We are delighted to announce the establishment of the new UBC Centre for Migration Studies that will support innovative migration research, knowledge mobilization, and teaching and learning, as well as opportunities for connecting with community partners and policy realms. The Centre is the first migration research centre of its kind in Western Canada.  The Faculty […]

  Dr. Tracey Heatherington has joined our Department from the University of Wisconsin where she was Associate Professor of Anthropology since 2008, and where she also recently served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School. With a PhD from Harvard, and BA and MA from McGill, Dr. Heatherington has finally made her way back to Canada. Dr. Heatherington is an environmental anthropologist […]

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  Asian Canadian and Asian American Experience and Ethnography course: To see the poster click here. ANTH 495A-200 Ethnography of Special Areas:  Asian Canadian and Asian American Experience and Ethnography course This class is dedicated to ethnographic engagement to further understandings of Asian Canadian experience that will at times be compared with or put in […]

  All courses in the Department of Anthropology will be offered only online in Winter terms 1 and 2.  Many courses will be blended, with asynchronous and synchronous delivery.  However, this is subject to change.  

The October 2020 edition of the department’s newsletter is now available under the News tab.  

    CANDIS CALLISON Associate Professor, School of Journalism, UBC   What would a multi voice anthropology of the present tell us about the role that journalism organizations can and should play in the repair (Jackson, 2014), reform and transformation of the field of journalism? The talk draws on Callison and Young’s new book, Reckoning: […]

  What does living with climate change mean for indigenous populations of the Indian Himalayas? How does local knowledge about the cryosphere (water in its solid form, including the snow cover and glaciers) gained through agropastoral activities contrast with knowledge produced by climate science and how does it contend with state rationality? In Zanskar, addressing […]

      In 2014 at the WIPP underground repository in New Mexico, a nuclear waste drum mispackaged with organic kitty litter erupted with fire. This ethnographic talk explores a fraught nexus of U.S. Department of Energy technopolitics, performance incentives, labor exploitations, subcontracting arrangements, and workflow accelerations that entangled to trigger the accident.   Vincent […]

Roundtable panelists will speak for 5-7 minutes each about the challenges and opportunities of adapting research to the pandemic context, drawing upon their own expertise and experiences over the past several months. The floor will then be open for conversation, moderated by this term’s Anth Colloquium coordinators, Sara Shneiderman and Hugh Gusterson. Speakers: Cailin O’Hern, […]