Events

To start the term off right, we would like to invite you to our Meet the Profs event taking place Thursday, September 22nd from 4:30-6:00pm in the upstairs room at the Grad House.

Join us for an evening of introductions, catching up, and community building for Undergraduate students, Graduate students and Professors. 

Join us for this year's Sally Weaver Award presentation and guest lecture! 

Guest speaker, Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, BA in Anthropology (Florida State University) with an MA and PhD in Anthropology (Indiana University) will be presenting a lecture titled: Injury, Disease, and Death in Early Byzantine Greece: The Story from Chryssi Island

All are welcome! 

Join us for the 2023 Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture, presented by Amira Mittermaier, Professor of Religion and Anthropology from the University of Toronto.

In Amedeka, Southeastern Ghana, local tastes and their related performances are conceptualized as “nkudzedze” – ‘pleasing to the eyes.’ This talk explores how the Amedeka conceptualization of taste directed daily life, the production and consumption of trade goods and serves as a radical act to decentralize research methodologies from the Eurowestern gaze and colonial epistemologies that continue to ‘otherize’ local and Indigenous communities.

Please join us for the Brown Bag Guest lecture with Professor Matthew V. Emery from Binghamton University, NY.

Please join us for the 2024 Silver Medal Award Guest Lecture by Professor Edward Swenson, Director of Archeology at the University of Toronto.

The Balsillie School of International Affairs presents a talk on displaced Syrians in Lebanon by postdoctoral researcher Veronica Ferreri.

The Departments of Anthropology and Sociology & Legal Studies present a lecture by postdoctoral fellow and visiting researcher Veronica Ferreri. 

In 338 BCE Philip of Macedon and his teen-aged son Alexander defeated the allied Greek forces led by the Athenians and Thebans. Recent rediscovery of records from the 19th century excavations site resulted in a new multinational project to analyze the battle from multiple perspectives, examining previously unstudied materials. This lecture presents the results of these new analyses, focusing primarily on the skeletons of Theban soldiers from the Lion Monument mass grave at Chaironeia and the cremated remains of the Macedonians buried under a mound on the battlefield.

Join Ashley Piskor, a PhD student from Western University, for a talk on "Archaeologists in Support of Inuvialuit Cultural Heritage Engagement, Self-determination and Sovereignty."