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Annual Racial (in)justice lecture
Anthropology colloquia
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Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
January 16, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
January 23, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
January 30, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
February 6, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
February 13, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
February 20, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
February 27, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
March 6, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
March 13, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
March 20, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
March 27, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
April 3, 2025 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Trends in Manitoba Archaeology
December 6, 2024 | 11:00 AM
room
Borden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. John Marston: Local Ecological Knowledge and Imperial Demands in Agricultural Practice
December 5, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO 207
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
November 28, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
November 21, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden 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
room
Buchanan Block C, room 203
Coffee, Cookies, and Community with Dr. Lane Atmore
November 20, 2024 | 11:00 AM
room
Lino Lounge
Public, Students
The Once and Future Fish: Marine archaeogenomics for a sustainable ocean
November 18, 2024 | 10:00 AM
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
November 14, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
November 7, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Coffee, Cookies, and Community with Dr. Hugh Gusterson & Dr. Allison Macfarlane
November 6, 2024 | 11:00 AM
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
October 31, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Co-sponsored, Public, Students
Violent Intimacies, Trans Worldmaking, and LGBTI+ Organizing in Turkey
October 31, 2024 | 12:00 PM
Students
ARCL 306 Alaska: Indigenous Archaeology Field School Information Session
October 30, 2024 | 4:00 PM
room
ANSO 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
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
October 24, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public
From Ground Zero: 22 untold short stories in film from Gaza
October 17, 2024 | 6:00 PM
room
Norm Theatre
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
October 17, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. Marco Jacquemet: Transidioma Afloat - Communication, Power, and Migration in the Mediterranean Sea.
October 17, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO 207
Students
BIPOC Coffee Hour
October 17, 2024 | 10:00 AM
room
ANSO Building
Students
ANTH403 Ethnography of Sardinia Field School Information Session
October 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM
room
LIFE 1505
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
October 10, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Poner el Cuerpo: Environmental Activism in a Fumigated Town of Argentina
October 7, 2024 | 8:00 PM
room
Coach House
Co-sponsored, Lecture, Public
Dr. Roberto Barrios: Reimagining Solidarity and Resilience in a Disastrous World
October 3, 2024 | 5:30 PM
room
CK Choi Building
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
October 3, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. Roberto Barrios: A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science
October 3, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO 207
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
September 26, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
September 19, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. Lucy Gill, Archaeological Evidence and Indigenous Law in Settler Courts
September 19, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Students
BIPOC Coffee Hour
September 19, 2024 | 10:00 AM
room
ANSO Building
Lecture, Public, Students
Exploring the Practice of Heart-centred Archaeology with Natasha Lyons
September 17, 2024 | 10:30 AM
room
Borden Research Room
Public, Students
Archaeology Lab Nights
September 12, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Borden Research Room
Students
Imagine UBC - Join us for Anthropology Orientation
September 3, 2024 | 12:00 AM
Conference
Mini Conference: Mobilizing Knowledge Against Today's Totalitarian Trends
July 11, 2024 | 12:00 AM
room
Liu Institute for Global Affairs
Public
MOA’s Reopening Weekend Celebrations
June 14, 2024 | 10:00 AM
room
Museum of Anthropology
Public
MOA's Reopening Night
June 13, 2024 | 5:00 PM
room
Museum of Anthropology
Students
Department Graduation Event
May 23, 2024 | 1:00 PM
room
ANSO Lounge
Co-sponsored
Law, Culture, and the Humanities 26th Annual Conference
May 17, 2024 | 12:00 AM
room
Allard Hall
Conference
International Research Conference 2024 with Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of Social Sciences
May 15, 2024 | 12:00 AM
Students
BIPOC Coffee Hour
April 18, 2024 | 10:00 AM
room
ANSO Building
TA Appreciation Event
April 16, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
Lino Lounge
Co-sponsored
Book Talk: Between Care and Criminality
April 16, 2024 | 11:00 AM
room
Peña Room, IKB
Co-sponsored
Palestine and Climate Justice: Military Emissions as Symptoms of a Genocidal Present and Future
April 4, 2024 | 4:30 PM
Co-sponsored, Lecture, Public
Race and the Question of Palestine with Dr. Lana Tatour
March 27, 2024 | 4:00 PM
room
Allard 104
Co-sponsored, Conference, Public, Students
Archaeology Day 2024
March 16, 2024 | 12:00 AM
room
ANSO 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
room
ANSO134
Students
Anthropology Gala: Folklore Frolic
March 8, 2024 | 4:30 PM
room
UBC 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
room
GEOG 100
Lecture
