Temporal Recalibrations: Learning to See in the Liminal Spaces of Post-Wildfire Landscapes
Maya Daurio (PhD candidate) was featured in Engagement, the official blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society (AES), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It features first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists who bring an anthropological approach to understanding the pressing environmental issues of our time. Maya’s article Temporal Recalibrations: Learning to […]
Save the Dates! ANTH Colloquia Series 2023-24
The Department of Anthropology invites you to its Colloquium Series The talks and events are open to the public and are of interest to faculty, students, alumni, and community members. Where: Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO), Room 134 When: Alternating Thursdays, 12:30-2:00 pm 2023-24 Colloquium Series This year, in addition to our regular colloquia, we’re […]
ANTH Colloquia: “Contemporary Colonial Frontier Making: Thinking from the Operational Digital enclosure in Northwest China” by Professor Darren Byler
This talk examines the history and technological operations of contemporary settler colonial frontier making. By thinking from a “sub-colonial” frontier in Northwest China—defined as a colonial project of a former semi-colony—and the digital enclosure of automated surveillance and data analytics that enables it, this talk will theorize the basic operations and infrastructures of contemporary coloniality. […]
ANTH/SOCI Annual Racial (In)justice Lecture by Professor Helena Hansen
In this third annual Racial (In)Justice Lecture organized by the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology (and co-sponsored by the School of Population and Public Health), Professor Helena Hanson (UCLA) will present “Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America”. Professor Hansen will be speaking about her recently published book which looks at […]
ANTH Colloquia: “Policy, Extractivism, Decolonization” by Professor Tess Lea
This paper explores the relationship between Indigenous rights to land, extractivism and climate change exploring these connections as part of an ongoing project to make sense of the insensibilities of Indigenous social policy, at least as I know these to be in Australia, and how this relates to everything else that we might take for […]
Anthropology in the News
UBC Anthropology researchers, including Wade Davis, Hugh Gusterson, Patrick Moore, and more, have been featured in the media.