Message from the Department Co-Heads

News

Volume 10, Issue 01

August 2015

Anthropology

We would like to welcome Dr. Sara Shneiderman, who joined our department in January and who begins

teaching this fall and Dr. Daisy Rosenblum, who joined our department in January and who will begin

teaching in term two. We welcome back Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann, Dr. Nicola Levell, and Dr. Leslie

Robertson who are returning to teaching this fall. Finally we would like to congratulate Dr. Gaston

Gordillo, who is the Acting Director of the Peter Wall Institute this year.

We are planning many events for the coming year including a number of talks by well-known

anthropologists. In September French archaeologist Jean-Michel Geneste the author of Cave of Forgotten

Dreams will be speaking in the department. Also speaking in September will be linguist and

anthropologist Luisa Maffi, the Director of the International NGO Terralingua. In early October Tim

Ingold, the author of Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, Being Alive: Essays on

Movement, Knowledge and Description, and The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood,

Dwelling and Skill will be here for a graduate student workshop and to present the Hawthorn Lecture.

This is our last year as Co-Heads and we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for your

support. The Dean’s office will be forming a search committee for the new Head later this term. Best

wishes for an enjoyable and productive year!

Welcome back to students, faculty and

staff. Many thanks to all of you for

spreading the word about the great

ANTH and ARCL courses offered by

our department. Positive student

responses have led to many of our

courses having high enrolments, and a

large number of courses, including

our new course, Eating Culture, ANTH

210, (taught by Dr. John Barker) are

full to capacity. This year’s Chair of

the Anthropology Undergraduate

Studies Committee is Dr. Charles

Menzies. Dr. Mike Blake is continuing

for a second year as Chair of the

Anthropology Graduate Studies

Committee.

Dr. Susan Rowley Department Co-Head

Dr. Patrick Moore Department Co-Head

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Welcome 2015-2016 Academic Year Welcome back Faculty Members, Sessionals, Post Docs, Associates, Visiting Professors and Staff. Welcome to our incoming Graduate and Undergraduate Students. Welcome back to our Graduate and Undergraduate Students. Please welcome Jessica Lam, our new Undergraduate Student Association (ASA) President for 2015 - 2016. Please welcome Joseph Hepburn, our new Graduate Student Association (AGSA) Presidents for 2015 - 2016.

Department Events

8th September, Tuesday Departmental Student orientations and Imagine UBC Day

9:30-11AM, Anso 2107 Departmental Orientation for New Graduate Students (Mandatory Attendance) 11:00-1:00 PM, Anso 134 Department Orientation Session for TAs & Instructors (Mandatory Attendance) 11:30-12:30 PM, Anso 207 Imagine UBC Day: Undergraduate Anthropology Fair 1:00-2:30 PM, ANSO Community Garden/Courtyard Anth BBQ Lunch 2:30 PM, Anso lounge Grad to Grad Informal Session (by AGSA President, Joe Hepburn)

5:00 PM, Wolf and Hound, 3617 West Broadway (Between Dunbar & Alma) click this for directions Post-orientation “Pub Meet and Greet”

Message from the Department Co-Heads 1

Welcome 2015-2016 Academic Year 2

Department Events 2

Announcements 3

Committee Assignments 4

Congratulations 5

Graduate Program Competition Announcements 6

Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association 7

Presentations 7

Publications 8

I N T H I S I S S U E :

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Announcements

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COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Graduate Studies (AGSC)

Chair: Mike Blake Members: Vinay Kamat, Zhichun Jing, Leslie Robertson (T1)

Undergraduate Studies

Chair: Charles Menzies Members: David Pokotylo, Nicky Levell, Sara Shneiderman

Website and Communication Andrew Martindale, John Barker (T1), Mark Turin

Equity and Inclusion Alexia Bloch, Millie Creighton

Museum Liaison Carol Mayer, Anthony Shelton, Daisy Rosenblum

Special Events Shaylih Muehlmann, Jennifer Kramer, Leslie Robertson (T2)

