2024 Lecture Series
On the second and fourth Friday of each month, the NAHAR working group will host a virtual lecture. This event serves as an opportunity for scholars to come together to find common research threads and develop action items that address heritage at risk. Each talk will conclude with a question and answer period.
Zoom Meeting ID: 883 0435 4870
Password: NAHAR
Caribbean Coastal Heritage and Climate-Induced Hazards
Andrea Richards, Leiden University
9am EST, Friday, January 26, 2024
The world’s changing climate has been acknowledged as one of the most significant threats to heritage and its safeguarding. This is particularly the case in the Caribbean, where the sustained impacts of climate-induced hazards have become more pronounced with each passing season. Our islands are not new to these effects, and researchers are documenting this challenge at various sites across the region. This presentation examines the extent of this impact across the region. It also discusses actions that are being taken and are needed to safeguard the Caribbean’s coastal archaeological record, particularly within the challenging context of managing heritage in the region.
Land Tenure and Louisiana’s Sugar Landscape
Steve Filoromo, TerraXplorations
9am EST, Friday, February 23, 2024
Throughout southern Louisiana, the lands were subject to intensive agricultural cultivation, be it through cotton or rice, but mainly, sugar. For the many enslaved laborers and immigrant tenant farmers, waterways served as networks between nodes of significant sites of labor–these same ‘nodes’ are part of a vanishing history, yet provide important locations to better understand the material transformations social relationships across antebellum and postbellum landscapes.