Events at: ANSO134

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

Liberal Militarism: Conscripting Israeli Soldierly Labour to Occupy Palestinian Territory Part of the 2024 Spring Colloquium Series Abstract:How does the Israeli state recruit and maintain soldierly labor in service of the occupation of Palestinian territory? This talk follows youth education programs operated by the Nahal, a hybrid combat-educational brigade of the Israeli military. It explores […]

Urban Ethnographic Field School Info Session

Info session: The Urban Ethnographic Field School Date: Monday, January 15, 2024 Time: 3:30-4:30 pm Location: ANSO 134 Please join us for an information session about the Urban Ethnographic Field School (UEFS). The UEFS is a six-week, six-credit intensive course during the first summer term, with students meeting four days a week (Monday to Thursday). […]

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 […]

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

Join us for an evening of stories from recent UBC Anthropology graduates who have successful alt-ac (alternative-academic) careers. We’ve invited a panel of grads with a variety of experiences to discuss some of the possible career paths once you graduate with your Anthropology degree. Panel discussion starts at 5pm in ANSO 134, and there will […]

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

Archaeological Evidence and Indigenous Law in Settler Courts: Ruegg & Ellsworth v. City of Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Shellmound Project Speaker: Dr. Lucy Gill (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC Anthropology) When & Where: Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 | 12:30pm-2:00pm Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 134, 6303 NW Marine Drive Light refreshments to follow […]