Issue No. 10, Vol 9, June 2015
Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 10
2015 Summer Edition News
The Degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN THIS ISSUE: Congratulations(Anthropology)
Congratulations 1 The Peter Wal l Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of our very own Dr. Gastón Gordillo as the
Director, pro tem of the Institute, effective July 1, 2015. Department 2014-15 Milestones
Awards, Recognition, Grants 2 2015 – 2016 Affiliated Fellowship Competition Presentations 6 Evan Koike
Publications 18 2015 – 2016 Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s
Events, Media 26 (CGSM) Program Emily Allan
Jessica DeChamplain
Daniel Frim
Michelle Hak Hepburn For find out more about MOA Exhibitions and Events, Marie-Elise Laforest please visit: http://moa.ubc.ca 2015 – 2016 Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Award Competition CGS Joseph Hepburn SSHRC Peter Merchant
SSHRC Jason Woolman
http://anth.ubc.ca/prospective-students/anthro-programs/new-courses -and-advanced-special-seminars-for-fall-and-winter-2015-16/
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Department of Anthropology
2014 – 2015 Milestones
Recognitions, Grants, Awards, Prizes and Scholarships
Basant Ahmed-Sayed, Anthropology Matriculated Student, who was awarded a supplemental travel grant ($500) to present at the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) meetings held at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and Chuo University in May 2015, by the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR).
Nicole Aleong (ASA co-president) Awarded the 2015 Dean's Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Faculty of Arts. This award recognizes an exceptional graduating student who has made a significant impact during their time at UBC through their passion for learning, as well as depth, impact and scope of their involvement. Nicole was also nominated for the Dean's Outstanding Leader from UBC to Beyond.
Chris Arnett 2015 – 2015 Departmental Recipient Award: Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship for Archaeology
Kamal Arora 2015 Departmental Recipient Award: Dr. Lakhbir K. Jassal Graduate Travel Awards in Arts Recipient of the Dr. Lakhbir K. Jassal Graduate Travel Award Awarded the 2014 Nehru Humanitarian Award (Centre for India and South Asia Research, UBC, and The Goel Family Charitable Foundation). Awarded the 2014 Zora Neale Hurston Award (Association for Feminist Anthropology - American Anthropological Association).
Michael Asch Associate in our Department, awarded the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada.
Catherine Cooper Awarded the Harry Hawthorn Award for the Best MA Thesis for her paper “Determining Short- term Dietary Change in the American Southwest: Seasonality Using Isotopic Analysis of Human Hair”. Nominated by: Dr. Mike Richards
Millie Creighton Anthropology Faculty, who was awarded a supplemental travel grant ($500) to present at the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) meetings held at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and Chuo University in May 2015, by the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR)
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Awarded a Humanities and Social Science (HSS) grant of $2,000 to make an international invited conference presentation in Jerusalem, Israel for the conference 'Cultural Geography of the Hallyu: Mapping the World through Korean Popular Culture,' May 13-15, 2014.
Jessica de Champlain Awarded a travel research grant ($650) through the Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Research Grants Awards. Awarded a research grant ($800) to further her research related to Korea by the Centre for Korean Research (CKR).
Cordelia Frewen and Diana Marsh Received two of the Volkswagen Foundation's 15 travel grants for young researchers to attend “Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century,” a Herrenhausen Symposium to be held in Hanover, Germany from June 21-23, 2015.
Sarah Fessenden Awarded the 2015 St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grant, Society for the Anthropology of North America
Gregory Gan Recipient for the SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Supplement (2015). Current recipient of the SSHR CGS Doctoral Fellowship. Awarded the Arts Research Graduate Award from UBC (2014). Recognized as the Liu Scholar from the Liu Institute for Global Issues (2014). Recognized as the Chair of Migration Network, Liu Institute for Global Issues (Sept 2014 to April 2015).
Gastón Gordillo Awarded the 2014 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia. Project: “Outline of a Theory of Terrain” (CDN $25,000).
Ezra Greene Awarded the 2015 TLEF Grant. Wising Up: Learning to Share Knowledge between Canada's Northern Communities and Southern Classrooms. Principal Applicant: Patricia Johnston.
Mascha Gugganig "Hawaii Cardboard" photograph was selected as the 2015 cover image for Anthropology and Environment Society Facebook page.
