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04/13/2026

The 2025/26 Colloquium Series continues THIS WEEK on April 16 with Dr. Lennon Mhishi!

Join us in POND G @ 12:30 PM for a conversation on spaces of music and social life in relation to anthropologies of yearning and desire, and how they connect anticolonial and liberation dreams to the negotiations of Black livingness in Britain.

Light refreshments will follow the talk—come for the ideas, stay for the community.

📅 Thursday, APR 16
🕧 12:30–2:00 PM
📍POND G Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)
🔗 For more information visit the link in bio

Dr. Mhishi is an assistant professor with the UBC Department of Anthropology. Don’t miss this chance to hear his insights and engage in meaningful discussion.

03/24/2026

Join us THIS WEEK on March 26 in the POND G Office Annex Lounge for our next 3Cs event! Daniela Belén Miranda, a PhD Candidate in the UBC Department of Anthropology, will be discussing environmental harm and structural gaslighting in Santa Fe, Argentina.

📆 Thursday, MAR 26
⏰ 11:30-12:15 PM
📍 POND G Office Annex Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)

Come grab a coffee (or tea) and connect with our Anthropology faculty and student community.

No RSVP needed, just drop in!

03/05/2026

The 2025/26 Colloquium Series continues on March 19 with Dr. Takahiro Miyachi!

Join us in POND G @ 12:30 PM for a conversation on dam construction and indigenous peoples in 21st-century Americas.

Light refreshments will follow the talk—come for the ideas, stay for the community.

📅 Thursday, MAR 19
🕧 12:30–2:00 PM
📍POND G Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)
🔗 RSVP link in bio

Dr. Miyachi is a visiting professor from the University of Tokyo. Don’t miss this chance to hear his insights and engage in meaningful discussion.

03/04/2026

Join us on March 5 in the POND G Office Annex Lounge for our next 3Cs event! Dr. Mark Haden, an Adjunct Professor with the UBC Department of Anthropology and the UBC School of Population and Public Health, will be discussing a public health analysis of naturalistic use of psychedelics.

📆 Thursday, MAR 5
⏰ 11:30-12:15 PM
📍 POND G Office Annex Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)

Come grab a coffee (or tea) and connect with our Anthropology faculty and student community.

No RSVP needed, just drop in!

02/12/2026

Join us on February 26th in the POND G Office Annex Lounge for our next 3Cs event! Megan Harris, a PhD Candidate with the UBC Department of Anthropology, will be discussing Chuchuwayha and other fun stories related to Interior Plateau archaeology.

📆 Thursday, FEB 26
⏰ 11:30-12:15 PM
📍 POND G Office Annex Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)

Come grab a coffee (or tea) and connect with our Anthropology faculty and student community.

No RSVP needed, just drop in!

02/10/2026

Your favourite event of the year returns: Join us for our UBC Annual Anthropology Gala—a night of food, fun and intrigue📜

Dress code: dress to solve dark academic mysteries, roam through secret libraries and sit under candlelight writing letters with an inkwell pen (dark academia, noir, mysterious and magic)🕵🕯️👁️🗝️

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Buy your tickets through the link in our bio, and for more information follow .asa

01/21/2026

Join us on March 14th, 2026 for Archaeology Day: Teaching and Learning in Archaeology!

This event features Musqueam's Leona Sparrow (Musqueam Liaison to UBC), Richard Campbell (Musqueam Senior Research Technician), Jon Point (Musqueam Archaeological Field Director), and Kevin Wilson (Musqueam GIS and GPR Technician) in conversation about teaching, learning, and doing archaeology.

📆: March 14, 2026
⏰: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
📍: Musqueam Cultural Centre @ 4000 Musqueam Ave., Vancouver

Register to attend or present by scanning the QR code or by clicking the link in our bio!

01/15/2026

Visiting Professor from the University of Tokyo, Dr. Takahiro Miyachi, will be speaking on January 29th in the POND G Office Annex Lounge for our 3Cs event. Dr, Miyachi will be discussing the large diversity of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) policies.

📆 Thursday, JAN 29
⏰ 11:30-12:15 PM
📍 POND G Office Annex Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)

Come grab a coffee (or tea) and connect with our Anthropology faculty and student community.

No RSVP needed, just drop in!

01/14/2026

Join TOMORROW on January 15th in the POND G Office Annex Lounge for our 3Cs event, where Younus Mustaq Ahmed will be speaking about his ethnographic insights from the International Toilet Festival in Chennai.

📆 Thursday, JAN 15
⏰ 11:30-12:15 PM
📍 POND G Office Annex Lounge (2044 Lower Mall)

Come grab a coffee (or tea) and connect with our Anthropology faculty and student community.

No RSVP needed, just drop in!

01/12/2026

It's not too late to check out this course! With the add/drop deadline fast approaching on January 16th, consider taking ANTH 475 - Racial and Sexual Politics of Im(mobility).

This course, taught by Dr. Elif Sari, examines regimes of mobility (travel, tourism, asylum, and migration) and immobility (externalization, detention, deportation, borders, camps, and checkpoints) across global contexts. The course foregrounds race, gender, s*xuality, class, citizenship, and colonial histories to analyze racialized and s*xualized experiences of (im)mobility as sites of control and governance, resistance and negotiation, and emergence and becoming. Combining anthropology, human geography, q***r migration studies, and carcerality studies with activist art and multimedia, the course centers racialized and s*xualized communities’ border crossings, political economy of s*x travel and tourism, carceral forms of mobility control, and lived experiences of waiting, stuckness and forced movement.

More information is available on our website: (anth.ubc.ca/courses) or on Workday Student.

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Vancouver, BC
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