2022-01-26 ARF Brown Bag - Archaeology and Comics: Pop and material culture (Paulina Przystupa)
Channel: Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Date: 2022-01-26

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Lecture: ARF Brownbag | January 26 | 12:10-1 p.m. |  Virtual event
Speaker:  Paulina Przystupa, Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Visualization and Reproducibility, AAI / Open Context
Sponsor:  Archaeological Research Facility
About: Popular culture is important for understanding how archaeology is understood by the public. It allows us to see what aspects of the discipline the public finds interesting and exciting. However, it can also highlight what the public misunderstands despite a wealth of academic and scientific knowledge. Specifically, this talk will focus on how the field of archaeology, and the knowledge generated from the field, is used in comic books written by non-archaeologists. From flaming mammoths to frozen Neanderthals in crashed spaceships, we can see archaeological inspiration in a wide variety of comics. However, more subtle and fascinating are the ways that comics creators portray archaeologists as people. Drawing from comics published after 2015, this talk will focus on evaluating what the public understands about archaeology and archaeologists and propose some ways archaeologists can help build connections with this community through outreach at comic conventions.