Past Speakers

Please see below for information on past speakers and presentations:

"Rethinking the Mapuche History"
April 02, 2024

Dr. Ingrid de Jong, Universidad de Buenos Aires

"Palm Groves in Amazonia: Natural or Cultural"
March 28, 2024

Dr. Gustavo G. Politis, Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

“The earliest peopling of the Americas: An archaeogenetic perspective”
March 05, 2020
Dr. Cosimo Posth, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

“New perspectives on high-resolution environmental archaeology in Canada: Shell middens as climate archives”
February 03, 2020
Dr. Meghan Burchell, Memorial University

“Archaeological Potential of Caguanes National Park, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba”
March 14, 2019
José Armando Caraballo Yera, Cuba

“Indigenous Place Names on the Continent of Islands”
November 14, 2018
Dr. Ivan Roksandic

“New Research in Bioarchaeology of Cuba and the Caribbean”
March 22, 2017
Dr. Mirjana Roksandic and Dr. Yadira Chinique De Armas

“The life and health in the British Royal Navy serving in Antigua, West Indies during the Napoleonic War era (c. 1800)”
February 8, 2017
Dr. Tamara Varney, Lakehead University

"Indigenous Passages to Cuba: The Indigenous Diaspora to Cuba (and the Caribbean) During the Last Half Millennium”
January 26, 2017
Dr. Jason Yaremko, University of Winnipeg

"Jamaican Archaeology: Outline and Issues "
November 14, 2016
Dr. Ivor Conolley

"The impact of Nicaragua Canal on Indigenous and Afrodescendant heritage"
March 23, 2016
Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, University of Winnipeg
Dr. Gabriel Nemogá, University of Winnipeg
Dr. Eric Thrift, University of Manitoba
Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, York University

“Faith Without Fidel: Censorship and Allegory in Late Socialist Cuban Bureaucrat Comedies”
January 13, 2016
Dr. Laura-Zoë Humphreys, University of Manitoba

"Recent Archeological Applications of Stable Isotopes"
November 18, 2015
Dr. William Buhay, Univerity of Winnipeg

“Subsistence Strategies and Food Consumption Patterns of “Fisher-Gatherer” Populations from Western Cuba: From Traditional Perspectives to Current Analytical Results.”
October 23, 2015
Dr. Yadira Chinique De Armas, University of Winnipeg

"Mabuiga, Garifuna: A Brief Grammatical and Phonological Sketch"
January 14, 2015
Dr. Rob Hagiwara, University of Manitoba