{"id":51908,"date":"2018-11-16T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=51908"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:40","slug":"carleton-to-host-shannon-lecture-on-digital-colonialism-and-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-to-host-shannon-lecture-on-digital-colonialism-and-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 to Host Shannon Lecture on Digital Colonialism and Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n 杏吧原创 to Host Shannon Lecture on Digital Colonialism and Archaeology\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 There is No \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d in Digital Archaeology<\/a><\/em> presented by Katherine Cook (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 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

Colonization is the extraction of resources from those without power. Knowing this, what is extracted in digital colonialism and what does this have to do with archaeology in Canada?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering the critiques, questions and recent fallout involving digital corporations, capitalism and politics, we are more acutely aware of the dark underbelly of the digital world. Despite this, many still act as though digital technology is the answer to solving the great challenges facing archaeology today \u2013 namely the lack of equity, inclusivity, access and the unwavering manifestations of neo-colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This discussion will consider the realities of digitally disrupting archaeology. The lecture will explore the opportunities this presents, but also the dangers it poses, to argue that not all data, not all audiences, and not all archaeologists are treated equally in digital practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook will propose that as digital archaeology will not save us from bad archaeology, the digital must be decolonized first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lecture is co-presented with the support of the Ca<\/a>rleton University Institute for Data Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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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Media Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Reid
\nMedia Relations Officer
\n杏吧原创 University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven_Reid3@杏吧原创.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 University\u2019s Department of History will host the Shannon Lecture There is No \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d in Digital Archaeology presented by Katherine Cook (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al). When: Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 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":50646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[191,80,106],"class_list":["post-51908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-data-science","tag-fass","tag-history"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51908","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=51908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51912,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51908\/revisions\/51912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}