New for 2020-2021 (PDF) True Visitor: Dr. Omer Ozcan Omer Ozcan is a True Visitor Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at York University. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on temporal and spatial effects of militarization and human rights violations in Turkey. He has […]
Louise Biely Yolles Scholarship Winner Poster (PDF)
What a Difference Filmmaking Makes Autoethnography, Multimodality and the Future of Scholarship Event Poster (PDF) John L . Jackson, Jr. Richard Perry University Professor Walter H. Annenberg Dean Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Using my own journey as an ethnographic filmmaker to help ground its claims, this talk seeks to articulate the epistemological and […]
January 22, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Room 306, Accolade West, YorkU A holistic definition of ‘health’ remains difficult to operationalize, despite decades of attempts by medical anthropologists and the World Health Organization to do so. Anthropologists routinely reject dichotomous notions – belief vs. knowledge, wellness vs. health, mental vs. physical, environment vs. […]
Wednesday, November 20, 2019. 9:30am-5:00pm Founders College (Room 303) Presentations | 9:30 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. Othon Alexandrakis, Katherine Anderson, Tyler Ball, Arun Chaudhuri, Andrea Davis, Ken Little, Andrea Madovarski, Patrick Taylor, Sandra Widmer, Anna Zalik, Rinaldo Walcott, Yutaka Yoshida Convener: Daniel Yon Keynote Speaker | 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pedagogies of the Sea: […]
Congratulations Dr. Guillaume Dandudand for winning the best dissertation award
Islam is a faith that is practised today by over a billion people whose traditions and civilisations are rich and diverse. So how do we study Islam and Muslims? And what do Muslims have to say about their own traditions and life-worlds? This 6-credit seminar course introduces students to the Islamic tradition, past and present. […]
Masters Degree Jordan Hodgins Lesley Vesley Doctoral Degree Guillaume Dandurand Nicole McFadyen
Dr. Marilyn Silverman: April 30, 1945 – June 18, 2019 Our former colleague, Marilyn Silverman, passed away yesterday, Tuesday 18th June 2019, after a long, arduous, and courageous struggle with cancer. She was a longstanding member of the Department of Anthropology, fundamental in shaping it to its present position as one of the pre-eminent departments […]
ANTH 4130 The Professional Anthropologist Work-Study Placement Info Session on May 7, 2019 10 AM-12 PM at Vari Hall 2054 contact chranth@yorku.ca Poster (PDF)