DAACS Conversations
Join DAACS staff and DAACS collaborating scholars for a diverse range of conversations on ground-breaking new research linked to DAACS. This fall, DAACS will host a series of talks entitled From Legacy Collections to Active Excavations: Insights from a Half Century of Archaeological Research on the 17th-Century Chesapeake. These talks will explore the multicultural dynamics that underlie the emergence of a slave society in the Colonial Chesapeake. In the spirit of facilitating comparative frameworks, we have invited a number of collaborators to present on their work that highlights new perspectives and innovative archaeological research into how different groups (elites, enslaved laborers, indentured servants, Indigenous communities) were navigating complicated and conflicting priorities in the New World. We also look forward to sharing the results of our National Endowment for the Humanities-funded reanalysis of four Flowerdew Hundred Plantation sites. The series will coincide with the formal launch of the data from Flowerdew on the DAACS website.
Join the conversation to learn about these exciting projects, and their impact on the field. Conversations start with a short talk followed by questions and discussion. We look forward to seeing you at the next talk! No prior archaeological knowledge or experience required.
To Join the Conversation:
- Register for the talk. Below you will find registration links for each conversation. Registration is capped at 300 people.
- You will receive an email with a link to join the conversation. You will also receive a reminder the day of the talk.
- DAACS Conversations live stream starts at 12 pm EST.
- Each conversation will be recorded and available to watch after the live stream concludes.
Watch past DAACS Conversations on the DAACS Playlist.
Post 1975: A Brief Review of the Last Fifty Years of the Archaeology of Early Virginia.
Carter L. Hudgins, Director Emeritus, Clemson University Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
September 5th, 2025
12:00 pm ET
Modern Methods, Historic Materials: Re-evaluating Four Seventeenth Sites from Flowerdew Hundred Plantation.
Beth Bollwerk and Fraser Neiman, The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
September 19th, 2025
12:00pm ET
Colonial Confidence and the Archaeology of St. Mary's Fort, Maryland | Compositional Analysis of the Jamestown Glass Bead Assemblage
Travis Parno, Director of Research and Collections Historic St. Mary's City | Elliot Blair, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama, Dennis Blanton, Associate Professor, James Madison University
October 31st, 2025
12:00 pm ET
Countering Colonial Narratives of Native Places | Crafting Home in Hostile Spaces: Materiality and the Politics of Belonging on a Chesapeake Plantation
Taylor Callaway, Ph.D. Candidate, College of William and Mary | Macie Clerkley, Ph.D. Student, Brown University
November 14th, 2025
12:00pm ET
Panel Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here?
Panelists: Michael Barber, J. Eric Deetz, Taft Kiser, Chardé Reid, Moderators: Meg Kennedy and Beth Bollwerk
December 5th, 2025
12:00 pm ET