Heads Advisory and Peer Teaching

Bill McKellin, Bruce Miller (T2)

Safety

LOA Director Darlene Weston

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Congratulations Congratulations to the following PhD students receiving the UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship. Ezra Greene Fraser GermAnn Mangyang Wu Mascha Gugganig Wenner-Gren Visual Essay Award on Capacity Building, May 2015: When Dust comes to Matter: The Scaffolding of Academia. https://hopeandinsufficiency.wordpress.com/visual-essay-competition/mascha-gugganig/ Congratulations to Danielle Thrasher for receiving the 2015-16 Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships Bridge award. Congratulations to Jordan Handley for having a new born baby boy! His name is Bradley Richard Doyle, born August 15, 2015a t 7:44 pm at 5.10lbs and 17 inches. He's an amazing baby, happy and healthy.

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Graduate Program: Competition Announcements SSHRC Graduate Scholarships (PhD level) & Affiliated Scholarships (PhD level)

I. SSHRC Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGSD)

All applicants MUST use the web-based application system to apply. Applicants must then print off, sign, and submit to the Anth Graduate Office the completed final version of the application, including transcripts and other attachments. The deadline by which applications for Doctoral-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) September 28th Monday, before 3 pm The deadline by which applications for Master's-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) TBA (most likely be December 1st, Monday) For more details, please check: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/sshrc-graduate-scholarships SSHRC FAQ/Help with Online Forms: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/forms-formulaires/help_forms-aide_formulaires-eng.aspx

II. UBC Doctoral AFFILIATED FELLOWSHIPS

All students regardless of citizenship are eligible to apply. Canadian citizens and permanent residents are required to apply for graduate scholarship funding from CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC, if they are eligible to do so.

Applicants submit their application materials to the Anth Graduate Office. Please note that students who submit a Tri-Agency (CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC) award application to the Anth Graduate Office are also automatically considered for Affiliated Fellowship funding, and do not need to submit a separate Affiliated Fellowship application.

The deadline by which applications for Doctoral-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) September 28th, Monday, before 3 pm

For more details, please check: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships

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Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association

Contact with the conference organizers allowed for successful efforts to participate in the conference remotely. The Research Network for Design is a collaboration between The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Aarhus University, and the University of Southern Denmark, funded for two years by the Danish Research Council. For more information: https://kadk.dk/co-design/research-network-design-anthropology/conference-papers-and-poster-design-anthropological

Presentations Chris Arnett 2015 They Dream It and Write It: Rock Art of the Salish. Invited participant. Kwikwetlem Colloquium: A Celebration of Coast Salish History, Culture and Identity.. Douglas College, Kwikwetlem/Coquitlam, July 23. Bruce Granville Miller 2015 Invited Keynote: “What’s Changed in the Coast Salish World Over Forty Years? One Person’s View,” All Nations Festival, Kwikwetlem: A Celebration of Coast Salish History, Culture, and Identity, Coquitlam, July 23.

On Thursday, August 13th, former ASA Co-President and recent alumna Nicole Aleong hosted a discussion at AnSo with undergraduate anthropology students on the topic of design anthropology. Design anthropology is an emergent trandisciplinary field between anthropology and design. The discussion was organized in conjunction with the conference titled "Design Anthropological Futures" being held in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 13th-14th by the Research Network for Design.

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Publications

Zawadski, Krista 2014 Opening Doors for Inuit Material Culture. Arctic Studies Center Newsletter, Smithsonian Institution, June: 74-5. Chris Arnett 2015 Review of The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay.In Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 105(3):142-143 Mascha Gugganig 2015 The Ethics of Patenting and Genetically Engineering the Relative Hāloa. Special Issue, "Nature & Ethics," Ethnos http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2015.1028564 Jennifer Kramer 2015 “Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the UBC Museum of Anthropology” in Museum Transformations: Art, Culture, History (Annie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips, eds.) Volume 4 of The International Handbooks of Museum Studies. Wiley-Blackwell Press. 489-510.

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