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Through excellence in research, teaching, field-based inquiry, and community collaboration, UBC Anthropology advances the study and constructive understanding of human diversity and commonality locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Apply by Nov. 8 | Hugh Gusterson’s Lind Initiative Seminar

 
UBC students are invited to apply to the 3-credit Phil Lind Initiative Seminar on the topic of the 2024 Phil Lind Initiative series, What It Means to Be “American”: Navigating Identity in a Changing Nation, taking place in the Winter Term-2 semester of 2025.

PhD Candidate Felix Giroux Presents at Harvard University

 
Anthropology PhD candidate Felix Giroux presented a talk at Harvard University earlier this month. The talk is part of the Weatherhead Canada Program seminar series which offers presentations by public figures, scholars, artists, and experts in

Congratulations to our SSHRC Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant Awardees

 
Congratuations to Anthropology's Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann and Dr. Mark Turin who have been awarded SSHRC Insight Grants, and Postgraduate Fellow Courtneay Hopper who has received an Insight Development Grant.
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Upcoming Events

Public, Students

The Once and Future Fish: Marine archaeogenomics for a sustainable ocean

November 18, 2024
10:00 am - 10:45 pm
Free


Students

BIPOC Coffee Hour

November 21, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am


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Anthropology colloquia

Dr. John Marston: Local Ecological Knowledge and Imperial Demands in Agricultural Practice

December 5, 2024
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm


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Sloan Ferguson
BA 2021, Anthropology