ROM curators and researchers share their fascinating discoveries and ongoing research at the 30th Annual ROM Research Colloquium and Vaughan Lecture. Each 15-minute presentation highlights the latest research in arts, archaeology and pure and applied sciences of ROM experts.

The annual Vaughan Lecture is presented from 5:30 to 6:30 pm and serves to highlight a selected ROM curator's recent achievements. This year’s presentation, Christian Dior: History & Modernity, is made by Alexandra Palmer, Senior Curator, Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curatorship.

Program Schedule

9:15 am - 9:30 am	Welcome Dr. Mark Engstrom, Deputy Director Collections & Research
9:30 am - 9:45 am	The First Period Rooms in a Canadian Museum Ross Fox, Department of World Cultures, ROM
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Fossil Scorpions from the Silurian (Wenlock) Eramosa Lagerstätte, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario Janet Waddington, David Rudkin, Department of Natural History, ROM
10:00 am - 10:15 am	Musings on the Origin of Personification in South Asian Art Beth Knox, Department of World Cultures, ROM
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:00 am	A Passage in the life of a Palampore: Conservation Shirley Ellis, Conservation Department, ROM
11:00 am - 11:15 am	Thick knees, all legs, and fossil "no-bodies" Dave Rudkin, Department of Natural History, ROM - Presenter Michael Cuggy, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Graham Young, Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, MB Debbie Thompson, Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, MB
11:15 am - 11:30 am	Surviving Warships of the Period of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 Corey Keeble, Department of World Cultures, ROM
11:30 am - 11:45 am	Holey Aroids - Circular trenching behaviour by leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on Araceae in southeast Asia. Chris Darling, Department of Natural History, ROM
11:45 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm	A four faced figure from eastern Nigeria. Idol or fantasy? Silvia Forni, Department of World Cultures, ROM
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm	Mayflowers and (false-) Solomon's seals: what's up underground? Tim A. Dickinson & Marta Heckel, Green Plant Herbarium, ROM
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm	A Brief Report on the Coffin of a Wab Priest, ROM 910.5 and its Inhabitant Gayle Gibson, Education Department, ROM
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm	Genomics research on extinct and living birds: reconstructing the Avian tree of life Allan Baker and Oliver Haddrath, Department of Natural History, ROM
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Coffee Break
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	Origins and Biogeography of Bats in South America Burton Lim, Department of Natural History, ROM
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Chinese Yixing (red stoneware) Teapots as a Source of Silver Design, 1675-1825 Peter Kaellgren, Department of World Cultures, ROM
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Geology and Tourism in Ontario Vince Vertolli, Department of Natural History, ROM
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm	A Chinese tomb of AD 150 from China's Northwestern frontier in the ROM Klaas Ruitenbeek, Department of World Cultures, ROM
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm	The pottery jug that was not eaten (ROM G1779) Karin Ruehrdanz, Department of World Cultures, ROM
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm	A new group of cichlid fishes from the Guiana shield highlands - discoveries from the "Lost World" in the field and in the lab Hernán López-Fernández, Department of Natural History, ROM
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm	Becoming Wari: Creating International Identities in Ninth Century AD Peru Justin Jennings, Department of World Cultures, ROM
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm	ROM's Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead Resurrected Roberta Shaw and Janet Cowan, Department of World Culture & Department of Conservation, ROM
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	VAUGHAN LECTURE Christian Dior: History & Modernity Alexandra Palmer, Department of World Cultures, ROM