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2012 ROM Research Colloquium

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Presentations from 9:30am-5:00pm in the Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre.

This fascinating annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers. ROM experts deliver consecutive 15-minute presentations on the latest research in the arts, archaeology and pure and applied sciences.

Free (Museum admission not included). Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre. Please enter the ROM by the President's Choice School Entrance, located at the south end of the building on Queen’s Park.

9:30-9:45am	Welcome Dr. Mark Engstrom, Deputy Director – Collections & Research, ROM
9:45-10:00am	Saving the Kiwi: ROM’s contribution to preserving threatened and endangered species Oliver Haddrath, Technician, Department of Natural History, ROM Oliver Haddrath, Maryann Burbidge & Allan J. Baker
10:00-10:15am	From porcupine quills to feathers: Semantic transformations and market circulation of 20th century Cameroonian art Silvia Forni, Associate Curator, Department of World Cultures, ROM
10:15-10:30am	The Fishes of the Lost World: A conservation report from the field Hernán López-Fernández, Associate Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM
10:30–11am	Break
11:00-11:15am	2008-2010 ROM-Burgess Shale expeditions - Expanding the search for Burgess Shale-type deposits in the Canadian Rockies. Jean-Bernard Caron, Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM
11:15-11:30am	“That’s Not a Kayak!”: Form, Function, and Cultural Appropriation Kenneth Lister, Assistant Curator, Department of World Cultures, ROM
11:30-11:45am	An Embarrassment of Worms: Fossil Priapulida from the Silurian of Ontario … Real and Imagined David M. Rudkin, Assistant Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM
11:45am-12:00pm	There are many angles: on archaeological expeditions in Iraq during the 1930s Clemens Reichel, Associate Curator, Department of World Cultures, ROM
12:00-1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30-1:45pm	ABOUT FACE: The Conservation of the ROM's Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt Heidi Sobol, Senior Conservator, Conservation Department, ROM
1:45-2:00pm	Exploration of the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Faunas of Northern Sudan, Africa David Evans, Associate Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM David C. Evans (Associate Curator, Palaeobiology, Royal Ontario Museum), J. Müller, R. Bussert, N. M. F. Elmula, N. Klein, K. A. Salih
2:00-2:15pm	Shahnama: The Persian “Book of Kings” Karin Ruehrdanz, Curator, Department of World Cultures, ROM
2:15-2:30pm	A new fossil bird from the Late Eocene of Wyoming: what’s the flap about? Kevin Seymour, Assistant Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM Kevin L. Seymour¹, Sanja Hinic-Frlog², and David C. Evans¹ 1 Department of Natural History, ROM; ² Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2:30-2:45pm	Not-So-Ordinary about the Ordinary: New Discoveries in Song Dynasty Paintings Wen-Chien Cheng, Louise Hawley Stone Chair of Far Eastern Art Department of World Cultures, ROM
2:45-3:15pm	Coffee Break
3:15-3:30pm	Crossing the Line: Stingray parasite diversity across Wallace’s Line in the Indo-West Pacific Claire J. Healy, Associate Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM
3:30-3:45pm	Southern Arabian silks for the African market Sarah Fee, Associate Curator, Department of World Cultures, ROM
3:45-4:00pm	Mobile Interpretation in Museums Ryan Dodge, Technician, Library & Archives, ROM
4:00-4:15pm	Peking Man Re-Visited: A Who’s Who of Human Evolution Chen Shen, Vice-President, Senior Curator, Bishop White Chair of East Asian Archaeology Department of World Cultures, ROM
4:15-4:30pm	Winter in Canada is No Picnic: Alicia Killaly’s chromolithographs of a day at Montmorency Falls, 1868 Arlene Gehmacher, Curator, Department of World Cultures, ROM
4:30-4:45pm	The Study of Meteorites - Science versus Conservation Brendt C. Hyde, (Technician, Mineralogy, ROM) Kim Tait, (Associate Curator, Mineralogy, ROM)
4:45-5:00pm	Closing Remarks Dr. Mark Engstrom, Deputy Director - Collections & Research, ROM
5:00-6:00pm	Break
6:00–7:00pm	VAUGHAN LECTURE The flies we despise: reflections on the wonderful world of black flies Douglas C. Currie, Curator, Department of Natural History, ROM Black flies are notorious for their bloodsucking habits on humans and other warm blooded animals, yet they are as much a part of the natural environment as the flowing waters in which they breed. ROM Senior Curator Doug Currie sheds light on the diversity, ecology, and evolutionary history of these fascinating — though generally despised — creatures. Highlights are presented about current efforts to “DNA barcode” the black flies of North America. Preliminary results are also presented about current research documenting the migration of southern-adapted species into northern Canada, and the possible consequences for arctic birds and mammals.
All day	POSTER PRESENTATION Sertularella maureenae, a new species of hydroid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae) from the Pacific coast of Canada (H. Choong)

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Dr. Robert Gaines (left) and Dr. Michael Streng (Right) observing outcrops on the south side of Mount Odaray. (August 23, 2010). Photo courtesy of Jean-Bernard Caron.