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Sovereign Bodies: Defying Energy Colonialism in Japan and South Asia” Presenter: Dr. ann-elise lewallen (Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria)

Link for Attending Online: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69323168033 Meeting ID: 693 2316 8033 Passcode: 670928   TALK ABSTRACT: Across Asia, Indigenous relationships with ancestral land are shaped by environmental racism and neoliberal globalization. Yet, Indigenous communities in Japan and India refuse to accept these statesponsored energy development on their land. Indigenous Ainu (Japan) and Indigenous Khasi (India) engage […]

ANTH Colloquia: “Ecological Rehabilitation: A New Paradigm for Multispecies Justice” by Dr. Bastian Thomsen

  Colloquium Lecture: “Ecological Rehabilitation: A New Paradigm for Multispecies Justice” with Dr. Bastian Thomsen Date: Tuesday September 22, 2022 Time: 12:30- 3:00 PM Location: ANSO 134 Zoom Link Meeting ID: 679 1566 5830 Passcode: 885378 The Department of Anthropology invites you to our Colloquium Lecture. Please join us at ANSO 134. Please note we […]

Dr. Kim Tallbear, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society at the University of Alberta, will present the Biannual Hawthorn Lecture

Date: Tuesday September 27, 2022 Time: 4:30 PM  Reception 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Lecture and Q&A Location: Frederic Wood Theatre, 6354 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Hawthorn Lecture: “Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind” with Dr. Kim TallBear The Department of Anthropology invites you to the biannual Hawthorn Lecture, part of our 75th Anniversary year […]

ANTH Colloquia: “On Creativity and long-distance Methods in (Post) Pandemic Times” by Dr. Maruska Svasek

On Creativity and long-distance Methods in (Post) Pandemic Times This talk discusses digital creative methods, developed in response to the lockdowns and social distancing regulations under covid, in the context of fieldwork as a relational process of improvisation, knowledge production and practices of making. Zooming in on three interlocutors in Northern Ireland, it explores the […]

ANTH Colloquia: “Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line” a conversation with documentary film-maker Jan Haaken

Date: Thursday, October 27 Time: 12:30 – 2:00PM PST Location: ANSO 134 UBC Department of Anthropology Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm) people. About:Film-maker Jan Haaken tracks the Indigenous-led fight against the transport of tar sands oil from Alberta Canada into the US and follows the path of […]

Save the Date! Coffee Hour with visiting Scholar Magnus Marsden

Coffee Hour with visiting Scholar Magnus Marsden: Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex with a focus on historical ethnography, Marsden’s work has also looked at how Muslim traders navigate Eurasian connectivity. Date & Time: Wednesday Nov. 2, 2022 10:00 AM-11:15 AM PST (Coffee will be provided) […]

ANTH Colloquia: What a Mushroom Lives For Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Dr. Michael J. Hathaway

Time: 12:30 -2:00pm Location: Lino Lounge ANSO 208 Abstract This talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy that began with Anna L. Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. In this talk, Michael J. Hathaway draws from his new book, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make. […]