Forward Into the Past 20| Date | March 27, 2010 |
| Place | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Adult Pre-Reg Price | $15.00 whole day |
| Student/Senior Pre-Reg Price | $10.00 whole day |
| Child Pre-Reg Price | $5.00 whole day |
| Adult Day-Reg Price | $20.00 whole day |
| Student/Senior Day-Reg Price | $15.00 whole day |
| Child Day-Reg Price | $10.00 whole day |
| Site Cost | $ 0.00 |
| Speakers Cost | $ 0.00 |
| Advertising Cost | $ 0.00 |
| Other Costs | $ 520.39 |
| Profit | $1057.86 |
Interesting Stats Class Statistics Comments from Attendees
# - Session has attendance limits
$ - Session has a materials fee
| Class (Full List) | Speaker (Full List) | Time | Attendence |
| A Journey into Complete Darkness | Nicholas Cioran | 2:00 | 12 |
| An Iroquoian Longhouse reconstruction: Finding the Fact within the Fiction | Jeremie Landry | 4:00 | 6 |
| Bad Handwriting and Funny Names: The Coalbrookdale Papers | Ronald A. Ross, Ph.D., Terrence Saulnier, Josh Cadman | 10:30 | 9 |
| Bead Production in Scandinavia: converting archaeological evidence to a practical method | Neil Peterson | 11:30 | 4 |
| Beyond the Book of Kells: Ripping off Celtic Motifs | Eve Harris | 2:00 | 9 |
| Bone Carving | Steven Strang | 2:00 | 14 |
| Building a Viking Ship Model - A Boat for the Burning | Gary Snyder | 4:00 | 6 |
| Building the Coppergate Helm | Mila Little | 2:00 | 6 |
| Chainmail - Beyond the Basics | Jerry Penner | 3:00 | 13 |
| Chainmail for Beginners | Jerry Penner | 1:00 | 15 |
| Clothing in 13th Century Spain | Laura Stein | 1:00 | 8 |
| Coptic Clothing | Larisa Kallaur-Telford | 11:30 | 2 |
| Costuming Research (1000 - 1800 A.D) | Amy Menary | 4:00 | 17 |
| Dances from Tudor England (Gresley Dances) | Richard Schweitzer, Sarah Scroggie | 1:00 | 9 |
| Egg Tempra Painting | CANCELLED | 10:30 | 2 |
| English Country Dance | Brent McCrackin | 2:00 | 14 |
| Feet firmly in the past - Shoes from the Viking Age 800 - 1050 | Marcus Burnham | 11:30 | 23 |
| Finnish women's clothing from excavation to interpretation | Sarah Backa | 2:00 | 15 |
| Flemish Costume: The Sum of its Parts | Pamela Bottrill | 10:30 | 10 |
| Flint and Steel Fire Striking | Mark Patchett | 3:00 | 17 |
| Gypsies in Portraiture: Truth or Fiction? | Karina Bates | 3:00 | 6 |
| Habits of mind; How tools affect thinking | V.M. Roberts, Cary Timar | 2:00 | 22 |
| History in Video Games | James Diamond | 4:00 | 14 |
| How Holy is War? | Simon Newcombe | 4:00 | 11 |
| Iceland - Geography & Museums | Neil Peterson, Karen Peterson | 3:00 | 20 |
| Inns of Court | David Learmonth | 11:30 | 8 |
| Intermediate Glass Beads "The fancy stuff" | Jean Ross | 10:30 | 2 |
| Intro to 15th Century Italian Dance | David Learmonth | 3:00 | 11 |
| Introduction to Drop Spinning | Bridget Jankowski | 3:00 | 16 |
| Introduction to Fibre Prep for Spinning | Bridget Jankowski | 11:30 | 6 |
| Introduction to Mead Making | Jeff Johnston | 4:00 | 11 |
| Introduction to Tablet Weaving | Rob Schweitzer | 10:30 | 17 |
| Iron Smelting in Vinland: converting archaeological evidence to a practical method | Darrell Markewitz | 1:00 | 16 |
| Italian Dance for English Country Dancers | Marc Collins | 10:30 | 11 |
| Japanese cooking | Brendan Smith | 1:00 | 12 |
| Large Menu Planning | Jean Ross, Martin Ross | 4:00 | 3 |
| Meaningful Scratches | Steven Strang | 11:30 | 10 |
| Non-Stop Dance Workout | Marc Collins | 4:00 | 14 |
| Norse Music | Richard Schweitzer | 3:00 | 14 |
| Norse Sagas - the Bloody, Bawdy and Bizarre | Richard Schweitzer | 10:30 | 38 |
| Not Just Costume - Reenactors as serious historians | Christian Cameron | 11:30 | 15 |
