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When: Thursday, February 27th at 3:30pm MST

In-Person: 2-20B Digital Scholarship Centre (2nd floor, Cameron Library)

Online: via Zoom, required

On Thursday, February 27 at 3:30 MT, join IPIA scholars Lyndsay Dagg, Stephanie Halmhofer, and Dawn Wambold as they discuss their diverse projects, which are united by the common thread of using archaeology to draw stories of the past from the landscape.

Topics will include:

• “Studying Historical Landscapes: Combining Archives and Remote Sensing Techniques” (Lyndsay Dagg): combining geospatial technologies with archival documentation to conduct research at historical archaeological sites.
• “Contested Landscapes: Métis Relationships with Southern Alberta” (Dawn Wambold): the concept of contested landscapes and how archaeology can contribute to fostering better understanding and meaningful connections moving forward.
• “Ideological Landscapes: Using Archives and Archaeology to Examine Conspiritual Landscapes in British Columbia” (Steph Halmhofer): using archival materials, Census information, and archaeology to examine how Brother XII and the Aquarian Foundation cult built their landscapes in Southern BC to both reflect and reinforce their conspirituality.

This will be a hybrid event; join us in person in room 2-20B of the Digital Scholarship Centre or online via Zoom (). For online attendees, registration is required.

The Speakers:

Lyndsay Dagg recently completed her MA in anthropology under Dr. Kisha Supernant at the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the º£½ÇÉçÇø. Her research focused on using geospatial technologies including Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and GIS to study Metis landscapes. Prior to that she received a BSc in Anthropology from the University of Victoria where she worked on coastal sites and studied historic cemeteries. Lyndsay's research interests include landscape archaeology, GIS, non-invasive and digital technologies, community-based archaeology, historical archaeology, and cemetery studies. She is currently a research assistant at the IPIA.

Dawn Wambold is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and a PhD student at the º£½ÇÉçÇø. Born and raised between the Bow and Red Deer Rivers, and within sight of the Rocky Mountains, Dawn continues to live in the same lands that her ancestors were intimately connected to. As a scholar at the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, she is honoured to be able to tell the stories of her ancestors using archaeology. Her research focuses on the lives of the Métis in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan during the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Steph Halmhofer is a PhD student whose research is focused on Brother XII and the Aquarian Foundation, a 1920s conspiritual cult who built their headquarters in southern British Columbia. She is interested in how ideologies become materialized in landscapes and uses a variety of archival sources to understand the Aquarian Foundation’s ideologies, which combined New Age spiritual beliefs regarding humanity’s transition into the Age of Aquarius with antisemitic conspiracy theories about a secret cabal of powerful elites creating a world dictatorship. She applies archival information to archaeological landscapes to examine how Brother XII and the Aquarian Foundation constructed their three island communes to reflect and reinforce different aspects of their conspiritual ideologies.