record? Sebastien Falkenberg 
11. Is Life Still Precious? Exploring the Legacy of Human Stewardship on the Environment. Gabe Sayers 
12. You Recovered Some Shells – Why Should We Care? The Importance of Cultural Resource Management in Protecting At-Risk Archaeological Sites along the Northwest Coast: A Case Study of the Waters Edge Road Site DdRu-96. Lily Collins 
13. Following paths into the past: Grease trails of the Northwest Coast as networks of power and exchange. Anuk David and Lily Roemer 
14. Reclaiming the Past: Traditional Knowledge and the Impacts of Archaeological Practices on Indigenous Burial Sites of the Northwest Coast. Grace Hennebery and Beth Dow 
15. Archaeologists in search of wet blankets: How wetlands can aid our understanding of blanket weaving traditions in the Pacific Northwest. Miranda Mail 
16. Conflicts, Social Hierarchies and How They Materialize in the Archaeological and Ethno-historical Records of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Cooper Foxall and Jonas Kobrc 
17. Grave Inclusions on the Northwest Coast: Social Hierarchies and the Impact of European Contact. Jen Preece 
18. “We Were Farmers”: Ancestral Coast Salish Wapato Management and the Redefinition of Social Complexity on the Northwest Coast. Anna Jensen 
19. Material Evidence of Intangible Culture on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Grace Taylor 
20. Goat Horn Bracelets: appearance, significance, and disappearance. Kaia Carr-Meehan 
21. Lost Dogs: The disappearance of the Coast Salish Wooly dog. James Belknap 
22. Red and White: Rockfish as a Supplementary Marine Resource for Salmon Fishing in the Southern Haida Gwaii. Nobuto Arai
23. Reframing Food Sovereignty in Eastern Cuba: Resilience and Agency Among Small-Scale Farming Communities. Dana Frederick (JCURA) 
24. The Zooarchaeological Study of Sculpin (Cottidae) at an Ancient W̱SÁNEĆ Village Site. Bartel-Ens, Skye (JCURA) 
25. Denial of Compensation for Marine Conservation: Pelagic Northern Fur Sealing as an Indigenous Industry on the Northwest Coast. Fynley Calder-Rasmussen (JCURA)
26. May the fire continue guiding our path: Human relations with portable lamps a comparative analysis. Fabiola Sanchez Baldera 

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)