2024 Spring Speaker Series | Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
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Schedule
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April 7, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
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370 Beach Road
Fairfield, CT 06824 United States
Our 2024 Spring Speaker Series starts with an exploration of the origins of eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes. Dr. Lucianne Lavin, Research Director Emerita at The Institute for American Indian Studies, recently compiled research from a plethora of Native American culture bearers, anthropologists, and archaeologists that provides an important new lens for interpreting stone structures that had previously been attributed to settler colonialism. Join us to unravel the mystery behind these sacred sites and discover their significance as cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation.
Dr. Lavin will have copies of Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America for sale for a special price of $55.
About the Presenter
Lucianne Lavin is Director Emerita of Research and Collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies (a museum and research and educational center in Washington, CT). She has over 50 years of research and field experience in Northeastern archaeology and anthropology, including teaching, museum exhibits and curatorial work, cultural resource management, editorial work, and public relations. Dr. Lavin is a founding member of Connecticut’s Native American Heritage Advisory Council (a government agency whose appointed members advise the Office of State Archaeology and the State Historic Preservation Office on Native American burials and sacred sites), and retired editor of the journal of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University and her B.A. from Indiana University. In 2018, she received a Certificate of Award for Women in American History from The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Dr. Lavin has written over 200 professional publications and technical reports on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Northeast. Her publications include Our Hidden Landscapes, Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America (SUNY Press, 2021), and the award-winning Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples: What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us about their Communities and Cultures (Yale University Press, 2013). In 2018, Dr. Lavin received a Certificate of Award for Women in American History from the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
About the 2024 Spring Speaker Series – People & Place
Join the Fairfield Museum and History Center for the 2024 Spring Speaker Series, exploring our relationship with the land and examining how Connecticut’s natural landscape shaped our history. Dive into natural history with scholars and scientists from throughout Connecticut.
Additional Lectures in the Series:
Light refreshments provided. Registration is required. $15 per talk | $40 for the series, $35 for Members
The 2024 Spring Speaker Series is generously sponsored by Oak Lawn Cemetery & Arboretum.
