Events

Public

Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun

February 21, 2025 | 12:00 AM - January 4, 2026 | 11:59 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
LOA Speaker Series, Public, Students

LOA Speaker Series: Megan Harris

May 30, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Students

Becoming a Better Scholar, Mentor, and Fellow

May 26, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Students

Department Graduation Event May 2025

May 22, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomThea's Lounge
Public, Students

Zooarchaeology Workshop with Aleksa Alaica

May 20, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Book Launch

Transect of Coexistence Book Festival featuring Sabina Magliocco

May 3, 2025 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomZoom
Co-sponsored, Conference

Place and Power: BC Studies Conference 2025

May 2, 2025 | 7:45 AM - May 4, 2025 | 4:45 PM

The Long Arc of Fascism: An Action Oriented Teach-In

April 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
room312 Main Street

A Queer Panel—Part I: Exploring Transnational 2SLGBTQ+ Migration Journeys

April 16, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomCERC Migration office

Anthropology Over Time

April 10, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomCoach House, Green College | Livestreamed
3C

3C: Sam Walker

April 9, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomLino Lounge
Public, Students

Archaeology Samples Photography Workshop

April 3, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
LOA Speaker Series, Public, Students

LOA Speaker Series: Lindsey Paskulin

April 1, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public

Atomic Photographers Guild Speaker Series: Two Nuclear Tourists in Nevada

March 26, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
LOA Speaker Series

LOA Speaker Series: Aaron Brien

March 26, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomANSO 2107
3C

3C: Lennon Mhishi

March 26, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomLino Lounge
Public, Students

UBC Archaeology Day 2025 | March 22

March 22, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Conference

East Asian Modernities and Masculinities Symposium

March 21, 2025 | 12:00 AM - March 22, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomANSO 134
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture, Lecture, Public

2025 Hawthorn Lecture: Dr. Ghassan Hage

March 20, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Students

Weaving Worlds: A Night of Magic and Myth

March 20, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomArts Student Centre
3C

3C: Sue Rowley

March 19, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomLino Lounge
Co-sponsored

John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture presents Dr. Dolly Kikon

March 13, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomFirst Nations Longhouse
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

March 13, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia, Public

Dr. Ismael Vaccaro: Understanding the contemporary Pyrenees: old crisis, new imaginaries, and multiple gentrifications

March 13, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 134
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
roomCK Choi Building
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

March 6, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
3C

3C: Carole Blackburn

March 5, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomLino Lounge

Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora

February 28, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

February 27, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
LOA Speaker Series, Public, Students

Dr. Lauren Pratt: Eyebrow of the Jungle: Adaptation and Subsistence in Peru’s Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

February 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
3C

3Cs: Lin Bu and Yafei Jiang

February 26, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomLino Lounge
Public

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

February 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

February 13, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. Jemima Nomunume Baada: What can rural-rural migrations in Ghana tell us about migration categories?

February 13, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 134
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

February 6, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

January 30, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public

Camilla Speller: Insights into Indigenous Marine Stewardship from Archaeology and Ancient Biomolecules

January 28, 2025 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Public, Students

Field ZooMS: Self-Collection for Biomolecular Bone Identifications in Archaeology

January 28, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

January 23, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

January 16, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Trends in Manitoba Archaeology

December 6, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. John Marston: Local Ecological Knowledge and Imperial Demands in Agricultural Practice

December 5, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 207
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

November 28, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

November 21, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

The Making of the Maypole: Sacred Masculinity and Ritual Preparation at Glastonbury's Beltane Festival

November 20, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Block C, room 203

Coffee, Cookies, and Community with Dr. Lane Atmore

November 20, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomLino Lounge
Public, Students

The Once and Future Fish: Marine archaeogenomics for a sustainable ocean

November 18, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 PM
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

November 14, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

November 7, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room

Coffee, Cookies, and Community with Dr. Hugh Gusterson & Dr. Allison Macfarlane

November 6, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

October 31, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Co-sponsored, Public, Students

Violent Intimacies, Trans Worldmaking, and LGBTI+ Organizing in Turkey

October 31, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Students

ARCL 306 Alaska: Indigenous Archaeology Field School Information Session

October 30, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomANSO 134
Public, Students

How Materials Come to Matter: Exploring Tuniit (Paleo-Inuit) Lithic Value through Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Amittuq, Nunavut

October 25, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

October 24, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public

From Ground Zero: 22 untold short stories in film from Gaza

October 17, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomNorm Theatre
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

October 17, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. Marco Jacquemet: Transidioma Afloat - Communication, Power, and Migration in the Mediterranean Sea.

