Events

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. 

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.

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"

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.

This joint talk, hosted at the Basillie School, focuses on the diplomatic dispute between Spain and Morocco over the pending decolonization of Western Sahara, focusing on the summer of 2019 and the sudden arrival of close to 70.000 people to the shores of Ceuta. 

Vivian Solana is an Associate Professor at Carleton University's Department of Sociology & Anthropology in Ottawa, Canada. Her work focuses on ethnographic research in Sahrawi refugee camps, particularly on forms of female political labour. 

Join us for the Annual Grad Forum where our Public Issues Anthropology MA students present their research. 

Please join us for the Anthropology brown bag lunch series as we welcome Dr. Yunus D. Telliel's talk titled "What language Does A.I. Speak? Expressive A.I. and Anthropology of Machine Language"

This talk is offered jointly by Anthropology UW and the Balsillies School of International Affairs (BSIA). Together, we welcome Basit Kareem Iqbal, who will speak to us about their book, The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution.