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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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Remaking connections through art(ifacts)

 
Kristen Barnett is leading an Indigenous archaeology lab that will help communities reconnect with rematriated items.

Getting Them ‘Out of the Way’: Consent and Forcible Transfer in the US-Australia Refugee Swap Deal of 2016

 
Dr. Helena Zeweri recently published an editorial in Today's Totalitarianism called: "Getting Them 'Out of the Way': Consent and Forcible Transfer in the US-Australia Refugee Swap Deal of 2016. Today's Totalitarianism is an interdisciplinary

Q&A with Dr. Lennon Mhishi

 
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Lennon Mhishi, our latest faculty member. Dr. Mhishi was kind enough to answer a few questions about his current research and what his students can look forward to learning in his classes. Welcome Dr. Mhishi!
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Upcoming Events

Public

Opening Celebrations of Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun

February 20, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora

February 28, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm


Co-sponsored, Lecture

Earth, Gods, and the Politics of Enchantment: A Political Ecology of the Imagination with Adrian Ivakhiv

March 12, 2025
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm


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Broaden your horizon under the teachings of empathetic people

Sloan Ferguson
BA 2021, Anthropology