October 17, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 207
Students

BIPOC Coffee Hour

October 17, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomANSO Building
Students

ANTH403 Ethnography of Sardinia Field School Information Session

October 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLIFE 1505
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

October 10, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room

Poner el Cuerpo: Environmental Activism in a Fumigated Town of Argentina

October 7, 2024 | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomCoach House
Co-sponsored, Lecture, Public

Dr. Roberto Barrios: Reimagining Solidarity and Resilience in a Disastrous World

October 3, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomCK Choi Building
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

October 3, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. Roberto Barrios: A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science

October 3, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 207
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

September 26, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

September 19, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. Lucy Gill, Archaeological Evidence and Indigenous Law in Settler Courts

September 19, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Students

BIPOC Coffee Hour

September 19, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomANSO Building
Lecture, Public, Students

Exploring the Practice of Heart-centred Archaeology with Natasha Lyons

September 17, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Public, Students

Archaeology Lab Nights

September 12, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBorden Research Room
Students

Imagine UBC - Join us for Anthropology Orientation

September 3, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Conference

Mini Conference: Mobilizing Knowledge Against Today's Totalitarian Trends

July 11, 2024 | 12:00 AM - July 12, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Affairs
Public

MOA’s Reopening Weekend Celebrations

June 14, 2024 | 10:00 AM - June 16, 2024 | 5:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Public

MOA's Reopening Night

June 13, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Students

Department Graduation Event

May 23, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomANSO Lounge
Co-sponsored

Law, Culture, and the Humanities 26th Annual Conference

May 17, 2024 | 12:00 AM - May 18, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomAllard Hall
Conference

International Research Conference 2024 with Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of Social Sciences

May 15, 2024 | 12:00 AM - May 16, 2024 | 11:59 PM
Students

BIPOC Coffee Hour

April 18, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomANSO Building

TA Appreciation Event

April 16, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLino Lounge
Co-sponsored

Book Talk: Between Care and Criminality

April 16, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomPeña Room, IKB
Co-sponsored

Palestine and Climate Justice: Military Emissions as Symptoms of a Genocidal Present and Future

April 4, 2024 | 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Co-sponsored, Lecture, Public

Race and the Question of Palestine with Dr. Lana Tatour

March 27, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomAllard 104
Co-sponsored, Conference, Public, Students

Archaeology Day 2024

March 16, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomANSO 207
Alumni, Students

Alt-Ac Careers with an Anthropology Degree: 4 UBC Anthropology graduates share stories from life beyond the Ivory Tower

March 12, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomANSO134
Students

Anthropology Gala: Folklore Frolic

March 8, 2024 | 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomUBC Farm Yurt
Book Launch, Co-sponsored

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

March 6, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomGEOG 100
Lecture

Beyond Species Boundaries: Moche Animal Representations and Non-Human Relationality with Aleksa Alaica

February 29, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. Cristina Moretti, "Sensing the City: Questions and Surprises in Multisensory Urban Ethnography"

February 29, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Book Launch

Anthropology Department Book Launch: Vinay Kamat, Mark Turin, Maya Wind, and Helena Zeweri

February 27, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Anthropology colloquia

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

February 15, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

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

February 8, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

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

January 25, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134

Restructuring Religiosity: Conflict, Disaster, and the Transformation of Sacred Space in Nepal with Dr. Sara Shneiderman

January 22, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Urban Ethnographic Field School Info Session

January 15, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

Dr. Maya Wind, Liberal Militarism: Conscripting Israeli Soldierly Labour to Occupy Palestinian Territory

January 11, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Alumni

Dec. 14: Andy Everson, Walking in the Footsteps of his Ancestors

December 14, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomDodson Room, IKB
Anthropology colloquia

Dec. 7: Dr. Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Dr. Michael Fabris, “Infrastructures of Colonization”

December 7, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

Nov. 30: Dr. Brenna Bhandar, "The Racial Politics of Pre-Emption"

November 30, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

Nov. 2: Dr. Shagufta Bhangu, “Ontologies of Pain: Chronicity and Desire in Biomedical Frames”

November 2, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

Sept. 28: Dr. Natahnee Winder, “Weaving Our Hearts and Minds Together: Processing the Impacts of Residential Schools Across Turtle Island”

September 28, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

Sept. 14: Dr. Bernard Perley, "Having Reservations: Ethnographing Consequential Insecurities"

September 14, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Students

Anthro-Palooza Trivia and Game Night!

