***Update December 2025***
View recordings of these talks in our DAACS Conversations Playlist.
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. The series will coincide with the formal launch of the data from Flowerdew Hundred plantation on the DAACS website. All talks will take place at 12pm eastern.
September 5, 2025: Carter L. Hudgins, Director Emeritus, Clemson University Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. “Post 1975: A Brief Review of the Last 50 Years of the Archaeology of Early Virginia.”
September 19, 2025: Elizabeth Bollwerk and Fraser Neiman, Monticello Archaeology and DAACS. “Modern Methods, Historic Materials, Re-evaluating Four Seventeenth-Century Sites from Flowerdew Hundred Plantation.”
October 31, 2025: Travis Parno, Director of Research and Collections Historic St. Mary’s City. “Colonial Confidence and the Archaeology of St. Mary’s Fort, Maryland;” and
Elliot Blair, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama, and Dennis Blanton, Associate Professor, James Madison University. “Compositional Analysis of the Jamestown Glass Bead Assemblage.”
November 14, 2025: Taylor Calloway, Ph.D. Candidate, College of William and Mary: “Countering Colonial Narratives of Native Places;” and
Macie Clerkley, Ph. D. student, Brown University. “Crafting Home in Hostile Spaces: Materiality and the Politics of Belonging on a Chesapeake Plantation.”
December 5, 2025: Mike Barber, J. Eric Deetz, Taft Kiser, and Chardé Reid: “Where Do We Go from Here? The Past and Future of Flowerdew Hundred.”
