Nuxalk Strong at MOA: An Exhibition Celebrating Healing, Sovereignty, and Cultural Resurgence
If you haven’t yet visited the Nuxalk Strong exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), now is the time. Running until January 2026, this powerful showcase of Nuxalk Nation’s healing, sovereignty, and artistic legacy offers plenty of opportunity to attend more than once, as there is so much to see. As Mina Kerr-Lazenby notes in […]
PhD Candidate Felix Giroux Presents at Harvard University
Anthropology PhD candidate Felix Giroux presented a talk at Harvard University earlier this month. The talk is part of the Weatherhead Canada Program seminar series which offers presentations by public figures, scholars, artists, and experts in various fields, and provides a forum for the lively exchange of ideas on a wide range of issues. Giroux’s […]
Millie Creighton’s 35 years of service at UBC recognized in Tempus Fugit Ceremony
Congratulations to Dr. Millie Creighton who was recently inducted into the Tempus Fugit (time flies) club at UBC after 35 years of service. The Tempus Fugit and Quarter Century Club Awards is an annual ceremony that recognizes UBC faculty with 35 and 25 years of service, respectively. New members are inducted at a special dinner […]
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: “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 […]
Anth Colloquia: Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Expertise, Citizenship, and Technocratic Imagination in the Indian Himalayas
What does living with climate change mean for indigenous populations of the Indian Himalayas? How does local knowledge about the cryosphere (water in its solid form, including the snow cover and glaciers) gained through agropastoral activities contrast with knowledge produced by climate science and how does it contend with state rationality? In Zanskar, addressing […]
Anth Colloquia: Drum Breach: Error Politics, Operational Temporalities, and the U.S. WIPP Nuclear Waste Repository’s Kitty Litter Accident
In 2014 at the WIPP underground repository in New Mexico, a nuclear waste drum mispackaged with organic kitty litter erupted with fire. This ethnographic talk explores a fraught nexus of U.S. Department of Energy technopolitics, performance incentives, labor exploitations, subcontracting arrangements, and workflow accelerations that entangled to trigger the accident. Vincent […]
Anth Colloquia: Faculty and Grad Roundtable on Research During A Pandemic
Roundtable panelists will speak for 5-7 minutes each about the challenges and opportunities of adapting research to the pandemic context, drawing upon their own expertise and experiences over the past several months. The floor will then be open for conversation, moderated by this term’s Anth Colloquium coordinators, Sara Shneiderman and Hugh Gusterson. Speakers: Cailin O’Hern, […]
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Join our faculty members in discussing the latest departmental updates, book launches, researches, and other related announcements.
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