The Ethics in Indigenous Research Workshop will be held on Friday, March 16, 2018 at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, Spadina Ave (note change of venue) from 8:30am – 5:30pm. Registration is now closed. We welcome Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, faculty, senior undergraduate, and graduate students to engage in a day of meaningful conversations about […]
The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE) is pleased to announce “The Imaginative Ethnography Symposium: Imagining Canada’s Futures with Romani Refugees & Migrants” November 9-10, 2017, York University, Toronto, Ontario, curated by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston The symposium will include two keynote addresses, a roundtable panel, and a workshop for graduate students. Keynote Speakers: Professor Ian F. Hancock is an […]
Professors Emeriti Penny Van Esterik and Judith Nagata will be honoured at the 33rd Biennial Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) conference running 26 to 28 October 2017 at York University. Penny and Judith are active and long-standing members of the CCSEAS and stalwarts of Southeast Asian studies in Canada. The panels honouring Nagata and Van […]
Trying the Way: Ethnographic Glimpses of York University Book by Prof. Penny van Esterik and Dr Laurie Baker is now available for free download. In the public media, universities are often targets of anti-intellectual rants; but criticism of universities often comes from people who are not familiar with the complexity of university cultures. They felt that as anthropologists they should […]
Call for Papers & Peer Reviewers Contingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology Volume 4 Issue 1 Deadline for submissions: Friday, October 13th, 2017 Contingent Horizons is York University’s peer-reviewed student journal of anthropology. We aim to showcase scholarly and creative works of academic excellence by undergraduate and graduate students. We invite prospective contributors […]
Prof. Margaret Critchlow has been awarded the prestigious Weaver-Tremblay Award by the Canadian Anthropological Association. The Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology is named after two of Canada’s most-renowned applied anthropologists and has been awarded since 1994. Prof. Critchlow has done extensive research in Vanuatu, including nine fieldwork trips studying customary land tenure, colonial history, and […]
Course Director Arne Steinforth has just co-edited a volume entitled “Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry” (with Helene Basu and Roland Littlewood, Lit 2017). It is the first volume in their new book series “Culture, Religion and Psychiatry”. Arne teaches the course ANTH 3280 6.0 Anthropology and Psychiatry in Global […]
Contingent Horizons, the York University anthropology student journal has just published its third issue. Congratulations to the CH editorial collective—Parinaz Adib, Janita Van Dyk, Andrea Vitopoulos, and Melanie Zhang—for their hard work on this issue. Articles in this issue include: Table of Contents Volume 3, Issue 1 (2017)ArticlesA Critique of the ‘Paleo Diet’: broader implications of a socio-cultural food practiceby Ashley […]
York Anthropologist, Danielle Eliott, in the HESO program, has just co-authored a new book with Dara Culhane titled “A New Type of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies” (University of Toronto Press). Prof. Elliott is also an organizer of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography here at York. This innovative book introduces the latest in scholarship […]
Prof. Sandra Widmer is the co-editor (with Veronica Lipphardt) of a new collection titled “Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements” (Berghahn Books, 2016). Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists’ and […]