November 11−14, 2010

The 43^rd Annual Chacmool Conference is hosted by the Chacmool Archaeological Association and the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.

 Archaeology in the Public Eye

It has been 15 years since the "Public or Perish" Chacmool Conference. This conference succeeded in highlighting the importance of making archaeology a publicly accessible discipline and predicted the intensification of public archaeology projects. It seems an apt time for a follow-up. Public interest in archaeology is unquestionably strong and it is up to archaeologists to present archaeology in a form compatible with that interest. This is not, exclusively, a "Public Archaeology" conference though this subject is expected to contribute a significant number of papers. Some sessions are instead concerned with various ways of making archaeological research relevant to a public audience including the increasingly prevalent use of blogs, web-based resources, and popular publication. Other sessions are intended to act on this ethos and include open general interest, current research and culture history papers presented in a manner accessible to a wide, potentially non-academic audience.