Beyond Species Boundaries: Moche Animal Representations and Non-Human Relationality with Aleksa Alaica
February 29, 2024 | 4:00 PM
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. Cristina Moretti, "Sensing the City: Questions and Surprises in Multisensory Urban Ethnography"
February 29, 2024 | 12:30 PM
Book Launch
Anthropology Department Book Launch: Vinay Kamat, Mark Turin, Maya Wind, and Helena Zeweri
February 27, 2024 | 3:30 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
room
ANSO134
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
room
ANSO134
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. Lochlann Jain, Heroic Intimacies: Drowning as an Archive of Air and Water
January 25, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Restructuring Religiosity: Conflict, Disaster, and the Transformation of Sacred Space in Nepal with Dr. Sara Shneiderman
January 22, 2024 | 12:30 PM
Urban Ethnographic Field School Info Session
January 15, 2024 | 3:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Anthropology colloquia
Dr. Maya Wind, Liberal Militarism: Conscripting Israeli Soldierly Labour to Occupy Palestinian Territory
January 11, 2024 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Alumni
Dec. 14: Andy Everson, Walking in the Footsteps of his Ancestors
December 14, 2023 | 5:00 PM
room
Dodson Room, IKB
Anthropology colloquia
Dec. 7: Dr. Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Dr. Michael Fabris, “Infrastructures of Colonization”
December 7, 2023 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Anthropology colloquia
Nov. 30: Dr. Brenna Bhandar, "The Racial Politics of Pre-Emption"
November 30, 2023 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Anthropology colloquia
Nov. 2: Dr. Shagufta Bhangu, “Ontologies of Pain: Chronicity and Desire in Biomedical Frames”
November 2, 2023 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
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
room
ANSO134
Anthropology colloquia
Sept. 14: Dr. Bernard Perley, "Having Reservations: Ethnographing Consequential Insecurities"
September 14, 2023 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
Students
Anthro-Palooza Trivia and Game Night!
April 13, 2023 | 5:30 PM
The DCL Digital Literacy Conversation Series: Generative AI with Dr. Hugh
March 30, 2023 | 4:00 PM
room
ANSO134
Archaeology Day
March 24, 2023 | 4:30 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
room
ANSO134
The Department of Anthropology presents: "A Storytelling Evening with Faculty Emeriti"
February 9, 2023 | 5:30 PM
UBC Roundtable on Decolonization (Co-sponsored by Green College and the Department of Anthropology)
February 1, 2023 | 3:00 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
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
room
ANSO Lounge
Save the Date! Coffee Hour with visiting Scholar Magnus Marsden
November 2, 2022 | 10:00 AM
room
ANSO 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
room
ANSO134
Anthropology colloquia
ANTH Colloquia: "On Creativity and long-distance Methods in (Post) Pandemic Times" by Dr. Maruska Svasek
October 20, 2022 | 12:30 PM
room
ANSO134
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
Anthropology colloquia
ANTH Colloquia: "Ecological Rehabilitation: A New Paradigm for Multispecies Justice" by Dr. Bastian Thomsen
September 22, 2022 | 12:30 PM
"Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia" by Dr. Kathryn Graber (Indiana University, Bloomington)
April 14, 2022 | 12:30 PM
Alumni, Students
UBC Archaeology Day – Registration and Program
March 19, 2022 | 9:30 AM
Students
Information Session for Honours Thesis
March 10, 2022 | 5:00 PM
room
ANSO134
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
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
room
Online
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
Coffee, Community, and Conversation (3Cs)
January 11, 2022 | 11:00 AM
room
ANSO 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
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
room
ANSO 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
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
room
ANSO134 (Hybrid)
Forum: Where is Anthropology Headed?
April 21, 2021 | 1:00 PM
Anth Colloquia: The Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology Anthropology + Design = Experiments in Participant Making
April 1, 2021 | 12:30 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
Archeology Career Night
March 25, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Lecture
Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow
March 24, 2021 | 12:15 PM
2021 Career Night
March 23, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Anth Colloquia: The Politics of Hopi Language Circulation: How to make a sign point back
March 11, 2021 | 12:30 PM
Alumni, Students
Alumni Speaker Series: Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan launches Gringo Love
March 5, 2021 | 4:00 PM
Co-sponsored
SOCIAL EXCLUSION, SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES AND CONVIVIAL LABOUR - Dr. SUSANNE WESSENDORF
February 26, 2021 | 10:00 AM
Anth Colloquia: Relatives of the Deep: The Ethnoecology of a Lekwungen Archipelago in the Salish Sea
February 25, 2021 | 12:30 PM
Online Teaching Community of Practice
February 23, 2021 | 12:30 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
Anth Colloquia: Remediating Cartographies of Erasure Anthropology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Global Imaginary
January 28, 2021 | 12:30 PM
Annual Racial (in)justice lecture
The Inaugural Racial (In)Justice Lecture
December 8, 2020 | 12:30 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
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture
Hawthorn Lecture: But Does It Work? Film and Political Impact
March 3, 2020 | 5:00 PM
room
Multipurpose 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
room
Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture
2015 Hawthorn Lecture: Dr. Tim Ingold
October 5, 2015 | 3:30 PM
room
Biological Sciences Bldg
Biannual Harry Hawthorn lecture
2009-2010 Hawthorn Lecture by Dr. Marilyn Strathern
October 14, 2009 | 2:30 PM
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