PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN - Universiteit Leiden

2007 Organizer and chairperson of the symposium ‘Leiden in the Caribbean III’ (Leiden April
2007) (financed by the Faculty of Archaeology).
2006 Organizer and chairperson of the symposium ‘Leiden in the Caribbean II’ (Leiden June
2006) (financed by the Faculty of Archaeology).
2006 Co‐organizer and chairperson of the symposium ‘New methods and techniques in the
study of archaeological materials in the Caribbean’ (SAA Puerto Rico, April 2006)
(financed by NWO ASPASIA and VIDI).
Most prominent lectures:
2011 Congreso Antropología y Arqueología Fernando Veloz Maggiolo Calderon, Santo
Domingo organized by the Museo del Hombre Domincano. Viviendo en el reino ¨Taino¨:
La vida en una comunidad de la edad cerámica tardía de la República Dominicana y la
interacción taina con las Antillas Menores.
2010 School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Research Team Short Seminar 2010 organized by Dr. P. Siegel (Monclair University). The
prehistoric archaeology of the Lesser Antilles and Southern Caribbean islands (Aruba,
Curaçao and Bonaire) with particular focus on lifeways and ecological adaptations
2009 Precolumbian Society of Washington DC. Invited lecture. Social Networking across the
Caribbean Sea: Human Mobility and the Exchange of goods and Ideas in the Pre‐
Columbian and Early Colonial period.
2008 Cleveringalecture Singapore, Indianenverhalen over het Azíe van Columbus
2007 72nd Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Austin Symposium: Island worlds
apart: interactions and remoteness on seas and oceans organized by S. Fitzpatrick and A.
Anderson. Lecture: Insular Caribbean society: a dynamic relationship between people,
goods and ideas during late pre‐colonial times (with Keegan, Hoogland and Boomert)
2006 Cleveringa Lecture, Curaçao. Indiaanse Reizen.
2006 Congreso Antropología y Arqueología Fernando Luna Calderon, Santo Domingo
organized by G. Tavarez Maria Lecture: Investigaciones en el Sito El Cabo, RD (with
Hoogland, Samson and Oliver).
2006 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Puerto Rico. Lectures:
Opening session organized by A. Curet. Lecture: ‘Ties with the 'homeland'. Archipelagic
interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre‐Columbian
Caribbean’ (with Hoogland, Boomert, Bright and Knippenberg). Symposium: New
perspectives on the prehistoric settlement of the Caribbean organized by S. Fitzpatrick
and A. Scott. Lecture: ‘Island dynamics: evidence from strontium isotope analysis in the
Lesser Antilles’ (with Hoogland). Symposium: An exploratory study into the chemical
characterization of Caribbean ceramics. In memory of James B. Petersen organized by C.
Descantes. Lecture: ‘Back to the source: provenance areas of clays and temper materials
of pre‐Columbian Caribbean ceramics’ (with Isendoorn and Booden).
2005 KNAW symposium, Amsterdam. ‘De toekomst van de Nederlandse Archeologie’. Lecture:
Heeft de Nederlandse archeologie beoefening een identiteit?
2004 ARCHON symposium Leiden, ‘Rising stars’, Lecture: Mobility and exchange in the pre‐
Columbian insular Caribbean.
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