May 15, 2024
Cartoon Room 1, Ohio Union, Columbus Campus
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world. Honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, the entire Newark Earthworks originally encompassed more than four square miles. It was built between CE 1 to CE 400 by the ancestors of contemporary American Indian peoples who are identified today as the Hopewell Culture/Era. This architectural wonder was part cathedral, part university, part social space, part cemetery and part astronomical observatory. Through their genius, hard work, and collaborative efforts these ancestors inscribed upon the land a remarkable wealth of indigenous knowledge relating to geometry and astronomy encoded in the design of these earthworks. The Octagon Earthworks are aligned to the four moonrises and four moonsets that mark the limits of a complicated 18 year and 219 day-long cycle north and south on the eastern horizon.
This Gathering is built upon the hard work of organizers and attendees of previous Mounds & Memory workshops and the goal of this Gathering is to reunite participants in previous workshops, including representatives of the Rainy River First Nations (Ontario), the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Nation, The Ohio State University, the University of Toronto, and Harvard University. to share and celebrate these "monuments of the Ohio River Valley."
Our Lecture Agenda will be posted on this page shortly.
Speakers:
- Jennifer Aultman, Chief Historic Sites Officer, Ohio History Connection
- Kevin Daugherty (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) Language Specialist and Elder
- Steven Gavazzi, Director of CHHR, The Ohio State University
- Bradley Lepper, Curator of Archaeology, Ohio History Connection
- Lucy Murphy, Professor Emeritus of History, The Ohio State University
- Kevin Nolan, Director and Senior Archaeologist of Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University
- Justin Parscher, Assistant Professor of Practice Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture
- Richard Shiels, Associate Professor Emeritus of History, The Ohio State University
If you require an accommodation such as interpretation to participate in this event, or other accommodations, please contact Megan Cromwell (cromwell.34@osu.edu) . Requests made by April 30 will help provide seamless access.
Organized by the Newark Earthworks Center-John Low, Steven Gavazzi, Cheryl Cash, Marti Chaatsmith, and Megan Cromwell, with financial support from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes Program, the Center of Religion, Center for Ethnic Studies, and American Indian Studies and our donors. Thank you.
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