Presentations
Conference Presentations
2024 Alders, W. “Modeling Socioecological Transformation in Coastal East Africa: A Case Study from Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania.” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In the session “Islands Around Africa: State of the Art and Future Directions.” Chair: Krish Seetah.
2024 Dumitru, I.; Alders, W. “Dynamic Coasts and Landscapes of Resilience: Archaeological and Environmental Hotspot Modeling on the Swahili Coast (Sixth–Nineteenth Century CE).” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In the session “Environmental Archaeology in Africa.” Chair: Asia Alsgaard.
2023 Alders, W. “Heterarchy, Anti-Colonial Infrastructures, and the Busaid State in 19th Century Zanzibar”. Society of Africanist Archaeologists Biennial Meeting. In 25 Years Beyond Chiefdoms: Susan McIntosh’s Pathways to Complexity Influence on African Archaeology. Co-Chairs: Carla Klehm and Wolfgang Alders.
2023 Alders, W., Haines, J. “Landscapes of Stone in Mauritius and Zanzibar.” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In the session “Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Application”. Chairs: Sarah Watson and Elizabeth Clay.
2021 Alders, W. “Long-Term Settlement in Plantation Regions of Unguja, Zanzibar.” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In the session, “Uses of Survey in Worldwide Contemporary Archaeology”. Session organizer: Wolfgang Alders, University of California, Berkeley.
2021 Alders, W. “Settlement and Environment on Zanzibar in the Context of the Western Indian Ocean”. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. Discussant in the lightning round panel “An Ocean of connections: tangible and intangible exchanges in the IOW”. Organizers: Stefania Manfio and Alessandra Cianciosi.
2017 Alders, W., Khamis Ali, A. “Preliminary Results of Geoarchaeological Sampling and Survey to Investigate Landscape History in Northern Unguja, Zanzibar.” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In the panel, “Advances in Geoarchaeological Research Methods”. Session organizer: Michael Wilson, Simon Fraser University.
Other Presentations
2024 Early Globalization and Ancient Connectivity on the Eastern African Swahili Coast: A View from Pangani Bay in Northern Tanzania. Invited talk, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.
2024 “Zanzibar resembles a city with a hostile army encamped in its neighborhood”: Coastal Raiding and the Archaeology of Refuge on the Swahili Coast”. Invited talk, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Advanced Seminar, Archaeologies of Forced Migration: Approaches, Case Studies and Prospects. Organized by Li Min and Aaron Burke, UCLA
2023 Integration and Autonomy in the Island Hinterland of Zanzibar Stone Town, 8th-19th centuries CE. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
2022 Exploring Swahili Urban Transformations. Anthropology Brown Bag, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2022 Uneven Ground: The Archaeology of Settlement Reorganization in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
2020 Land Use, Labor, and Long-Term History in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania. African Archaeology Research Day. University of Leicester
2020 Long-Term Inland Settlement and Agricultural Change in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
2016 Cultivating Cosmopolitanism: Long-Term Archaeological Histories, Agriculture and Poetry in Zanzibar. In Symposium on Early Modern Identities. UC Berkeley
2016 Becoming Zanzibar: Comparative Archaeological and Ecological Histories of Unguja and Pemba. Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Wolfgang Alders, 2024