The speaker for the 2008 Women's Breakfast will be Bettina Arnold, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-director of the Center for Celtic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

One of the most prominent archaeologists of Iron Age Europe, Professor Arnold brings a unique perspective to the 2008 SSHA theme of temporality in social-scientific research. Professor Arnold's extensive list of publications includes: " 'Arierdammerung': Race and Archaeology in Nazi Germany" in Chris Gosden, ed. Race, Racism and Archaeology. World Archaeology 38, 1 (2006); "Pseudoarchaeology and Nationalism" in Garret G. Fagan, ed. Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public (London and New York: Routledge, 2006); Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State: The Evolution of Complex Social Systems in Prehistoric Europe, edited by Bettina Arnold and D. Blair Gibson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Bettina Arnold will be presenting her talk, "The Archaeological Foundations of the Eternal Mother."