Prof. Othon Alexandrakis’ new edited collection “Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice” has just been published by Indiana University Press. What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, […]
Prof. Wenona Giles has co-authored (with Jennifer Hynde, Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies) a new book entitled “Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge” to appear in Oct. 2016. A book launch will be announced shortly in the Centre for Refugee Studies. This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ […]
Prof. Danny Hoffman, an anthropologist at the University of Washington will be presenting a paper at the Tubman Institute on 13 Oct. 2016 from 2:30-4:00. “Monrovia Modern: Urban Forms and the Political Imagination in West Africa” is a paper that bridges visual ethnography, African Studies, and urban studies in an exploration of the city of […]
Prof. David A.B. Murray has won a major international award for his new book. The American Anthropological Association’s Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) announced that Prof. Murray has been awarded the 2016 Ruth Benedict Book Prize in the category “Outstanding Monograph” for Real Queer (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015). The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented each year at the American […]
Professor Natasha Myers, author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke, 2015) is this year’s winner of the Robert K. Merton Award from the American Sociological Association section on Science, Knowledge and Technology. Congratulations!
How do sexuality and language contribute toward the construction and maintenance of varying scales of borders? How do sexuality and language figure in border crossings across time, space, embodied differences, and culture? The contributors to this volume, all anthropologists, demonstrate how anthropological theories, concepts and methods uniquely address the operations of sexuality and language in […]
Congratulations to Dr. Lynda Mannik, course instructor in the Department of Anthropology, on the publication of her new edited volume, “Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival” (Berghahn Press)! More information and/or to order a copy
The Department of Anthropology’s professor Zulfikar Hirji and Fredric Roberts (The Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops) are curating a photography exhibition, “Our Stories, Our Images, Our Futures”, at the Ismaili Centre Toronto as an Open Exhibition in the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. For more details view: YFile News
Want to find out more about Anthropology? Learn more about the different degree options in Anthropology at York University? Talk to faculty in the Anthropology Department? Visit us at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Open House on Saturday May 7, 2016 from 10:00 am til 2:00 pm in the Vari Hall Rotunda […]
The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE) will host “The Imaginative Ethnography Symposium: Ethnography, Imagination & Indigenous Settler Relations”, an event featuring a series of guest speakers and workshops for graduate students. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and curated by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Faculty Member in the Graduate Program in Anthropology, Laura Levin […]