April 13, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

The DCL Digital Literacy Conversation Series: Generative AI with Dr. Hugh

March 30, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomANSO134

Archaeology Day

March 24, 2023 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Anthropology colloquia

ANTH Colloquia: Join Jacquie Bouvier for a conversation with Andrew Martindale about Canada’s Colonial History

March 2, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134

The Department of Anthropology presents: "A Storytelling Evening with Faculty Emeriti"

February 9, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

UBC Roundtable on Decolonization (Co-sponsored by Green College and the Department of Anthropology)

February 1, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Hold the date! You are invited to the Department's 75th Anniversary Celebration being held at the American Anthropological Association Friday Nov 11, 2022 in Seattle

November 11, 2022 | 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Anthropology colloquia

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

November 3, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO Lounge

Save the Date! Coffee Hour with visiting Scholar Magnus Marsden

November 2, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
roomANSO Lounge

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

October 27, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Anthropology colloquia

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

October 20, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture, Lecture

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

September 27, 2022 | 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Anthropology colloquia

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

September 22, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

"Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia" by Dr. Kathryn Graber (Indiana University, Bloomington)

April 14, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Alumni, Students

UBC Archaeology Day – Registration and Program

March 19, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Students

Information Session for Honours Thesis

March 10, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomANSO134
Co-sponsored, Conference

(In-Person) Dr. Abdoulaye Kane: Villages gone digital: Villages’ WhatsApp groups and Migrants’ New Forms of Intervention in Sending Communities

March 3, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Conference, Students

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

February 10, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline
Annual Racial (in)justice lecture, Conference

Annual Racial (in)Justice Lecture: “Colonialism and Modern Social Theory: Decolonising an Absence”

January 28, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Coffee, Community, and Conversation (3Cs)

January 11, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
roomANSO Lounge
Conference

ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. Darcy L. Mathews, “Relatives of the Deep: The Ethnoecology of a Lekwungen Archipelago in the Salish Sea”

November 4, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Conference

ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. David Geary, "Taking Selfies with the Buddha: tourists, pilgrims, and archaeological intimacies in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh"

October 28, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 205 (& Hybrid)

Virtual Talk with Dr. Martin Carver: “Genetics and Memorials: People and their Remembrance in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman Sicily”

October 19, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Conference

ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. Sarah M. Lyon, “The New Anthropology PhD: Creating Student Centered and Innovative Graduate Programs”

October 14, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO134 (Hybrid)

Forum: Where is Anthropology Headed?

April 21, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Anth Colloquia: The Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology Anthropology + Design = Experiments in Participant Making

April 1, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture, Students

Brown Bag Series: Urban Language Landscapes: Designing a Digital Map of the Languages of New York City by Maya Daurio & Mark Turin

March 30, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Archeology Career Night

March 25, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lecture

Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow

March 24, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

2021 Career Night

March 23, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Anth Colloquia: The Politics of Hopi Language Circulation: How to make a sign point back

March 11, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Alumni, Students

Alumni Speaker Series: Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan launches Gringo Love

March 5, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Co-sponsored

SOCIAL EXCLUSION, SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES AND CONVIVIAL LABOUR - Dr. SUSANNE WESSENDORF

February 26, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Anth Colloquia: Relatives of the Deep: The Ethnoecology of a Lekwungen Archipelago in the Salish Sea

February 25, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Online Teaching Community of Practice

February 23, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Anth Colloquia: Spy, Patrol, Police: Black Life and the Production of Epidemiological Knowledge from Atlanta, Georgia to Freetown, Sierra Leone

February 11, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Anth Colloquia: Remediating Cartographies of Erasure Anthropology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Global Imaginary

January 28, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Annual Racial (in)justice lecture

The Inaugural Racial (In)Justice Lecture

December 8, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Whose Remembrance, of What, and to What Purpose:  Citizens Saving Japan’s Constitutional Peace Clause, and Its Relevance to Peace, War, and Canadian Multiculturalism.

November 10, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture

Hawthorn Lecture: But Does It Work? Film and Political Impact

March 3, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture

Hawthorn Lecture: Marisol de la Cadena, “When Nature is not Only Nature? Stories from the Anthropo-not-seen"

March 29, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture

2015 Hawthorn Lecture: Dr. Tim Ingold

October 5, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomBiological Sciences Bldg
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture

2009-2010 Hawthorn Lecture by Dr. Marilyn Strathern

October 14, 2009 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM