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May 3, 2018

Indigenous/Science Seminar Series

The first Indigenous/Science Research Cluster Seminar willl take place on Thursday May 10 at 1:00 pm in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) Room 214a (next to the MOA Cafe).

April 20, 2018

Meetings of the Partnership, Reflections, and Materials Analysis Subgroups

Each of our 3 sub-cluster groups (Partnership, Reflections, and Materials Analysis) held meetings in March and April. Summaries of these meetings and their outcomes can be found under the 'Meeting Summaries' tab.

April 3, 2018

Indigenous support for the March for Science

Indigenous scientists, agency professionals, tribal professionals, educators, traditional practitioners, family, youth, elders and allies from Indigenous communities and homelands all over the living Earth endorse and support the April 14 March for Science. They say, "Let us remember that long...

April 3, 2018

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

On April 9, 2018, the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC was opened to the public in a ceremony that included a statement of apology, delivered by President Santa J. Ono, to Indian residential school survivors and, more generally, to Indigenous people, for the university’s...

March 12, 2018

Friends, Research, and Misunderstandings

"Anthropological research is built upon friend-like relationships. This is our strength and our weakness." In this blog post on "Anthropology @ UBC", Charles Menzies refelcts on how research, especially anthropological work, is founded on personal relationships. These afford us extraordinary...