Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series

28th Annual Richard Frucht Memorial Conference and Lecture Series, organized by #UAlberta Department of Anthropology

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A tad delayed but still hot off the press!

We nominated our Anthropology grad advisor, the a-mazing Heather Cook, for a recognition award...and she won! <3

Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!

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If you missed Dr. Jing Jing Liu's keynote lecture, we have a recording available now via our website! Thank you Dr. Liu for delivering this lecture & meeting with our students! We are so happy you could join us. https://t.co/0OvoDYhXWH

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As we close out our 29th annual event, we continue to reflect on the many companies and institutions who supported the Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series and Student Conference this year! Thank you for your support and for making this year's conference possible!

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We are so grateful to @WesternH for supporting Anika’s future conference travel with their award sponsorship!

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Congratulations to Anika Lukie, who won the Western Heritage Conference Travel Award for Top Undergraduate Podium Presentation for “The Rise of the Grocery Store Perogy: Shifting Responsibilities of Traditional Food Knowledge in the Ukrainian Canadian Community.” Congrats Anika!

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A huge thanks to @WesternH for sponsoring these awards!

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Prithvi Kahlon and Izzy Sheptak were runner-ups for the undergraduate podium award. They are both recipients of Western Heritage Conference Travel Awards for Runner-Up Undergraduate Podium Presentations.”

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A big thanks to @WesternH for sponsoring this award and supporting Megan’s future conference travel!

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Megan Bieraugle and her poster “Relationships between Indigenous People and Dogs on the Canadian Plains” were awarded the Western Heritage Conference Travel Award for Top Poster. Congratulations Megan!

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Very thankful to have come runner up this year @frucht_agas ! For my poster proposing how we can use black bone disease for secondary identification

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Anika Lukie, Viktoriya Popovych, and Izzie Sheptak’s “Ukrainian Foods in Canada” panel is the other recipient of the Panel Excellence Awards.

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Two sessions also received awards in panel excellence this year at the Frucht Conference. These sessions truly emulated the collaborative nature of Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series and were a pleasure to attend.

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Hajar Ghorbani, Hande Gür, Nazia Mahmud, and Samira Torabi’s panel “Into the Field: Self-Reflection of the Researcher in the Study of Muslim Worlds” is one of the recipients of the Panel Excellence Awards.

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Rebecca’s poster was entitled “How sick were children during the Industrial Revolution in England? An analysis of linear enamel hypo plasma in British dental collections.” Congrats Rebecca!

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Brianne Bertram and Rebecca Nikota are runner-ups for the student poster award and recipients of the Ember Archaeology Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Poster.

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Brianne’s poster was entitled “Black Bone Disease in Forensics.” Congrats Brianne!

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Izzy’s paper was entitled “Baba’s Holubtsi: A Comparison of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian Culinary Traditions.” Congrats Izzy!

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Prithvi’s talk was entitled “Stone Tools & Our Primate Ancestors.” Congrats Prithvi!

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Viktoriya Popoych and her paper “There Is No Ukraine Without Salo” was awarded the Ember Archaeology Student Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Graduate Podium Presentation. Congratulations Viktoriya!

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At this year’s Frucht, Samira Torabi was awarded the Ember Archaeology Graduate Conference Travel Award for Top Graduate Podium Presentation for her paper “What Gives Us Away? Reconfiguring what constitutes native anthropology.” Congratulations Samira!