Collections & Research

ROM Colloquium

2012 ROM Research Colloquium

Sponsored by: Cathay Pacific

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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JEAN-BERNARD CARON

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.

RYAN DODGE

Photo credit: Samantha Klein Photography.

SILVIA FORNI

Photo credit: Silvia Forni, 2000.

CLAIRE HEALY

Photo credit: Claire Healy.

KEN LISTER

Photo credit: K.R. Lister, 2009.

HEIDI SOBOL

Detail during treatment, after fill application (Spring, 2011). Acc.# 918.20.2. Photo credit: Heidi Sobol.

KEVIN SEYMOUR

ROM 52665. Photo credit: Kevin Seymour.

DOUG CURRIE



Photo credit: Stephen A. Marshall.