ROM Colloquium
ROM Colloquium 2010: Discoveries Around the World
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February 5, 9:15 am to 7:00 pm, Full Day
Free (Museum admission not included)
This fascinating annual event 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.
Please enter the ROM by the President's Choice School Entrance, located at the south end of the building on Queen’s Park.
Feature Event
2010 Vaughn Lecture
New Directions in Dinosaur Research
David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology
Associate Curator and dinosaur specialist Dr. David Evans.
Associate Curator and dinosaur specialist Dr. David Evans highlights some of the ROM's latest field projects and newest dinosaur discoveries. The ROM dinosaur research program is currently expanding at an unprecedented rate, with many new and exciting lab and field projects taking place across the globe, from Mongolia, to South Africa, to the Canadian Arctic and Alberta and building on the ROM’s rich history of dinosaur research that goes back almost a century.
List of presentations
On Healing Magic Again: A Dragon-Spouted Saucer Made of Nephrite
Karin Ruehrdanz, Curator, Department of World Cultures
Founder’s Fossil: Sir Edmund Walker and the Burgess Shale Connection
Dave Rudkin, Assistant Curator, Department of Natural History
Sustaining Ancestors: Architectural posts from Africa
Silvia Forni, Curator, Department of World Cultures
Illustrating Fashion: The Art Deco Designs of George Barbier
Arthur Smith, Head, Library & Archives
South American Safari: Adaptive Radiation of Bats in Savannas
Burton Lim, Assistant Curator, Department of Natural History
Investigating a Network of American Furniture Makers in Montreal ca. 1790-1820
Ross Fox, Associate Curator, Department of World Cultures
The Auto-fluorescence of Asian Lacquer
Marianne Webb, Senior Decorative Arts Conservator
LUNCH BREAK
Greenwich Garnitures in Relation to the Greenwich Anime of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, a focal point in our Arms and Armour Collection.
Corey Keeble, Curator, Department of World Cultures
Rapid Radiations Entangle the Branches of the Avian Tree of Life
Oliver Haddrath, Technician, Ornithology & Allan Baker, Senior Curator, Ornithology
Ragamala Paintings: Visualizing Music Through Paint
Deepali Dewan, Curator, Department of World Cultures
The Remarkable Geology of Killarney Provincial Park
Vince Vertolli, Assistant Curator, Department of Natural History
Coral, Rock, or Wood: A Reconsideration of the Iconography of a Motif in the East Wall of the ROM’s Pair of Chinese Daoist Murals
Ka Bo Tsang, Assistant Curator, Department of World Cultures
Swimming with Dinosaurs: DNA reveals that American Cichlid Fishes Date Back to the Late Cretaceous
Hernán López-Fernández, Associate Curator, Ichthyology
Chasing the First Urban Dwellers: Work at Hamoukar, Northeastern Syria
Clemens Reichel, Associate Curator, Department of World Cultures
Broadening the Search for Burgess Shale-type Deposits in the Canadian Rockies
Jean-Bernard Caron, Associate Curator, Invertebrate Palaeontology
French River Rapids
Ken Lister, Assistant Curator, Department of World Cultures
Oskenonton’s Canoes
Trudy Nicks, Department of World Cultures
Reflections of the First Emperor in the ROM Chinese Gallery
Chen Shen, Department of World Cultures
A Neolithic “Land of the Dead” in Syria
Robert Mason, Technician, Far Eastern Archaeology
