Date: Feb 9th 2023 Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Location: The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room) 6476 NW Marine Dr, UBC, Vancouver. Please join us for an evening of storytelling as we celebrate the Department of Anthropology’s 75th anniversary. Faculty emeriti, including John Barker, Michael Blake, Julie Cruikshank, […]
Join Jacquie Bouvier for a conversation with Andrew Martindale about Canada’s Colonial History, Bouvier’s own journey through its ongoing effects, and Paths Ahead. Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM PST Location: ANSO 134 The histories and ongoing effects of Indian Residential Schools include large stories woven from the experiences of individuals. […]
The DCL Digital Literacy Conversation Series Version 1: Generative AI with Dr. Hugh Gusterson When: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm; Thursday, March 30, 2023 Where: ANSO 134 and Hybrid Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66942560370?pwd=NGlMZ1dTaVRZNW1Cak9Ua0pyeDFKUT09 Remarks by: Dr. Hugh Gusterson, followed by open discussion “Algorithms are not autonomous technical objects, but complex sociotechnical systems.” (Seaver 2018, 378) The Digital Culture […]
Date: Thursday April 13 Time: 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Location: C.K. Choi Building Room 120 1855 West Mall UBC Vancouver Campus xʷməθkʷəy̓əm | Musqueam Territory Please join us for Anthro-Palooza Trivia and Game Night! Our final 75th anniversary celebration with games, trivia, crafts, conviviality, and fun. Share your Anthropology knowledge and department alum pride! Pizza and beverages will be […]
Where: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO 6303, NW Marine Drive), Room 134 When: Thursday September 14, 12:30 – 2:00 pm followed by a light lunch Having Reservations: Ethnographing Consequential Insecurities Can ethnography contribute to social justice? Ethnography as comic relief offers a graphic possibility. In an essay on Indian humor Vine Deloria Jr. wrote, “The […]
Date and Time: Thursday, September 28, 2023 12:30pm-2:00pm, followed by a light lunch Location: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO), 6303 NW Marine Drive, Room 134 Abstract: Indigenous university students across Turtle Island who learn or relearn about the impacts of residential schools’ encounter both unexpected and expected vulnerabilities about past family traumas. Indigenous students also confront the […]
Dr. Shagufta Bhangu (Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London) “Ontologies of Pain: Chronicity and Desire in Biomedical Frames” Date and Time: Thursday, November 2, 2023 12:30pm-2:00pm, followed by a light lunch in the ANSO Lino Lounge Location: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 134, 6303 NW Marine Drive Abstract: Is pain desirable? Even […]
Dr. Brenna Bhandar (Peter Allard School of Law, UBC) “The Racial Politics of Pre-Emption” Part of the Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Date and Time: Thursday, November 30, 2023 12:30pm-2:00pm, followed by a light lunch in the ANSO Lino Lounge Location: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 134, 6303 NW Marine Drive Abstract: Pre-emption is a […]
Dr. Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Dr. Michael Fabris (Geography, UBC) “Infrastructures of Colonization” Part of the 2023 Fall Colloquium Series Date and Time: Thursday, December 7, 2023 12:30pm-2:00pm, followed by a light lunch in the ANSO Lino Lounge Location: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 134, 6303 NW Marine Drive Abstract: What is the infrastructure […]
Abstract: Andy Everson’s Tlingit great-great-grandfather George Hunt worked alongside anthropologist Franz Boas for almost fifty years. During this time, the two amassed a tremendous volume of information about the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw peoples. By referencing both the published and non-published works of Hunt and Boas, Andy is working to reintegrate ancient traditions back into the potlatch and, by […]