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer and Chuuchkamalthnii (Ron Hamilton), eds. Native Art of the Northwest Coast received the 2015 Canada Prize in the Humanities by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Native Art of the Northwest Coast received the Prince George Public Library Jeanne Clark award for best publication on Northern History
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Eric Guiry Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Project title: Domesticate animals in colonial trade networks: Stable isotopic perspectives on historical human-animal relations. ($19, 175 USD) United Kingdom Archaeological Science Meeting Poster Prize. (£100 GBP) Society for Archaeological Science Student Research Award. ($500 USD) Chacmool Association Conference Poster Prize. ($100 CAD)
Chizuru Kinjo Anthropology Undergrad Student, who was awarded a supplemental travel grant ($500) to present at the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) meetings held at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and Chuo University in May 2015, by the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR).
Evan Koike Received the St. John's College Li Pai Lin Memorial Graduate Scholarship (in the amount of $500). Awarded the N.H. Benson International Graduate Award for the 2014 Summer Session, and monetary prize of $250.
Sara V. Komarnisky Accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Alberta with a project called "Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America."
Jennifer Kramer 2014 Faculty of Arts Research Grant "Building Collaborative Research Relations in order to (Re)connect Contemporary Nuxalkmc with Nuslhiixwta (Family Treasures) in Museum Collections", $1,200 Grant PI 2015 Peter Wall Theme Development Workshop Funded: Exploring the Role of University Museums in Mobilizing Cultural Resources for Central Northwest Coast First Nations Cultural Revitalization, March 23, 2015.
Leslie Robertson and the Kwaguł Gixsam 2015 Finalist (1 of 5), François-Xavier Garneau Medal for, Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las.̱ Canadian Historical Association, (May 18). 2014 Canadian Committee on Women’s History Book Prize for, Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las̱ . Canadian Historical Association, (May 27).
Bryn Letham Awarded the Julie Cruikshank Award for Best Graduate Paper for his paper “Modelling Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Landscapes and Archaeological Potential in the Prince Rupert Harbour Using LiDAR and GIS”. Nominated by: Mike Blake
Diana Marsh Awarded a two-year Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
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Carol E. Mayer Awarded as the 2014 BC Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement for the exhibition “Paradise Lost? Contemporary Works from the Pacific”.
William McKellin Appointed Associate Chair of the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board
Jessica Metcalfe Awarded the Larry D. Agenbroad Legacy Fund for Research Grant from the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota ($900 USD).
Lindsay Moore 2015 Departmental Recipient Award: Francis Reif Scholarship
Madeline Moore 2015 Departmental Recipient Award: Michael AMES Scholarship in Museum Studies
Vishala Parmasad Awarded the Residency as a Scholar at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland in 2016.
Michael Richards Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. 2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Using isotope signatures to find the origin of unidentified human remains from forensic contexts $302,000 2015 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Multi-isotope analysis of palaeofauna sequences as indicators of past environments and climates $135,000
Katie Roth 2015 Departmental Recipient Award: Wilson Duff Memorial Scholarship
Lara Rosenoff Gauvin Awarded the B.C. Arts Council Grant - Project Assistance for Visual Artists for $6000.
Patricia Shaw Recipient of the 2014-15 Dean of Arts Award.
Sara Shneiderman PI for MITACS Globalink Research Award for the project “Visualizing Cultural Reproduction in Sikkim: A Material Cultural Approach” to supervise Anthropology undergraduate student Aadil Brar’s summer research in Gangtok, Sikkim, India. Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-PhD Fellowship for the project "Restructuring Life: Citizenship, Territory and Religiosity in Nepal's State of Transformation"
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Hampton Fund Research Grant New Faculty Award, University of British Columbia
Michael Shepard Recipient of the UBC Anthropology PhD Writing Award 2014, who will be receiving $6,000.00.
Mark Turin Appointed as a Green College Leading Scholar (2014-2016). Awarded a UBC-VPRI Knowledge Mobilization Grant (2014-2015). 2014 Arts Undergraduate Research Award (AURA) for ‘The Thangmi Wedding Ritual: Endangered Oral Literature from Nepal.’ $3,000 2015. TLEF Grant. Uncovering Indigenous Stories through Digital Tools at this “Place of Mind” $50,000. Principal Applicant. 2015. National Science Foundation (NSF# 1447886). Developing Standards for Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics. Participant. USD $98,407. Arcadia Fund. Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project. Participant and Advisor. 4-year grant totaling USD $1.25 million. InterPARES Trust, iSchool @UCB, Co-Investigator.
