Zulfikar Hirji is an associate professor at York University and co-author of Islam: An Illustrated Journey. A number of years ago, my son came home from school excited to tell me that he was studying the medieval era. “That’s great,” I said. “Where?” Looking confused, he turned to me and said, “You know, medieval times, […]
Mining Memory is a visual meditation on the journeys, both actual and metaphorical, of 100 men who departed the Island of St Helena bound for employment in Concordia, Namaqualand, in the Northern Cape in 1907. It gathers the memory of these men, through conversations with their descendants as it also dwells on the remains of copper […]
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. She is the author and editor of numerous books including Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002, 2010) and Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (2013). Her most […]
Diverse traditions prevented inroads of Wahabism: experts The puritanical Islamic doctrine of Wahhabism was incapable of taking roots in India because of diverse traditions in the Muslim community influenced by the country’s composite culture, experts on Muslim culture said on Sunday. The panel of experts analysed multiple interpretative traditions among Muslims in India and elsewhere […]
York University professor Daniel Yon’s most recent film ‘Mining Memory’ will be screened at the Diaspora Film Festival on Saturday, November 3rd. The film is the third in what has become a trilogy. The titles of the previous two films are One Hundred Men and Sathima’s Windsong. These works bring together Professor Yon’s scholarly interests […]
Congratulations to the winner of The Louise Biely Yolles Scholarship which has been awarded to Dorde Radosavljevic.
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The Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies invites applications for a tenure-track professorial-stream appointment in Indigenous Futures at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, to commence July 1, 2019. We are seeking a candidate whose research is grounded in decolonial methodologies, including a focus on issues such as resurgence, refusal, […]
Undocumented in Trump’s America We are honoured to announce that Dr. Denise Brannan from Georgetown University will be joining us to give a talk titled, “Undocumented in Trump’s America” on Tuesday, September 25th 2018, from 3:00pm-5:00pm in 305 Founders College. Dr. Brennan has conducted research with the first survivors of human trafficking to the United […]
ANTH 3380 Course Description (PDF) The focus of this course is populism, a concept that has generated a great deal of discussion and debate in media, academic circles and in everyday conversation. It has been used to describe authoritarian populist leaders including Trump in the U.S., Erdogan in Turkey, and radical right wing political parties […]