UBC Anthropology Department
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A call for essays on the cultural politics of naming... ********* We are writing to share with you a call for essays and art for the project To Be Named: The cultural politics of naming and being named that we hope will interest you and your students. Creative and diverse approaches are encouraged that look at the political aspects of naming (gender, race, and power structures), Indigenous methodologies, decolonization and cultural revitalization (toponyms, cosmologies, and p...lace names), linguistic analysis of naming practices, scientific taxonomy practices; as well as personal narratives on how a name defines or does not define you. To Be Named is in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, the EU funded CoLing project Minority Languages, Major Opportunities. Collaborative Research, Community Engagement and Innovative Educational Tools (see https://coling.al.uw.edu.pl/about-us/), and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN) sponsored by the Open Society University Network. The deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2021. For more information see https://coling.al.uw.edu.pl/to-be-named/

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.@ubcso See more

Anthro undergrads might be interested in taking this Student Directed Seminar on "Cultural Sociology" in Term 2.

Check out UBC's new Centre for Migration Studies! https://www.arts.ubc.ca//new-ubc-centre-for-migration-st/

The Anthropology Graduate Students' Association (AGSA) and the Anthropology Undergraduate Students' Association (ASA) kicked off their jointly organized online series Anthropology Film Nights this term. At the next session, co-sponsored by The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC, Charles Menzies will show and lead discussion of the short film To Walk in Our Ancestors’ Footsteps. Watch the film here: https://vimeo.com/470287517 To Walk in Our Ancestors’ Footsteps tells the story of ...Indigenous led research in Gitxaaa Nation’s coastal alpine. The film is produced by anthropologist Charles Menzies. Jonathan Ventura who did the editing and most of the videography is a CBC video journalist based in Winnipeg. The film is 8 minutes long and our virtual event will be held at Zoom. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17 at 5pm (PST). Topic: Anthropology Film Night - Discussion Session Time: 11/17/2020 at 5pm PST Join Zoom Meeting https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61574745543

Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales A Jack Zipes Lecture and Live Q&A Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales will be composed of an online lecture followed by a live Q&A featuring Jack Zipes, a professor of literature and cultural studies who investigates social justice through the lens of folklore and fairy tales.... In discussing certain fairy tales, Zipes hopes to introduce students to the connections between fairy tales and certain periods of history, such as the early rise of fascism at the beginning of the twentieth century. https://miscellaneousproductions.ca/prod/pandemic-projects/

Join Language Sciences for our online Movie Matinée of Arrival followed by a Q&A with consultant linguists Drs. Jessica Coon, Morgan Sonderegger, and Lisa Travis on Thursday 26th November from 2pm (PST). RSVP: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNsC7irXdZdrvyB Participation limited to UBC students, faculty, and staff only for copyright reasons.... In Arrival, a linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after 12 spacecraft appear around the world. Join us to find out how consultant linguists developed an alien language, and what considering alien communication tells us about language on earth. The synchronized viewing at 2pm will be followed by an online Q&A at 4pm with McGill linguists and consultants on the film, Associate Professors Jessica Coon, Canada Research Chair in Syntax and Indigenous Languages, and Morgan Sonderegger, co-PI of the Montreal Computational & Quantitative Linguistics Lab, as well as Emeritus Professor Lisa Travis, whose office was used as a model for the film. Affiliate members Portage Network training coordinator Dr. Jennifer Abel and SFU Language Learning and Development Lab manager Elise McClay will host the event.

