Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series
2012 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Larry Zimmerman
The keynote speaker for the 2012 Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series and Student Conference is Dr. Larry Zimmerman from the Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies, University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Dr. Zimmerman will be presenting a public lecture, 'Displaced and Barely Visible: Using Archaeology to Understand Homelessness' on February 29, 2012 at 6:30pm in Telus 150. A reception will follow the lecture. A department presentation, 'The Good, The Bad, and The Bearded: Popular Images of Archaeologists and How We See Ourselves, Or, Are Archaeologists Their Own Worst Enemies?' will take place in T-BW-1, March 2, 2012 at 3:00pm. Reception to follow.
More information about this year's lectures can be found here
More information about Dr. Zimmerman can be found here.
2011's conference was a big success! A full list of acknowledgements, thanks, and student conference winners can be found here.
Student Conference
The 2012 Student Conference will be held March 1 and 2, 2012 in Tory 14-28. Times to be announced. Abstracts can be submitted until February 10 to frucht@ualberta.ca
The 2011 program, including presentation times and dates, can be found here.
Dr. Richard Frucht
Richard Frucht was born in Brooklyn, New York and received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1958. He came to the University of Alberta in 1966 after receiving his Ph.D from Brandeis also in that year. At the time of his death in 1979, he was a full professor with the Department of Anthropology.
Dr. Frucht held a number of positions including: Vice-Presidency of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (1975-1977), Member of the Executive Council of the Caribbean Studies Association (1975-1977), Editorship for Anthropology of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (1975-1978), and Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Anthropology.
His courses were often extremely popular and he was known as an entertaining lecturer and a caring and giving friend to his colleagues.
(Michael Asch, Canadian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1981)