The Learning Curve: Ryan James on Lecturing through YouTube

From YouTube-hosted lectures to gamifying the classroom, The Learning Curve is a series showcasing how course instructors in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies are embracing the online learning environment with creative approaches to teaching remotely. In our latest instalment, Ryan James, a contract faculty member teaching in the Department of Anthropology and […]

Prof. Ken Little 2020 On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize

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John L . Jackson, Jr. - Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture 2020

Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture 2020 What a Difference Filmmaking MakesAutoethnography, Multimodalityand the Future of Scholarship John L . Jackson, Jr. Richard Perry University ProfessorWalter H. Annenberg DeanAnnenberg School for CommunicationUniversity of Pennsylvania Using my own journey as an ethnographic filmmaker to help ground its claims, this talk seeks to articulate the epistemological and ethical […]

New Book by Prof. Natasha Myers: Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le Langage des Plantes

Hustak and Myers (2020) Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le Langage des Plantes, translated by Philipe Pignarre, preface by Vinciane Despret and Maylis de Kerangal, Éditions la Découverte: Paris.

The Anthropology Department welcomes our True Visitor and Post Docs for 2020-2021

New for 2020-2021 (PDF) True Visitor: Dr. Omer Ozcan Omer Ozcan is a True Visitor Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at York University. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on temporal and spatial effects of militarization and human rights violations in Turkey. He has […]

Congratulations to our Louise Biely Yolles Scholarship winner!

Louise Biely Yolles Scholarship Winner Poster (PDF)

Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture 2020, POSTPONED

What a Difference Filmmaking Makes Autoethnography, Multimodality and the Future of Scholarship Event Poster (PDF) John L . Jackson, Jr. Richard Perry University Professor Walter H. Annenberg Dean Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Using my own journey as an ethnographic filmmaker to help ground its claims, this talk seeks to articulate the epistemological and […]

Embodied Ecological Heritage: Health, Happiness and Identity | Guest Lecture

January 22, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Room 306, Accolade West, YorkU A holistic definition of ‘health’ remains difficult to operationalize, despite decades of attempts by medical anthropologists and the World Health Organization to do so. Anthropologists routinely reject dichotomous notions – belief vs. knowledge, wellness vs. health, mental vs. physical, environment vs. […]

York Symphosium: Pedagogies of the Sea

Wednesday, November 20, 2019. 9:30am-5:00pm Founders College (Room 303) Presentations | 9:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. Othon Alexandrakis, Katherine Anderson, Tyler Ball, Arun Chaudhuri, Andrea Davis, Ken Little, Andrea Madovarski, Patrick Taylor, Sandra Widmer, Anna Zalik, Rinaldo Walcott, Yutaka Yoshida Convener: Daniel Yon Keynote Speaker | 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Pedagogies of the Sea: […]

Congratulations Dr. Guillaume Dandudand for winning the best dissertation award

Congratulations Dr. Guillaume Dandudand for winning the best dissertation award