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Tales and Lessons from Userx
2026-03-06 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | PAS - room 2030 Room 2030 Waterloo ON Canada
Join us for _Tales and Lessons from User Experience_, a talk by Velian
Pandeliev, Coordinator of the User Experience Design (UXD)
concentration in the Master of Information program at the University
of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Drawing on his background in
cognition & computation and human–computer interaction, Velian will
share insights on ethical design, accessibility, and what it means to
understand and represent human experiences in technology.

Silver Medal Lecture: Dr. Amy Scott
2026-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 | EV3 - Environment 3, room 4412 200 University Avenue West Room 1102 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join Dr. Amy Scott, Associate Professor at Trent University in the
Departments of Anthropology and Forensic Science, for her talk on
"Turning a rescue excavation of an 18th century cemetery into a unique
visitor experience at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic
Site of Canada"

Film Screening and discussion: “Partition”
2026-01-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Balsillie School of International Affairs 67 Erb Street West Room 1-42 Waterloo ON Canada
Join us for a film screening of _Partition_ by Diana Allan, followed
by a roundtable discussion with Ilana Feldman, Nazli Akhtari, Jasmin
Habib, and Diana Allan, and then a reception.

Graduate Forum 2025
2025-11-07 10:00 - 14:00 | HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue West 1106 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join us for the Annual Grad Forum where our Public Issues Anthropology
MA students present their research.

Brown Bag Series Talk - Bioarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches to Adolescence: A Case Study from 19th to 20th Century England
2025-10-31 11:00 - 13:00 | PAS - Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology 200 University Avenue West PAS 2030 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join us for our next Brown Bag Series talk by Dana Thacher entitled
Bioarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches to Adolescence: A Case
Study from 19th to 20th Century England

Anthropology Graduate School Workshop
2025-10-27 11:30 - 13:00 | PAS - Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology 200 University Avenue West PAS 2030 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join us for an informative discussion on the process of applying to
our anthropology program.

Brown Bag Series Talk - The Landscape of Llama Husbandry in the Andes before the Arrival of Europeans
2025-11-21 11:00 - 13:00 | PAS - Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology 200 University Avenue West PAS 2030 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join us for our next Brown Bag Series talk by Paul Szpak entitled The
Landscape of Llama Husbandry in the Andes before the Arrival of
Europeans. Please note that the talk by Professor Paul Szpak, Trent
University, originally scheduled for Friday November 21 is cancelled.
Please wait until further notice for a new date.

2025 Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture: Dr. Darcie DeAngelo
2025-09-19 16:00 - 17:30 | HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities, Room 1106 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
What happens when we attend ethnographically to the pests at our
feet—like the urban rats we share our lives with? Anthropologist,
writer, and filmmaker Darcie DeAngelo asks, "What kind of animal are
we?" and explores rodent-human relationships as a pest entourage.

Brown Bag Series Talk - Identifying and Uncovering Ontario’s Unmarked Graves: Cemetery Work as a Consultant Archaeologist
2025-03-21 13:00 - 14:30 | PAS - Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology 200 University Avenue West PAS 2030 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join us for our next Brown Bag Series talk by Dr. Katherine Bishop
entitled _ Identifying and Uncovering Ontario’s Unmarked Graves:
Cemetery Work as a Consultant Archaeologist_

Brown Bag Series Talk - Crafting Arabic: Language Ideologies and Imagined Futures among AI Model Makers in Amman
2025-03-14 13:00 - 14:30 | ML - Modern Languages 200 University Avenue West ML 109 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Join us for our next Brown Bag Series talk by Tarik Adely entitled
_Crafting Arabic: Language Ideologies and Imagined Futures among AI
Model Makers in Amman_