Rafael Wainer Recipient of the UBC Anthropology PhD Writing Award 2014, who will be receiving $6,000.00.
Megan Wong Recipient of the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Awards for 2014 - 15
Darlene Weston Awarded a UBC Hampton Grant of $24,066 for the project: Ancient identities: body modification among the Stz’uminus ancestors from the Salish Sea. The funds will be supporting research being undertaken by MA student, Colleen Parsley.
Krista Zawadski Awarded the 2015 TLEF Grant. Wising Up: Learning to Share Knowledge between Canada's Northern Communities and Southern Classrooms. Principal Applicant: Patricia Johnston.
Presentations
Basant Ahmed-Sayed 2015 Japanese Kawaii Culture (with Special Emphasis on its Popularity in Egypt and the Middle East) at the Japan Studies Association of Canada conference held in Tokyo, Japan at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, and Chuo University, May 23.
Chris Arnett and Peter Merchant 2014 Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth: Grace Islet, a Coast Salish Cemetery (Smukw'elu) and Cultural Difference. Paper presented at the 2014 BC Archaeology Forum, Nanaimo, October 18.
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Ginevra Toniello, Nyra Chalmers, Chris Picard, La'goots Spencer Greening, Chris Arnett, Helen Clifton, Cam Hill and Bruce Reece. 2014 Gitga'at Simon Fraser University Heritage and Archaeology Project 2013-2014: Learning From The Past, Looking To The Future. Poster presented at the 2014 BC Archaeology Forum, Nanaimo, October 18.
Chris Arnett 2014 Invited participant for "Indigenous Resistance and Anarchy (Fishbowl discussion)". 9th Annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair, Victoria, September 7. 2015 Grace islet: A Political and Cultural History. Invited guest speaker, Student's Anthropology Forum, Vancouver Island University, Duncan, BC, April 15 2015 Rock Art/TSeQU of the Nlaka'pamux, Presentations to Kumsheen Secondary and Lytton Elementary Schools, Lytton, BC, April 16 2015 Rock Art /TSeQU of the Nlaka'pamux. Presentations to Stein Valley School and Nlaka' pamux Nation Tribal Council Cultural Day, Lytton, BC. May 5 2014 A History of Ganges (Shiya'hwt), Salt Spring Island. Presentation to the Salt Spring Island Historical Society. October 8, Central Hall, Salt Spring Island. 2014 Maori Knowledge Systems. Presentation for College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho. October 20, Moscow. 2014 All My Relations: Salish Epistemologies (ShAktynmuh) and Practices Regarding Natural Resources. Presentation for College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, October 22, Moscow. 2014 Rock Art Archaeology in the Salishan Territories. Presentation for Department of Anthropology, Washington Sate University. October 20, Pullman. 2014 Salish Rock Painting and Demographic Revitalization. Presentation for Department of Anthropology Colloquium, Washington State University, October 21, Pullman.
Kamal Arora 2014 Affective Religious Practice and Memory among Sikh Women in New Delhi’s ‘Widow Colony.' Paper presented at "Deconstructing the Myth of Violence and Religion in South Asia and Beyond. Carleton University, October 19, 2014.
John Barker 2014 Local, Transcendent and All Point In Between: Some Reflections on the Ethnographic Study of Christianity in Melanesia. Invited paper presented to Groupe, Sociétés, Religions, Laicités, CNRS, Paris, May 16.
Kirsten Bell and Simone Dennis 2014 Beyond the 'white screen': Reflections on cigarette packets, materiality and meaning. Paper presented at the Contrabrand Tobacco workshop, London School of Economics, London, Oct 17.
Kirsten Bell, Simone Dennis, Roland Moore and Jude Robinson 2014 Entailed objects: Consuming cigarette packets. Paper presented at the An¬nual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 4.
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Kirsten Bell 2014 Discussant, 'In search of results: Interrogating evidence-based global health'. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 6.
