SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Ontario East |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
FOR-363T: “What Produced This Feeling?" Marking The Passing Of Mark Leone And His Contributions To Archaeology Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew M. Palus, University of Maryland Chair: Christopher N. Matthews, Montclair State University “What Produced This Feeling?" Marking The Passing Of Mark Leone And His Contributions To Archaeology |
| 1:30pm - 5:30pm |
FOR-313T: Atlantic Pasts, Caribbean Futures: Honoring the Scholarship, Mentorship and Service of Doug Armstrong Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Mark Hauser, Northwestern University Chair: Laurie Wilkie, University of California Berkeley Atlantic Pasts, CaribbeanFutures: Honoring the Scholarship, Mentorship and Service of Doug Armstrong |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
SYM-141AT: Archaeologies of Black and Indigenous Sovereignty Part 1 Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Madison Aubey, UCLA Discussant: Wade Campbell, Boston University Africatown, a Post-Apocalyptic Future Making Project 9:15am - 9:30am ‘Sovereignty’ in 18th c. Mexico 9:30am - 9:45am Back-to-Africa, Back 2 Barbados: Two Centuries of Experiments in Pan Africanism 9:45am - 10:00am On oral insistence: Relating Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Dialogue in Mi'kma'ki 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Meet Me at the Baobab: Heritage Trees as Markers of Black Sovereignty and Ancestral Connection 10:30am - 11:00am 15min presentation + 15min break Science Fiction, Sovereignty and Archaeologies of Life Otherwise 11:00am - 11:15am Negotiating Indigenous Cultural Heritage Resource Sovereignty 11:15am - 11:30am Back to Africa: the Remains of the Black Star Line 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Slippery Commodities: Eel Fishing, Race, and the Pursuit of Profit in Northeast America's Waterways |
| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
SYM-141BT: Archaeologies of Black and Indigenous Sovereignty Part 2 Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Madison Aubey, UCLA Discussant: François G. Richard, University of Chicago Liberian Sovereignty and the Stuff of Statecraft 1:45pm - 2:00pm Epistemic Dispossession, Epistemic Repair: Anthropology’s Role in Rewriting the Archive 2:00pm - 2:30pm 15min presentation + 15min break On the Road to Rebellion: Insurrectionist Infrastructures and the Pursuit of Sovereignty among Southern Yukatek Maya 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Belongings and Place: Relational Sovereignty Beyond the Nation-State 3:00pm - 3:15pm Indigenous Sovereignty and ‘Creole’ Indigeneity: Myth, Politics of Recognition, and Liberatory Futures on the Sierra Leone Peninsula 3:15pm - 3:30pm Sovereignty & Black Cemeteries 3:30pm - 3:45pm Coastal Convergences: Oyster Use and the Politics of Placemaking at Fort Mose 3:45pm - 4:00pm Subsistence Sovereignty: Land And Food In/Securities In Wai‘tu kubuli 4:00pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Reclaiming Stewardship: Community-Rooted Heritage Management in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Shadow of Colonial Extraction |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
SYM-310T: Unburying Black Towns: Archaeologies of Black Freedom, Erasure, and Mobility Across North America Location: Ontario East Chair: Nkem M. Ike, University of Toronto Discussant: Alicia D. Odewale, Archaeology Rewritten Global Landscapes of Emancipation: Concurrent Temporalities of Freedom Making 9:15am - 9:30am Unearthing Black Experience of Post-Transfer St Croix Through Displaced Archives 9:30am - 9:45am Group Fugitivity and Maritime Marronage: Navigating Rival Landscapes in Loyalist New Brunswick 9:45am - 10:00am Underground Landscapes: Black Deployment of the Landscape at Six Penny Creek in Nineteenth Century Southeastern Pennsylvania. 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break The Largest Plot: Oral Histories, Landscape Archaeology, and the Dan and Mamie Homesite 10:30am - 10:45am “I can’t even remember what was there:” Articulating the Life and Belongings of Bessie Black During the 1908 Springfield, Illinois Race Massacre 10:45am - 11:00am Outlaws and Protectors: Rewriting the Archaeology of Black Cowboys in the West 11:00am - 11:15am Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain. Black Geographies of the Bay Area 11:15am - 11:30am Striking for Freedom: Black Agency and Resistance in California’s Gold Rush at Negro Hill 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Exactly, what is a Town? Historical Archaeology of an African American WWII Military Camp in Alaska |
| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
GEN 16 T: The Archaeology of the Black American Experience Location: Ontario East Chair: Zoe I. Brown, The University of Akron Shaping Home in Unhomely Spaces: Ceramics, Homeplaces, and the Politics of Belonging on a Chesapeake Plantation 1:45pm - 2:00pm Domestic Spiritualities at Kingsley Plantation (1814-1839) 2:00pm - 2:15pm Defining Enslavement's Contributions to a University: The University of Maryland and The 1856 Project 2:15pm - 2:30pm Storage Space at the 1857 Slave Dwelling at Poplar Forest 2:30pm - 2:45pm Mapping Black Life through Imaginative Fabulation: A Comparison of Plantation Cartography and Artifact Distribution of Enslaved Laborers 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Just Below the Pasture Grass: The Surprising Discovery, Testing, and Data Recovery Excavations of the 1784–1940s McDowell-Gilbert Site (15Fa408) in Fayette County, Kentucky 3:15pm - 3:30pm Brown’s Farm: An Archaeological Investigation of an African American Farmstead in Cambria County, Pennsylvania 3:30pm - 3:45pm Understanding The Materiality Of Racial Uplift, Then And Now 3:45pm - 4:00pm Healthcare Access and Agency in Material Culture: Transitions in Louisville's West End, 1870-1915 4:00pm - 4:15pm Flowerpots and Ginger Ale: The Great Migration Heritage Hidden in a Metro Park 4:15pm - 4:30pm The Archaeology of a Black, Rural Residential Site |