SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Cabot |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
SYM-163T: Remaking the City: Archaeology, Mobility, and the Legacies of Urban Renewal Location: Cabot Chair: Rebecca Graff, Lake Forest College Chair: Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University Discussant: Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College 15min intro + 15min presentation Environmental Remediation and Archaeological Sites: When Your Mitigation is My Adverse Effect 9:30am - 9:45am Reframing the Ruins: Urban Archaeology and Contemporary Art 9:45am - 10:00am Between Archaeology and Architecture: Materializing the Silenced Heritage of Little Burgundy 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Growing Futures in Long Shadows: Soil Health in Chicagoland’s Post-Industrial Community Gardens 10:30am - 10:45am A Living City: Urban Renewal’s Legacy Collections in Washington, DC 10:45am - 11:00am Stories Beneath the Sunken Garden: Interdisciplinary Archaeology in an Urban Renewal Landscape 11:00am - 11:15am A Different Tune but the Same Song: Examining the Cycle of Urban Renewal in Nashville 11:15am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 30min discussion Archaeology, Emotions and Urban Displacement: The Working-class Neighborhood of Vaakunakylä in Oulu, Finland |
| 1:30pm - 4:00pm |
SYM-169T: Landscapes of Movement: Research Contributions from the Northeastern U.S. Location: Cabot Chair: Holly Herbster, The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. 15min intro + 15min presentation Cultural Mobility on Martha’s Vineyard 2:00pm - 2:15pm From Duxbury to the Lebanon Crank and Beyond: Migrations of the Sprague Family on New England’s 18th-Century Frontier 2:15pm - 2:30pm “...whatsoever growes well in England, growes as well there”: A Comparison of Macrobotanical Assemblages from Colonial English Sites in New England 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break 300+ Years at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead: New Excavations at the 1635 Quincy Homestead Site in Quincy, Massachusetts 3:00pm - 3:15pm Buildings, Window Glass, and Glassmakers on the Move in Colonial New Jersey 3:15pm - 3:30pm The Institutional Pinelands: Insights from a New Jersey Assemblage 3:30pm - 4:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Work Hard, Play Hard: Life at the Pike Hill Mine in the late 19th Century |
| 9:00am - 11:45am |
SYM-106T: Detroit Historical Archaeology Hustles Harder! Seven Decades of Archaeology in and of the Motor City Location: Cabot Chair: Samantha M. Ellens, Michigan State University The Detroit Remains Sites & Communities Seven Years Later: Successes, Failures, and Transformations 9:15am - 9:30am Foundations of a City: Archaeology Beneath Detroit’s Renaissance Center 9:30am - 9:45am Revealing an African American Neighborhood at Detroit's Campau Park 9:45am - 10:00am Preserve on Ash: children and domestic traditions in North Corktown, Detroit, ca. 1880–1980s 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Labor, Liquor, and Lodging: The Archaeology And Entrepreneurial Life Of A Woman-Owned Saloon And Boarding House In Early 20th-Century Hamtramck, Michigan 10:30am - 10:45am Just Trying to Make a Living. The Archaeology of a Red-Light District in Detroit: Findings from the Femme Beings Project 10:45am - 11:00am Industry in the 313: Industrial Archaeology and Heritage in Michigan (in around and beyond the D) 11:00am - 11:15am From Paradise Valley to Brewster-Douglass and Beyond: Race, Space, and the “Long 20th Century” in Detroit 11:15am - 11:30am From Terrain to Text: An Analysis of the State Historical Markers in Memphis and Detroit 11:30am - 11:45am The Past-Forward Project: Collaborative Archaeology, Heritage Preservation, an Industry Partnership in Response to Detroit's Community Benefits Ordinance |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
FOR-477T: Challenging the Dismantling of Preservation Laws Through Collective Action: A Participatory Forum Location: Cabot Chair: Ellen L. Chapman, Cultural Heritage Partners Chair: Marion F. Werkheiser, Cultural Heritage Partners Challenging the Dismantling of Preservation Laws Through Collective Action: A Participatory Forum |
| 9:00am - 11:45am |
SYM-138T: Deep Mapping and Archaeological Knowledge: Current and Emergent Approaches Location: Cabot Chair: Dan Trepal, Michigan Technological University Chair: Don Lafreniere, Michigan Technological University Discussant: Sarah F. Scarlett, Michigan Technological University 15min intro + 15min presentation NEH Community Deep Mapping Institute- Fostering the Next-Generation of Scholars and Public Professionals 9:30am - 9:45am Building Community Heritage Partnerships in Metro Detroit through Deep Mapping: The Hamtramck Explorer 9:45am - 10:00am Hidden Economies: A Spatial Analysis of Detroit’s Potomac Quarter by the Femme Beings Project 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Facilitating Public-Focused Integration of Cultural Heritage Data via the Spatial History of Charleston 10:30am - 10:45am Glacier, Prairie, Farm: A Start to the Deep Mapping of the Red River Valley 10:45am - 11:00am Counter-Cartographies of Pauliceia: Community Mapping of São Paulo's History 11:00am - 11:15am Reconceptualizing Digital and Spatial Sovereignty: The Role of Participatory and Alt GIS in Addressing Colonial Power Imbalances 11:15am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Mapping Midcentury Modern: Forest to Furniture in Sumter, South Carolina |