The Departments of Anthropology and History, along with the Bush School of Government and Public Service, invite you to attend the conference, “Honoring Service, Finding Answers: Conflict Archaeology & Military History,” on Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 4 p.m. to Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 4:45 p.m. at the Memorial Student Center (Tuesday) and Glasscock Building (Wednesday).
The event is open to the public and no registration is required.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from the principal deputy director with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, view a student exhibition on MIA Aggies and hear presentations from faculty and students from geology, history, anthropology, English, the College of Architecture and the Bush School on supporting the United States' mission to account for all missing service personnel from World War II to present conflicts.
The idea for the symposium builds off an event that took place two years ago, “Never Forgotten: Conflict Archaeology & Military History."
The schedule for the event is as follows:
Tuesday November 4 at the Memorial Student Center
- 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. - Memorial Student Center Room 1400
- Keynote Address: Dr. Todd Ahlman
Director of the Center for Archaeological StudiesTexas State University
- 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - Forsyth Gallery
- Keynote Reception & Exhibit Opening
Aggies in Action: Honoring the Fallen, Searching for the Missing
Wednesday, November 5 -at the Melbern G. Glasscock Building, Room 311
Presentations By Faculty and Students
- 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. - Breakfast
- 8:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. - Welcome Remarks
- 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. - Panel 1 | Working in the Field
- Denmark Underwater Survey | Dr. Peter Bojakowski & Dr. Katie Custer Bojakowski
- Italy Crash Site | Jackson Baker, Kaitie McCarthy & Elizabeth Hitchcock
- Aircraft Identification | Dan DeBree
- 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. - Coffee Break
- 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. - Panel 2 | Technology and the Search for the Missing
- US-Mexico Border Studies | Emma Newman
- Geospatial and Artificial Intelligence | Dan DeBree & Liz Sherman
- Near-infrared Spectroscopy | Dr. Heather Thakar
- 12:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. - Lunch
- 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. - Panel 3 | Innovation and the Hunt for the Past
- Geographic Information Systems | TBA
- Machine Learning and Sonar | Dr. Leila Character
- Radar Diagnostic Testing | Dr. Mark Everett
- 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. - Coffee Break
- 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. - Panel 4 | Student Research
- MIA Memorial | Cristina Vasquez Cisneros
- Student Curators | Rafael Montemayor & Lily Dempsey
- History Research Internship | Makennah Casady
- Chest Radiograph Project | Annie Ngo & Zachary Maddux
For updates leading up to the conference, view the event on the ArtSci calendar or contact Dr. Erika Bravo at MIAproject@tamu.edu