Lunch Club

Archaeological site in India

Lunch Club provides affiliates of the Stanford Archaeology Center with a community-oriented forum for engagement with current issues in archaeology. The Lunch Club meets on Wednesdays from 12pm – 1pm and  a lunch served 10 minutes before the start of the event. Presenters include current Center affiliates as well as researchers from other Stanford programs and other universities. Lunch Club speakers are selected by a graduate student committee in consultation with the Director.

Upcoming Events

October
16

Finding Fields: Remote Sensing of Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes

Time
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Jesse Casana
October
23

Industry, Recreation, and the Archaeology of Wilderness in Algonquin Provincial Park

Time
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Sandy Hunter
October
30

The Cook’s Dance: Reconstructing Culinary Choreography in the Pompeian Home

Time
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Aaron Brown
November
6

Scorched: Native Women and Spanish Men at Joara and Fort San Juan, 1566-1568

Time
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Rachel Briggs
November
20

Susan Allen

Time
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Speaker:
Susan Allen
December
4

Anne Chen

Time
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Speaker:
Anne Chen
February
26

William Taylor

Time
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
March
5

Giulia Saltini Semerari

Time
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
March
12

Laura Motta

Time
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
April
9

Lisa Overholtzer

Time
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
April
16

Sabina Cvecek

Time
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
April
30

Matthew Previto

Time
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
May
7

Feng Li

Time
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
May
28

Anna Agbe-Davies

Time
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
June
4

Wade Campbell

Time
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Past Events

Making Providence: Indigenous Erasure and Survivance in a Settler Colonial City

Time
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Patricia Rubertone

Settlement and cultivation trends from eastern Yucatán, Mexico, to inform rural livelihoods today

Time
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Maia DEDRICK

Wade Campbell

Time
Tuesday, June 4, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Spatial Ethnoarchaeology of Change in Mobile Pastoralist and Marsh-Dwelling Communities

Time
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Emily Hammer

Peter Johansen, PhD

Historicizing Ceramics in Ancient South Deccan Mortuary Ritual: Politics, Locality and Communities of Practice

Time
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Peter Johansen