{"id":50902,"date":"2018-10-16T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=50902"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:41","slug":"carleton-to-host-shannon-lecture-on-pseudoarchaeology-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-to-host-shannon-lecture-on-pseudoarchaeology-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 to Host Shannon Lecture on Pseudoarchaeology and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n 杏吧原创 to Host Shannon Lecture on Pseudoarchaeology and Social Media\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

杏吧原创 University\u2019s Department of History<\/a> will host the Shannon Lecture #InventedFantasies \u2013 Using Social Media to Talk 杏吧原创 Pseudoarchaeology<\/a><\/em> presented by Steph Halmhofer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 at 1 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Room 2017, Dunton Tower, 杏吧原创
\nInfo<\/strong>: This event is free and open to the public. A campus map can be found online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media are invited to attend the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skeletons of giants in British Columbia, people using psychic abilities to find proof that the empire of Atlantis included Nova Scotia, a cult in Quebec proposing aliens invented life on Earth. These are topics of pseudoarchaeology \u2013 a real concern facing both archaeologists and non-archaeologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the rising popularity of social media, it\u2019s not difficult to imagine how quickly pseudoarchaeological theories can spread online. The lecture will discuss what pseudoarchaeology is, how to identify it, the racism of pseudoarchaeology, how various media platforms are used to spread it and how social media can be used to talk about and debunk pseudoarchaeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创 the Shannon Lecture Series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The 2018 Shannon Lecture series examines \u201cbad archaeology\u201d \u2013 what happens when the practice of archaeology is done in bad faith? Modern archaeology emerged from a colonialist setting where the heroic lone (male) adventure wrestled knowledge in exotic (to him) places. In many ways, the field has never shed that association and the promise of adventure and heroism. The 2018 series of lectures will explore some of the ways \u201cbad archaeology\u201d has meaningful consequences \u2013 especially in the Canadian context. By understanding \u201cbad\u201d archaeology, we may begin to understand the power of \u201cgood\u201d archaeology for our present day and age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shannon Lecture series is made possible by the Shannon Fund, an endowment created by Lois May Long, who was a friend of the 杏吧原创 History Department and longtime support for both students and faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n杏吧原创 University
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杏吧原创 University\u2019s Department of History will host the Shannon Lecture #InventedFantasies \u2013 Using Social Media to Talk 杏吧原创 Pseudoarchaeology presented by Steph Halmhofer. When: Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 at 1 p.m. Where: Room 2017, Dunton Tower, 杏吧原创 Info: This event is free and open to the public. A campus map can be found online. Media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":50907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[80,106],"class_list":["post-50902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-fass","tag-history"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50909,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902\/revisions\/50909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}