Wednesday, January 15, 2020 | 6:00– 7:30 PM | Frederic Wood Theatre UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs presents Claudia Rankine, New York Times bestselling poet, MacArthur “Genius” award recipient, and Professor at Yale University, as the first speaker in our 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series on Thinking While Black. The moderator for this […]

Thursday, February 20, 2020 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | UBC Life Building Arts faculty and staff are invited to submit a program proposal to host a roundtable discussion at the 2020 First Year Experience (FYE) Educators’ Symposium. Roundtable topics can fall under one or more of the following themes: Theory ↔ Practice, Educator […]

United States National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), “Step Up for Substance Use Disorder (SUD): A Drug Target Initiative for Scientists Engaged in Fundamental Research” (U18 -Clinical Trial Not Allowed). More information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-20-025.html NIDA plan to provide up […]

December 10, 2019 | 11:30 AM – 1 PM |  St. John’s College | Looking to join and build a community for BIPOC staff and faculty? Join us for the inaugural BIPOC Connections lunch – a social gathering for faculty and staff who self-identify as Black, Indigenous or as a Person of Colour (BIPOC). RSVP […]

Tools of Travel: Tourism Mobilities and the Making of Place This is a full 3-credit course that will receive an ASTU 400 course code. The only prerequisite is that students are in at least their third academic year. It is designed as a peer-run UBC Student Directed Seminar. Course Description Travel is ubiquitous throughout humanity, […]

Explore the relationships between humans and animals from an anthropological perspective, including hunting, herding, the development of domestication, animals’ roles in human spiritual and cosmological systems, and the ethical complexities of human-animal relationships in the 21st century.

Krista Ulujuk Zawadski and UBC Socio-Cultural Anthropology doctoral student Ezra Anton Greene co-wrote the essay “Isummiqtauniq: Thought Gift”, featured in the October 2019 edition of “The Isuma Book”.

Please find the November 2019 issue of Anthropology News available on our website and printed around the department for your reading pleasure.

Wednesday, November 20 | 5:00 PM | Green College Drs. Armstrong and Parrott will discuss their shared experiences in leading the development of a collaborative Silyx/UBC research cluster in ecosystem sustainability and resilience.

Full applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition. The deadline for applications is 5pm on November 12, 2019. (Research teams needed to submit a short Notice of Intent (NOI) to apply by  September 23rd, 2019.) More information available here.