UBC Anthropology Film Night: Grizzly Man (2005) by Werner Herzog AGSA and ASA are pleased to invite you to our new co-sponsored online series of Anthropology Film Nights! This month, we are hosting a 1-hour discussion session (Thursday, October 29, 7-8pm) facilitated by Dr. Hugh Gusterson about the remarkable documentary Grizzly Man (2005). Written and directed by the acclaimed director Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man won numerous awards including one from 2005 Sundance Film Fes...tival. Synopsis: Grizzly Man is a documentary film by German director Werner Herzog that features the tragic story of grizzly bear activist Timothy Treadwell who spent thirteen summers living amongst wild grizzly bears on an Alaskan reserve. The film features Treadwell’s actual video footages documenting his adventures that are pieced together by Herzog. Film Length: 103 minutes. You may watch the film from the this link for free, at your own convenience and then join us for some great conversations on Thursday, October 29th, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm PST! If you prefer view it with subtitles, please use this link that can be accessed using your UBC CWL. Movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWA7GtDmNFU Content Warning: this film involves real descriptions of violence and death that may upset some viewers Additional Information: If anyone is intrigued by Herzog and wants to know more about him, the documentary film-maker Les Blank made his own highly acclaimed documentary, Burden of Dreams, about Herzog, when he was younger, making his film Fitzcarraldo in the Peruvian jungle. In the film, Herzog's fanaticism and recklessness is at least as disturbing as Timothy Treadwell's in Grizzly Man. If anyone is interested in watching that as a sort of appendix, it's available for free at https://vimeo.com/404541530 (optional, not required, viewing). Join Zoom Meeting: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61574745543 Meeting ID: 615 7474 5543 Passcode: 962620

What do ethnologists do? Check out SIEF's series "Ethnological Matterings," in which contemporary ethnologists share their professional experiences and ideas in short videos. https://www.siefhome.org/videos/EthnologicalMatterings

Of interest to some of our members: The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series Presents: Dr. Davina Bhandar, Dr. Roland Sintos Coloma,... Dr. Christine Kim, and Dr. Henry Yu Public Panel: "Still "Too Asian" 10 years later? A retrospective panel on anti-Asian racism and the university" http://secure.campaigner.com///cgex-2bm5qo--s6zce-7asr96o5

Hey Anthros! The new issue of our undergraduate student journal, The Ethnograph, is now available for your reading pleasure! Check it out! Kudos to editor Meg Soderlund and all the students who contributed articles to this issue! https://open.library.ubc.ca//undergr/52966/items/1.0394798

This may be of interest to some of our readers. We are excited to invite you to a special online film screening and awards ceremony next week hosted by the Community-UBC Refugee and Migration Working Group. Earlier this summer, the Working Group organized the Storytelling for Change Film Campaign, an initiative that UBC Migration was proud to support. After careful deliberation and many months of hard work, the Working Group is hosting an online screening of the films and awa...rds ceremony that will also include presentations from the filmmakers and mentors involved. Please join us on Tuesday, October 27 from 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT. Zoom information is below. Join Zoom Meeting at: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62724883404 Meeting ID: 627 2488 3404 Passcode: 924087

Reminder: Anthropology Colloquium tomorrow, Thursday, October 22!

Of interest to some of our followers: Religion for Lunch: Materializing Ancient Religion with Matthew McCarty Interdisciplinary Program Mon 10/19/2020 3:37 PMInterdisciplinary Program... Please join us for a new series called, Religion for Lunch, sponsored by the Program in the Study of Religion. The first session will be this Wednesday, October 21, from 12 to 1pm, hosted by Matthew McCarty, Assistant Professor of Roman archaeology in CNERS. Please distribute this information to your students, and anyone else who might be interested. Join Zoom Meeting: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64378640300 Meeting ID: 643 7864 0300 Passcode: 266424

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Thinking While Black Join National Book award-winning authors Jesmyn Ward and Ibram X. Kendi for three virtual events as part of the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series on Thinking While Black, hosted by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. About the series: Blackness as a form, concept and experience, has fundamentally shaped American iconographies, language, media, and cultural productions. This series invites us to consider Bla...ckness as both a culture and a mode of thinking. This series will meditate on the structures of race in North America and will spotlight the seemingly disconnected forms of racial violence that hide in plain sight. How, despite shifts in rhetoric and political policy, have so many forms of racial violence persisted? How, we ask, can we rethink ourselves by understanding our relations to blackness? This series was designed by a committee of UBC scholars. The Phil Lind Initiative’s mandate is to invite prominent U.S. scholars, writers, and intellectuals to UBC to share ideas with students, faculty, and the wider community on some of the most urgent issues of our time. For tickets, please see: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-phil-lind-initiative-presen Webinar details will be provided upon registration. Learn more about the Thinking While Black series: https://lindinitiative.ubc.ca/series/thinking-while-black/

