Start Time Finish Time 9:00 am 6:30 pm The Archaeology of Portable Art 23rd May 2015 South East Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives TIME SESSION 9:00 am Welcome 9:30 am Plenary SPEAKER PAPER Duncan Wright & Michelle Langley Stephen Loring 10:30 am Making “Luck” by Pleasing the Animal Masters: A Northern Perspective and Reflections on Portable Material Culture MORNING TEA BREAK 11:00 am Sue O’Connor & Elena Piotto Communities of Culture: Persistence and Change in Decorative Shell-Working Traditions in Island Southeast Asia 11:15 am Stephen Munro The Trinil Shell and the Ancient Art of Discovery Judith Cameron Clay Stamps Deciphered: Impressions of Long-Lost Biographies of Portable Artefacts from Northern Vietnam Pauline Basilia & Eleanor Lim The Reconstruction of the Micro-Perforated Cut Shell Bead (MCSB) Manufacturing Sequence 12:00 pm Timothy Vitales Utensils of Significance: Exploring the Role of Shell Spoon or Ladle Forms in Philippine Archaeology 12:15 pm Panel Discussion Sue O’Connor & Robin Torrence 11:30 am 11:45 am Southeast Asia 12:45 pm LUNCH BREAK 2:00 pm Robin Torrence (Re-) Creating Value: Obsidian Stemmed Tools in Papua New Guinea 2:15 pm Katherine Szabó Dissecting ‘Value’: Theory, Method, and Fĳian Chiefly Breatplates Stuart Bedford Modified Canines: Circular Pig’s Tusks in the Pacific and Beyond 2:45 pm Eve Haddow, Stuart Bedford, James Flexner, & Matthew Spriggs Pendants of Stone, Shell, and Tooth from Southern Vanuatu 3:00 pm Panel Discussion Matthew Spriggs & Katherine Szabó 2:30 pm 3:30 pm Pacific AFTERNOON TEA BREAK 4:30 pm ‘The Colour of the Ovahimba’ Premier Screening 7:00 pm Symposium Dinner at Lemongrass Thai (Civic)