UBC Anthropology Students' Association

03/19/2021

03/08/2021

Hello Anthropology students!

This year Archaeology Day will be held online on Saturday, March 20th from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

There will be a fascinating keynote address by Michael Harrower (Assoc. Prof, Johns Hopkins U) titled "Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West."

The zoom registration link is on the attached poster. Or, use this link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MpcOGuqj8tGNZsaMGbihiX6IANri6b0Z1h

02/23/2021

Hi everyone, The Ethnograph is accepting paper submissions until the 21st of March! You can submit up to two papers in the fields of anthropology or archaeology. Each paper should be between about 8-15 double-spaced pages and must include an abstract (~300 words).

Please submit your paper(s) in docx format to this Google Form: https://forms.gle/YgkkuHFQmnyVLpcR9

The Ethnograph is also offering a $100 award for Best Publication. We're looking forward to everyone's submissions! If you or someone you know is interested and has any further questions, feel free to message The Ethnograph page or email [email protected].

Best of luck!

02/12/2021

Happening now!

02/11/2021

Hey ANTH and ARCL students!

Don't forget that tomorrow (February 11) is the UBC Anthropology Department's "Meet the Heads" event for 2020-21! We'd love to see you at the Zoom event at 4-5pm. We encourage all students (including those undeclared and/or new to the department) to come by to meet the Department heads, Dr. Alexia Bloch and Dr. Andrew Martindale, to share your ideas on how we can work to make the department an even better place to complete your major or minor. Updates will also be shared on work that has been done since last year's conversation.

If you are not a declared ANTH/ARCL major/minor, or no longer have the email from Dr. Bloch with the Zoom link, please message us on Facebook and we will provide you with the Zoom details.

11/25/2020

ANTH 495A-200 Ethnography of Special Areas:

Asian Canadian and Asian American Experience and Ethnography course

This class is dedicated to ethnographic engagement to further understandings of Asian Canadian experience that will at times be compared with or put in context with parallels in the Asian American experience. Issues to be covered include the historic exclusion of Chinese immigrants to Canada through the head tax, along with the importance of the Chinatown area now as a place icon for Vancouver; the uprooting, removal, and incarceration of Japanese Canadians during WWII, a process which denied their existence and rights as Canadians and instead projected them as part of the country from which they or their forebears had immigrated; and the struggles for Redress by which Canada (and the United States) had to acknowledge the wrongs of removal and internment of Japanese-Canadians. We will also explore the rise in the Korean Canadian community, and how K-Pop and K-Wave have brought more attention to that community, as well as considering South Asian and Southeast Asian communities in the greater Vancouver area. We may also make field trips to pertinent sites related to these Asian Canadian communities. In case the class is limited to online, we will explore these sites virtually, including by exploring various virtual offerings provided by these communities.

11/18/2020

The deadline to apply has been extended to December 11!

11/17/2020

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