OAS Events

The next OAS General Meeting is May 6, 2025 at 7p.m.

Guest lecturer Jocelyn Lee, speaking on
“Feeling Safe in the Field: Fostering Spaces of Inclusion during Archaeological Excavations” 

Safety comes in all different forms in an archaeological excavation. From the most basic physical safety that addresses the physical or environmental challenges in a site, to other forms of safety such as social safety. Social safety emphasizes friendly social bonds in the environment. Many archaeological excavations require intimate interactions with a group of people for multiple days if not weeks. As such, during the field season, various personal and work boundaries are often blurred as the same folks who are working together during the day are the same group they are spending their off hours with. Social safety within an archaeological excavation is thus crucial to address. This talk will use a 2023 excavation as a case study on how to create, enforce, and encourage social safety, allowing the project and its participants to thrive.
 
Jocelyn Lee is a historical archaeologist with a focus theories of landscape, mobility, and placemaking within the Asian American diaspora. Her dissertation is on Chinese diaspora archaeology in Oregon looking at the movement between labor camps and small community centers in rural landscapes. In addition, Jocelyn’s dissertation seeks to connect archaeological interpretations with present-day communities through the combination of countermapping, archival, and material analyses to help understand contemporary Chinese American’s conception of historical places. In the summer of 2023, she led a Passport In Time (PIT) project along with in Southern Oregon on a Chinese mining camp to investigating Chinese American history in Oregon. Jocelyn is an advisory member of the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project which she has been involved with since 2019. In addition to being the recipient of OAS Jones Scholarship, she has also been awarded with Wenner-Gren’s Dissertation Fieldwork Grant in 2024. Her work has been published in places like Annual Review of Anthropology and Historical Archaeology.
Jocelyn completed her MA in historical archaeology at UMass Boston in 2020 and received the Barbara E. Luedtke Book Award in Anthropology. 
 

The meeting will be live at OMSI, free and open to the public
and also available to OAS members via Zoom.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is located at
1945 SE Water Ave. Portland, OR 97214-3354

Recordings of meetings will be available to the general public on the OAS YouTube channel one week after the meeting date. Visit the OAS YouTube Channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcaApNDyXOz2W6tsiWTPZw/

OAS Free Public Lecture Series, 2024-2025

Sept 3, 2024
Dr. April Nowell, University of Victoria
Dr. Nowell will be speaking on “Growing Up in the Ice Age: Were Children Drivers of Human Cultural Evolution?”

Oct 1, 2024
Cheryl Mack
“The Search for Chequoss – A Camp From the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey Expedition”

November 6, 2024   Date change to Wednesday
Dr. Larry Loendorf, Sacred Sites Research
“Warfare, Pots and Rock Art in the
Jornada Mogollon Region, New Mexico”

December 3, 2024
Dr. Robert Losey, University of Alberta
“The Par-Tee Archaeological Site on the Oregon Coast: Equipment Scaling and Learning”

January 7, 2025
Dr. Virginia Butler, speaking on
“Updates from The Dalles Roadcut Site, a Sample of the Stories”

February 4, 2025
Dr. Karen Steelman, SHUMLA Archaeological Research and Education Center, Texas. “Radiocarbon Dating Pictographs: Field & Laboratory Research”

March 5, 2025
Dr. Jim Keyser, Oregon Archaeological Society
“War Stories: Biographic War Paintings on Plains War Horses”

April 1, 2025
Dan Stueber, University of Victoria
“Understanding Stone Tools Through Replication and Experiments”

 May 6, 2025
Jocelyn Lee
“Feeling Safe in the Field: Fostering Spaces
of Inclusion during Archaeological Excavations” 

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