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Dr. Lochlann Jain, Heroic Intimacies: Drowning as an Archive of Air and Water

Heroic Intimacies: Drowning as an Archive of Air and Water Part of the 2024 Spring Colloquia Series About the Speaker: Dr. Lochlann Jain is an award-winning author and Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, Visiting Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’ College London, and a Research Affiliate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg. His […]

Dr. Aleksa Alaica: Interpreting the Past through Non-Human Eyes: Animals, Reciprocity and Multispecies Kin in the Andes

Interpreting the Past through Non-Human Eyes: Animals, Reciprocity and Multispecies Kin in the Andes  Part of the 2024 Spring Colloquium Series About the Speaker: Aleksa K. Alaica is an anthropological archaeologist who investigates the way that state formation, exchange, and worldview are mediated by the lives and agency of non-human animals. By examining animals as […]

Dr. Helena Zeweri, “Governing the Unknowable: Migrant Family Relations and the Epistemology of Hiddenness in Australian Social Welfare”

Part of the 2024 Spring Colloquium Series About the Speaker: Dr. Helena Zeweri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UBC. She was drawn to the field of Anthropology because of its ability to attend to how people navigate relations of power in everyday life. Her work aims to provide a critical ethnographic […]

Discussion of Maya Wind’s New Book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

NOTE: This event has sold out. RSVPs are required and checked in at the door. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom   Please join us for a discussion of Dr. Maya Wind’s new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso Press), exploring how Israeli […]

Anthropology Gala: Folklore Frolic

Are you ready for a break from classes and a chance to hang out with your fellow anthropology peers? Please join us for a night of folklore, friends, food, and festivities at Folklore Frolic: An Anthropology Night’s Dream, this year’s Anthropology Gala on March 8th from 4:30-8:30. It will be held in the UBC Farm Yurt with food, music, and games! […]

Archaeology Day 2024

UBC’s Archaeology Day Symposium is an annual event that showcases to the UBC community and wider public current archaeological research being done by students and faculty in the Anthropology and AMNE and departments. This year’s meeting will take place on Saturday, March 16th.  The theme of this year’s Archaeology Day is “Place and Power.” Since archaeology’s […]

MOA’s Reopening Night

MOA is reopening! Celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Museum on June 13 at 5pm. After an 18-month closure, MOA is thrilled to welcome visitors through our doors once again following the completion of the Great Hall seismic upgrades. Be the first to see the newly rebuilt Great Hall, and experience the revitalized and reinterpreted […]