The UBC Arts Amplifier is a pilot professional development initiative for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the UBC Faculty of Arts, and part of the UBC Arts Co-operative Education Program. We support students and postdocs in imagining, designing, and funding their own collaborative, community-based work or artistic experiences. The Arts Amplifier welcomes, respects, and includes people with multiple and diverse backgrounds and identities, and seeks partnerships w...ith workplaces that empower all members of the community. Thursday November 5, noon to 1pm PST RSVP: https://amplifier.arts.ubc.ca//launch-party-panel-discuss/ Launch Party, UBC Arts Amplifier + Panel Conversation: Career Development and Public Engagement for MAs, PhDs, and Postdocs in the Social Sciences & Humanities Moderator: Danielle Barkley, PhD Educator, Career & Professional Development (Graduate Students), UBC Centre for Student Involvement & Careers Speakers: Éric Bastien Director, Research Partnerships Portfolio, SSHRC Loleen Berdahl, PhD Professor, Political Studies and Executive Director, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan; author of Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD Katina Rogers, PhD Co-Director, The Futures Initiative at The Graduate Center, City University of New York; author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom Naben Ruthnum, MA Author, Curry: Eating, Reading & Race; as Nathan Ripley, Your Life is Mine and Find You in the Dark Jaspreet Sandhu, MA Loyalty and Engagement Leader, Toronto International Film Festival Closing Remarks: Paul Yachnin, PhD Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University; Director, TRaCE McGill Special guests: Allison Brennan, PhD Director, Business Development, Vancouver, Mitacs Vidya Crawley CEO & Lead Educator, Groundswell Miriam Esquitín, MA Director of Vancouver Program & General Manager of CityStudio Vancouver Eva Reddington, MBA Senior Advisor, Program Partnerships and Skills Development, Toronto, Mitacs Brian Train Education Officer, Post Secondary Education Division, BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills, and Training

Read the latest issue of the Department of Anthropology's monthly newsletter here! https://anth.sites.olt.ubc.ca//Issue-No.-2-Vol-15-Septembe

The UBC Department of Anthropology is pleased to present the 2020 - 2021 Anthropology Colloquia When: Thursday, October 22, 2020 Time: 12:30-2:00 PM... Join us virtually, click here: Meeting ID: 661 7763 4057 | Passcode: 407795

The documents lay hidden in a simple chair for 70 years. Their discovery led to a gripping investigation into the life of an S.S. officer. The SFU Department of History invites you to a special public history class on October 23rd at 10AM. Join moderator Roxanne Panchasi and the SFU History Honours Cohort for a special class with guest Daniel Lee, Senior Lecturer in Modern French History at Queen Mary University of London and author of the real-life historical mystery The S....S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi (Hachette Books, 2020). A Conversation with Daniel Lee 10:00AM | Friday, 23 October 2020 | Online via Zoom This event is free and open to the Public be sure to register to receive the webinar link: https://daniel-lee.eventbrite.ca A link to the Zoom webinar will be distributed by email to all registered attendees at 4PM on October 22nd.

This year The Anthropology Undergraduate Students’ Association will be running a series of online writing workshops to target the needs and questions that students have about academic writing within the four fields of Anthropology! The first workshop of this series will be facilitated by Dr. Magliocco on October 28th at 5:30pm-7:00pm PST. ASA Writing Workshop: "Writing from the Heart: Embodied and Reflexive Writing with Dr. Sabina Magliocco Ever wonder what makes writing v...ivid, immediate, and compelling? Often, it’s embodied writing: writing that draws from all five senses to communicate information to the reader. In this workshop, participants will learn to make their writing more powerful and informative by using embodied writing techniques. We will work on several exercises to practice incorporating information from the senses into our writing. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4467764239 Meeting ID: 446 776 4239 Passcode: asawws