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Free symposium highlighting fascinating discoveries by Museum curators and experts
(Toronto, Ontario – February 4, 2013) On Friday, February 8, 2013, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the 34th
annual ROM Colloquium, a stimulating one-day event with curators and
researchers highlighting their latest global discoveries and ongoing
research.
The ROM 2013 Colloquium: World Discoveries
gives everyone the chance to hear ROM experts give fifteen-minute
presentations on the latest research in the arts, archeology and pure
and applied sciences. Spend the day or drop by to learn more about a specific subject.
This free
event runs from 9:15 am to 6:30 pm in the ROM’s Signy & Cléophée
Eaton Theatre. Enter through the President’s Choice School Entrance, at
the south end of the building on Queen’s Park. Admission to the Museum
galleries is not included. The day long event will feature The Iconography of Superheroes, Hostage to Cloth, Mutually Assured Distrust, CHANEL: The American Look, Six Months of Social Media, Rare minerals from northeastern Yukon and much more.
The ROM is the largest field research institute in the country and is a world leader in several research areas, from biodiversity, palaeontology, and earth sciences to archaeology, ethnology and visual culture. The ROM originates new information that furthers global understanding and historical and modern change in culture and environment.
The ROM is the largest field research institute in the country and is a world leader in several research areas, from biodiversity, palaeontology, and earth sciences to archaeology, ethnology and visual culture. The ROM originates new information that furthers global understanding and historical and modern change in culture and environment.
This year’s Vaughan Lecture feature presentation is Death and destruction at La Real: mortuary rituals and social change in pre-Columbian Peru, delivered by Dr. Justin Jennings, Curator of New World Archaeology,
ROM Department of World Cultures. It delves into the ritual destruction
of mummies (600-1000 CE), in the belief that it would help society cope
with drastic social change.
Please see the attached PDF for the full media release or see online for the full schedule.
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