Appropriating the Exotic:

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Friday	8 October
1.30 - 2.10	Registration Elizabeth Fry Foyer
2.10 - 2.20	Symposium Welcome
2.20 - 3.00	Mary W Helms: How Living Metal Can Nourish the Earth: Bronze Age Depositions in Cosmographical and Cosmological Perspective
3.00 - 3.40	Jessica Rawson: Beads, Bronze and Gold: Exotic Artifacts as Status Markers among Chinese Elites, 1000-650 BC.
3.40 - 4.20	Tea/Coffee Break Elizabeth Fry Foyer
4.20 - 5.00	Colin Renfrew: Misappropriating the Exotic: The Lure of Diffusionism in Prehistoric Research
5.00 - 5.40	Helen Anderson: The Exotic in Mind: Shells, Teeth and Amber in Paleolithic Africa and Europe
5.45 - 6.45	Drinks Reception SCVA WAM School area
7.15	Speakers Dinner Please contact Lynne Crossland

Saturday	9 October
9.30 – 10.10	George Lau: Others as Exotics: Warfare and Alterity in the Ancient Andes
10.10 - 10.50	Charlotte Townsend-Gault: The Internal Exotic: Indigenous Status in British Columbia
10.50 - 11.30	Tea/Coffee break Elizabeth Fry Foyer
11.30 - 12.10	Debra Strickland: The Exotic in the Middle Ages: The Case of Ethiopians
12.10 - 12.50	Bodil Birkebæk Olesen: When Mansa Musa went to Mecca: Power Objects, Islam, and Human Agency in the Mande World
12.50 - 2.00	Lunch SCVA Garden Restaurant
2.00 - 2.40	Fiona Sheales: Wrapping and Ratification: Asante Appropriations, Displays and Exchanges of Textiles in a Pre-colonial Diplomatic Context
2.40 - 3.20	Steven Hooper: From the Deep Sea and the Deep Forest: Material Embodiments of Exotic Power in Oceania
3.20 - 3.40	Closing discussion Chair: John Mack