One-Day Workshop with Prof. Miriam Stark (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa) (Conducted in English)

Part I: Materiality and Anthropology 物質性與人類學
Date: 17/10/2016 (Mon)
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm (lecture, fieldwork experience sharing, and discussion)
Venue: NAH401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Content/theme:

1. Discuss how social boundaries and ethnoarchaeological survey relates to the study of anthropology
2. Discuss how archaeologists conduct and then apply findings from actualistic research
3. Discuss the relationship between cultural anthropological theory and archaeological practice
4. Students discuss their research projects and Prof. Stark gives feedbacks

Registration on or before 11/10/2016 (Tue) Quota: 15-20
Registration Link: https://goo.gl/WKQOge
Light lunch and refreshment will be provided
Confirmation email will be sent out by 13/10/2016 (Thurs)

Part II: Archaeology in Asia 考古學在亞洲
Date: 17/10/2016 (Mon)
Time: 3:30am-6:30pm (lecture, fieldwork experience sharing, and discussion)
Venue: NAH401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Content/theme:

1. Overview of Asian archaeology
2. Some Very Cool Discoveries that make Asian Archaeology interesting to study, such as human evolution, early pottery, ancient cities
3. Selected methodologies that Asian Archaeology has contributed to world archaeology
4. Some of Prof. Stark’s experiences in Asian archaeology
5. Why Cambodian archaeology is so wonderful?

Registration on or before 11/10/2016 (Tue) Quota: 15-20
Registration Link: https://goo.gl/cJKQKT
Light refreshment will be provided
Confirmation email will be sent out by 13/10/2016 (Thurs)

Visiting Scholar’s Profile:
Miriam Stark is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her PhD at the University of Arizona (1993) was an ethnoarchaeological study of ceramic production and exchange among tribal Kalinga potters in the highland Philippines, and her subsequent Smithsonian post-doctoral fellowship used Kalinga ceramic data to test the analytical limits of compositional techniques. Dr. Stark has conducted field-based archaeological work in Cambodia since joining the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1995, when she launched the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project in collaboration with Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. She also joined the Greater Angkor Project as a Partner Investigator in 2010; this international collaboration (between the University of Sydney, EFEO, APSARA National Authority and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa) focuses on urban organization in Angkor. In 2014 she co-founded the Khmer Production and Exchange Project in partnership with APSARA National Authority, the University of New England (Australia) and Santa Clara University. She has edited or co-edited five books, authored/co-authored more than 70 journal articles and chapters, and serves on the Executive Board of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.

All are welcome! Priority will be given to anthropological students and staff.