Session Schedule - Arctic Architecture

Session Schedule - Arctic Architecture

Session Schedule S-2 

Arctic Architecture: Context, Construction, and Meaning

Organizer: Max Friesen (University of Toronto)

8:40-9:00 Igluryuaq: A Pre-Contact Inuvialuit Cruciform House from Kuukpak, Mackenzie Delta
Friesen, Max (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario) and Rémi Méreuze (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France)
9:00-9:20 Recording the Collapse of an Arctic Driftwood-Framed House with Photogrammetry and GIS
Méreuze, Rémi (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France) and Max Friesen (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario)
9:20-9:40 Architectural Variation at the Rising Whale Site at Cape Espenberg – Defining the Birnirk and Early “Western” Thule Cultures in Northwestern Alaska
Alix, Claire (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France), Owen K. Mason (University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA) and Lauren Norman (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
9:40-10:00 A Mysterious Thule Structure from Cape Espenberg: When is a Big Hole a Qargi?
Mason, Owen K. (University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA), Claire Alix (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France) and Rémi Méreuze (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France)
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-10:40 Arctic Analogies: Assessing the Use of Ethnohistoric Sources to Reconstruct Activities in Early Thule Dwellings
Norman, Lauren (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
10:40-11:00 Using Magnetometry and Limited Excavation to Interpret Inuit Dwelling Structures at Agvik (OkRn-1), Banks Island
Hodgetts, Lisa (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario), Edward Eastaugh (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario), Kathryn Kotar (McGill University, Montréal, Québec) and Charles Arnold (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta)
11:00-11:20 Whither Sod Houses? Evaluating the Evidence for Land- and Ice-Based Overwintering among Postclassic Thule and Historic Inuit
Desjardins, Sean P. A. (University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherland)
11:20-11:40 A Middle Dorset multi-family dwelling at Alarniq, northern Foxe Basin
Howse, Lesley, James Savelle and Arthur Dyke (McGill University, Montréal, Québec)
11:40-12:00 Re-Assessing the Functional Adaptation of the Greely Stationhouse at Fort Conger, a Site of Polar Exploration in the Canadian High Arctic
Dawson, Peter and Richard Levy (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta)
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:20-13:40 Origin and Dispersal of Triangular Midpassages in the Late Dorset Period in the Canadian and Northwestern Greenland Arctic
Darwent, John (University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA), James M. Savelle (McGill University, Montréal, Québec), Christyann M. Darwent (University of California, Davis, California, USA), Arthur S. Dyke (McGill University, Montréal, Québec), Hans Lange (Greenland National Museum, Nuuk, Greenland), Genevieve M. LeMoine (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA) and Claude Pinard (Montreal, Québec)
13:40-14:00 A Case of Crystal Un-Clearness: The Politics of Reconstructing Traditional Dwellings in the Canadian Arctic
Griebel, Brendan (Intuit Research, Sundre, Alberta), Torsten Diesel (Inuit Heritage Trust, Iqualuit, Nunavut), Tim Rast (Elfshot, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) and Lori White (Elfshot, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador)
14:00-14:20 Applying GIS and Statistical Analysis to Assess Early Palaeo-Eskimo Models of Domestic Spatial Organization: A Case Study from Inland Southern Baffin Island
Thacher, Dana (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario), S. Brooke Milne (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba) and Robert Park (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario)
14:20-14:40 Change and Continuity in Nunavik Inuit Architecture
Lofthouse, Susan (Avataq Cultural Institute, Montréal, Québec) and Pierre Desrosiers (Parks Canada)
14:40-15:00 Sustaining Identity: Interpreting Labrador Inuit Communal Houses in Southern Labrador
Rankin, Lisa K. and Vincent Jankunis (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador)
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break