SYMPOSIUM, 14 May, 2026. 'Mémoires de l’effacement: les villages disparus de l’est du Canada, 16e-21e siècles / Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21st Century.'

Event: Journée d’étude bilingue organisée par/ Bilingual symposium organized by Barry Gaulton et Jean-René Thuot.

Date: 14 mai/May, 2026, 8:30am-7pm (NDT)

Location: Core Science Faculty - CSF531OM, Ocean Frontier Institute, Memorial University, St. John's, NL and on Zoom: https://uqar.zoom.us/j/87634514060?pwd=QHVZqxJXRHimju0PyWWKlsBONRp1rP.1 

Symposium Programme: Memories of Erasure,The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada C16-C21 Programme (PDF)

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MA proposal defences & Poster session (Winter 2026)

The Department will be holding this year's MA proposal defences on Friday 27th March between 12pm-3:40pm at Queen's College.

The first round of proposals will be given between 12pm-1pm (QC-2013) and followed by a poster session in the Great Hall until  2:30pm. A second round of MA proposals will take place between 2:30pm-3:40pm (QC-2013). The thesis proposals are:

• Grégoire Boily: 'French fishing settlements in southwestern Newfoundland: historical and archaeological perspectives.'
• Leah Constantine: 'A contemporary archaeology of graffiti and place-making in St. John's, Newfoundland.'
• Alydia Downs: 'A blooming narrative: examining Norse ironworking at L'Anse aux Meadows.'
• Zophia McGuire: 'Food procurement and climate intersections on the Avalon Peninsula and Ferryland, Newfoundland: 6kya to present.'
• Abraham B. Packard: 'Beetles as microenvironmental disturbance indicators: a pitfall trap survey at L'Anse aux Meadows.'
• Jesse Reid: 'A comparative analysis of microblades from Groswater and Dorset sites in Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Newfoundland.'
• Alyson Tulk: 'Old Town of Gander, Newfoundland: A landscape archaeology of the contemporary past.'

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