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 […]
ANTH2130 Course Description (PDF) This course uses film, video, visual art, photography and new media to explores race, ethnicity, nationality, globalization, power, authority, politics, religion, gender, class, and sexuality. Drawing upon images produced by anthropologists, journalists, filmmakers, photographers and artists, the course asks questions about how images and visual technologies that can look deep into […]
Juan Pablo Pinto (MA student, Anthropology) has created an online exhibit about popular education in Nicaragua as part of an initiative by the Office of the Vice Provost Academic to develop classroom resources using the collections held by York research centres. The CERLAC component of this project is entitled “Popular Education in Revolutionary Times: Reflecting […]
York University anthropology professors organized a workshop recently to examine how Indigenous knowledge transforms research. The Ethics in Indigenous Research Workshop, run by Professors Christianne Stephens and Naomi Adelson, was hosted at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto. It brought together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, faculty, and undergraduate and graduate students to discuss ethics and […]
Please Note: The 2018 Summer Ethnographic Institute has been cancelled due to the ongoing labour disruption. The Summer Ethnographic Institute (SEI) offers resources, mentorship and training in ethnographic theory and method to undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Anthropology, to York University faculty, and to researchers, scholars and members of the community beyond […]
York University’s Anthropology Program was ranked 4th in Canada in the 2017 QS World University Rankings. The department improved on its rank of 8th last year. The same organization ranked the program in the top 100 internationally. With 15 faculty members and eight affiliates, we are one of the largest socio-cultural Anthropology departments in Canada. The […]
The Department of Anthropology at York University declares that all lectures, seminars and tutorials are suspended for the duration of the CUPE 3903 strike. We are unanimously supportive of our Unit 1 and Unit 2 colleagues and recognize the contributions they make to all of the courses that we teach. In responding to this strike, […]
The Anthropology Annual General Lecture with Ann Stoler scheduled for 8 March has been cancelled due to the labour disruption. The lecture will be rescheduled at the first opportunity.
‘Bending the Arc’, March 15, 2018, 4:00 pm – 6:15 pm , Senate Chamber, 9th floor, N Ross Bending the Arc is a powerful documentary about the extraordinary team of doctors and activists including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl, whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into […]
Please join us for the next Public Anthropology Collaboratory meeting on Tuesday February 13th from 10AM-12PM at York University, HNE 230, (Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies Building, see http://maps.info.yorku.ca/keele-campus/), focusing on the theme of Pedagogy and Public Anthropology, facilitated by Karl Schmid. In a sprit of sharing and brainstorming, the upcoming meeting of the Public Anthropology Collaboratory […]