| Out on the town in 10th century Reykjavik: a survey of jewelry, dress and textiles in early Iceland | Michèle Hayeur Smith, Ph.D. | 9:00 | 98 |
| Pottery: An experimental early-period Pit Fire | Karina Bates | 10:30 | 5 |
| Practical Embroidery | Larisa Kallaur-Telford | 2:00 | 18 |
| Redacting Theolphilus | Mila Little | 10:30 | 6 |
| Repeating Celtic Knotwork designs | CANCELLED | 1:00 | 3 |
| Run for fear, spring cleaning's here! Victorian approaches to housework. | CANCELLED | 10:30 | 3 |
| SCA Armoured Combat Demonstration | Mark Patchett | 11:30 | 19 |
| Setting the Scene: Interpretive Methods for Living History | Darrell Markewitz | 4:00 | 17 |
| Stepping through Time: shoes from 1600-1900 | Peter Monahan | 1:00 | 12 |
| Tablet Woven Artefacts | Rob Schweitzer | 2:00 | 1 |
| The Archaeology of Caribbean and Atlantic Piracy | Anatoly Venovcev | 10:30 | 5 |
| The End of an Empire | David Porreca, Ph.D., Laura Roncone | 1:00 | 10 |
| The Lost Cathedral: Exploring Cluny in 3 Dimensions | Pamela Bottrill | 3:00 | 3 |
| The importance of excellence in material culture | Aurora Simmons | 3:00 | 9 |
| Three fingers hold the pen... | Scott Caple | 11:30 | 9 |
| Treasure Necklaces | Jean Ross | 1:00 | 7 |
| Tree of Life - Myth & Symbolism | Bonnie Coursolle | 3:00 | 8 |
| Viking Combat Demonstration | Mark Patchett, Ilya Shkarupin | 1:00 | 26 |
| Viking Navigation Techniques | Fred Blonder | 11:30 | 17 |
| Warp Weighted loom - a Hands-On Introduction | Karen Peterson | 1:00 | 16 |
| Who were the Samurai? | Brendan Smith | 10:30 | 12 |
Summary of 51 Feedback Forms
Spelling and grammar are that of the participants, editorial notes are in [these brackets]What Class did you like the most and why?- Keynote very good. Even if she didn't go into details of things I most wished for, but she was still overwhelmingly interesting, personable, and listenable.
- Beginner's Chainmail + Longhouse one - Because the first one sounded cool and the second one had a cute presenter. :)
- Norse Sagas & Shoes from 1600 - 1900 - great pics, great speakers.
- Stepping Through Time: shoes from 1600 - 1900 - great photos and knowledge of techniques
- Out on the town in 10th century Reykjavik - actual experience and knowledge
- All - I learned new skills
- English Country Dances - simple and lively and more common
- Not Just Costume - Reenactors as serious historians. Interesting, entertaining, informative
- All of them! They were so fun and interesting
- Const. Viking Long ship - well detailed, experienced, with completing model
- Dance
- Re-enactors as Serious Historians
- Habits of Mind - very informative
- Setting the Scene
- Iroquioran Longhouse Reconstr.
- Costuming Research - practical, clear, immediately applicable. What I was looking for.
- Chainmail because it was FUN!
- Viking Combat! EPIC
- Japanese cooking + Drop Spindle - fun, food
- Viking Combat Demo
- Archaeology of Piracy :)
- Bone Carving!! Very informative
- Sagas: Bawdy, Bloody, and Bizarre
- Dancing because it was fun & interactive
- History in Videogames - unique, interesting, ordered
- Setting the Scene an interesting view on the game we are all playing
- Calligraphy (Three fingers hold the pen) - great teacher! very good balance of hands on and lecture
- Bone carving - It was very informative and a relaxed environment
- It's hard to compete with the SCA and Viking Combat demonstration, but I also loved the Norse Sagas
- Intro to drop spindle - productive and learned a new skill
- Keynote was really interesting but also liked Marcus's shoe talk
- Chainmail because it was fun!
- Chainmail / Tree of Life - Hands on fun!
- weighted weaving and spinning - good speakers :)
- SCA combat - very informative
- Archaeology of Carribean and Atlantic Piracy - Yarrr!
- Keynote - excellent
- Bead Production - excellent
- Iron Smelt - excellent
- A Journey into Complete Darkness - excellent speaker, organized presentation, brainstorming and gameplay at end
- Keynote - animated, varied pace, thought provoking
- Flemish Costume - good opinions / ideas and visuals
- Tools and Thinking - thought provoking also, goes to cause
- Tablet weaving - very knowledgeable and fun
- Costuming Research - interesting
- Chainmail vrs#2 [version 2? - the advanced session]
- I liked the flint and steel thing the most because I learned a lot
- Setting the Scene (starting historic group)
- Flint and Steel Firemaking - very useful, quickly applied class
- Liked all
- A Journey into Darkness
- All Excellent
- Neil's beads at 11am
- Tablet Weaving / Warp Weighted Loom - personal interest
- Flint and Steel fire striking because I already knew a little about it
- Norse music because I am a music major
- How Holy is war because Simon invited me
- Setting the Scene - nice to see the theory coming together into a comprehensive whole. I look forward to the book he has to be writing!
What Class did you like the least and why?
- Finnish Costuming. Just because I think there wasn't a clear definition of the premise and there might have been some confusion about what we were looking at, and her presentation skills
- I enjoyed both
- History in Videogames. This is not a marketing pitch, it's a history talk, or should be; focussed too much on nitty-gritty of one particular game. Maybe should compare games; I liked the comparison of original units to the new units -> there should have been more of that
- Viking Navigation Techniques - not enough info, would like more visual material
- I actually liked the Reenactor session but I didn't realize most of the attendees were re-enactors - they seemed surprised that a person not involved with re-enacting would attend the session. The speaker was very enjoyable, informative & funny though
- Viking Navigation - poorly executed
- History in Videogames - short presentation, very specific, not quite what was expected
- Not applicable
- Who are the Samurai - not well prepared, no diagrams, talked about things not on topic
- Finnish Costume
- Holy war - young presenter, needed some guidance on building a hypothesis and analysising it - great topic though
- 13th C. Spain clothing - sources not given
- Viking Navigation - could have been done better
- Can't say - all good
- Lecture at beginning (according to a 9 year old)
- Viking Navigation Techniques - least applicable to me
- Bead-making - not enough hands-on material
- None
- All good
- Habits of Mind - misdirected, rushed, chaotic
- Viking Navigation - good information, but not enough coverage
- They were all great!
- History in Videogames - It just did not address the issues or games I had assumed
- Beyond the Book of Kells - but that was because that I was going to in that time slot was cancelled, so I was disappointed by that
- Ripping off Celtic motifs - not living up to its name
- n/a
- The End of an Empire - b/c it wasn't interesting
- Book of Kells - odd take on art
- I liked them all - the least... meaningful scratches, but I still liked it
- None
- Iceland: Geography and Museums - cause I can make fun of Neil and get away with it
- Pet fine - good but could have been 1/2 hour session
- Importance of excellence in Material Culture - not so good
- Norse sagas - speaking style, the other talks introduced me to the culture of historical re-enactment, which was more interesting, added depth
- Holy War - many inaccuracies, inexperience, too long video clips
- Warp weighted loom class - tried to ask questions + suggest & was ignored
- Stepping through time - too short :(
- None!
- N.A.
- Viking Combat - not historic and seemed juvenile
- End of Empire
- N/A
- Spinning - I am a terrible spinner
- Early Period Shoes - too much information to absorb on the slides, lost my attention, could have looked up the details afterwards with references
What other classes would you like to see?
- More varied domestic technology. food.
- Something about African history
- Loved hands-on stuff / making things - shoes; - beads; - painting
- Medieval Era Clothes
- Medieval dances, more brawls
- More emphasis on making things - less on sources
- Maybe more on ancient greece and rome
- More history oriented information, maybe 14 century clothing construction
- More hands-on
- There were so many interesting ones
- More how to classes
- Armour and combat
- On the Gods. Norse.
- Nallbinding
- Native Canadian / American textiles / food
- Norse Art
- More classes on creating historically accurate items
- Battles, famous ones
- Discussions of specific time periods / events eg. early Islamic Spain
- More arts classes ie. styles of painting, cooking
- Perhaps more about History and media, or more craft classes
- I was really happy with the combat demonstrations and the re-enactment classes, and would love to see more of them
- Archaeology
- More crafts :)
- Piracy archaeology, Roman food, Greek Pirates
- Bone Carving
- How to burn a village Viking style
- How to kill a persona and get away with it
- Wood carver
- Blacksmith - Iron work demo
- Metal casting
- Copper smith - copper pot maker
- Flint knapping
- Time travel (esp. how to be in 2 classes at once)
- Jewellry through the Middle Ages
- Forging / Weapon Making
- A sword fighting training workshop
- More hands-on almost any subject
- Move how holy is war?
- Costuming / PC - Edwardian
- Bead-making, metal casting, dyeing
- More on Music
- Sociology of living in a Viking Era longhouse - notions of personal privacy and sex, rape, birth control, gender roles, hospitality, not killing each other in long, confining winters
How did you hear about us?- Ha!
- Roomate
- Been coming for years
- My daughter attends Laurier
- Medieval Students Society
- via the SCA
- Internet, Tidings newsletter
- Archaeology Society
- Website
- 4th year coming
- Taught here!
- Friends and girlfriend
- Friend
- SCA
- SCA and repeat presenters
- family member in SCA
- Simon
- Simon
- from College Royal
- At living history conference in London Ont Feb 10
- from Anatoly (speaker)
- SCA
- SCA
- Laurier Arch Society
- Internet
- Mailing List
- Simon
- through a friend
- WLU Medieval Students Society
- I was a speaker at this last year
- SCA
- Simon
- Medieval Student Society
- E-mail
- volunteer
- I'm on the organizing committee
- Darrel Markowitz told me
- Neil Peterson
- Neil - arm twisting
- Ealdormere calendar & Unnr
- SCA involvement
- A friend
- a flyer
- SCA calendar
- I went last year and plan on coming every year
- regular partcipant
- friend (Simon)
- I forget
- previous years
- Neil!!!
- married the man!
Other Comments- Oops. I needed a map! Alphabetize the Pre-Reg sign in sheets. Real pity about the lobby displays.
- Fun times and educational!
- Enjoyed the wider variety of topics this year
- Every session was very interesting, the course instructors patient and kind and there was great variety. It was hard to decide which class to register for. I will attend again next year.
- So awesome! Definitely want to do it again and recommend it to my friends!
- The university [organizers not University] needs to provide a larger space and more staff for lunch. But lunch was tasty.
- Great work.
- Couldn't find site; missed keynote :(
- Vikings! EPIC!
- Better directions (actual number address on websie) & signage outside
- Good keynote, well tempered to group. Let's reduce fear re: jurying process & get more papers online
- The 'crafts' courses should be longer & perhaps sorted out in the day better. ie. all crafts in the afternoon & all lectures in the morning.
- Timing seemed more an issue then in previous years - possibly due to new site - otherwise I loved it being at the campus
- Good job.
- Great Luch work!
- Could not get to: Longhouse reconstruction, warp loom, weaving, foot ware 800 - 1050, shoes
- Suggestions: expand time frame of speakers to 1856
- I will return and bring more people
- Please include websites of speakers
- Awesome. Historical re-enactment people are totally insane
- Like the University location, Confused by layout/ map
- Lunch table needs to move faster! Food was great.
- Go Simon!
- Never enough time. would like to take all classes!
- parking hard to find, directions weak
- Hugely interesting, very useful
- It was well organized
- I can't wait for Bricker next year - a much better building! And no mean business students!!
- I didn't get to put in on the comment card, but you should know what a great time I had. The organization ran smoothly, the workshops were run well, the people were friendly, and I learned a lot. The chainmail session and English country dancing were particularly fun. I will definitely be recommending it to everyone I know next year, and come from out of town for it.