Alexia Bloch 2015 Sovremennost', mobilnost', i blizkie otnoshenii ("Modernity, Mobility, Intimacy"). Paper presented in the seminar series "Folklore and Postfolklore" at the Center for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. May 18.
Daniel Brasil 2015. Politics of Recognition and Non-recognition in the Americas, talk given to the International Seminar Identities and Collective Mobilizations: Perspectives on American Contexts, in Havana, Cuba, April 15th.
Millie Creighton 2015 Okinawa and Okinaniwans; Discourses of Okinawan Aboriginality and Okinawans in Urban Areas of Japan Outside Okinawa and the Ryuukyuu Islands, annual Japan Studies Association of Canada meetings held this year at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. May 21. 2015 Welcome to the Tree House! The Architecture of Raymond Moriyama and His Life Comparison as an Interned Japanese Canadian with William Allister as a POW in Japan, Japan Studies Association of Canada. May 22. 2015 Organized the panel, Building Identities, Constructing Citizenships, Re-Claiming Selves; Architecture, Space and Place in the Histories and Identities of Japanese, Japanese Canadians, and Koreans after Japanese Colonialization for the 2015 the annual Japan Studies Association of Canada meetings held this year at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan in May 2015. 2014 'Korea-Japan Relations Through the Hallyu Looking Glass: Assessing the Korean Wave's Transnational Flows of Popular Culture, People as Tourists, and Political Contestations' at an International Conference on Korean Popular Transnational Culture held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, on May 15, 2014. 2014. 'Visualizing Japan's Department Stores 21st Century Shifts to Malltiplexes and Showcasing Asia.' Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings on Friday, December 5, 2014 in Washington, DC. 2014 'Continuing Influence of the Korean Wave on Japan-Korea Relations: From Japanese Tourism to Korea to Interface with Korean Sites in Japan at the invited and travel funded World Association of Hallyu (Korean Popular Culture) Studies conference held in Pusan, Korea on August 2, 2014. 2014 Cchaired the panel entitled, 'Hallyu in Asia (Hallyu means Korean Transnational Popular Culture) at the invited/funded World Association of Hallyu (Korean Popular Culture) Studies conference held in Pusan, Korea on August 2, 2014. 2015 “Affected Communities in Northern Japan Struggle for Recovery,” on Wed. March 11, 2015 on the panel 'The Triple Disaster in Japan on March 11, 2011--Four Years Later,' as part of the Special Events to Mark the 3.11 Disaster in Japan Presented by the Centre for Japanese Research, UBC on the fourth anniversary, March 11, 2015.
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2015 performed a Japanese Noh drama chant and also performed a 2015 Noh Shimai (dance) called Takasago as a duet partnered with Yasuko Okada (wife of the Consulate General of Japan to Vancouver) at the Simon Fraser Centre for the Arts on March 12, 2015. 2015 Selected to give opening remarks at a reception on March 13, 2015 held at the residence of the Consulate General of Japan in Vancouver in honour of the visit of Noh master Tsunao Yamai of the Komparu School of Noh, and the Noh performance held at the SFU Centre for the Arts. 2014 'Resilience, Renewal, and Re-storation: Japan's Department Stores and Emerging Consumer Malltiplexes (Multiplexes) in Post-Growth Urban Japan,' at the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) conference held at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, on October 18, 2014. 2014 Japanese civil Society and citizen's activism surrounding the Japanese Constitution and Article 9 as a member of an invited panelist for the Centre for Asian Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), University of Victoria inaugural seminar on Japan and the Other: Societal Change from 1945 to the Present, entitled: Japan Breaks the Peace Clause: Article 9 and Japan's Evolving Relations with the Asian Other. Nov 5, 2014. Victoria, BC
Sarah G. Fessenden 2014 Tasting Waste: Affects, Moralities, and Materialities from Dumpster to Table. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. December 6. 2015 “Solidarity not charity”: Activist anthropology with Food Not Bombs and counter domination tactics in a globalizing world. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for the Anthropology of North America. New York, NY. April 17.
Gregory Gan 2014 “The Theory of Happiness.” World Premiere. 82 minutes. Hot Docs International Film Festival, Toronto, April 26. 2014 “Phantom Couriers: Ghost in the Machine” Online release. 7 minutes. Dec. 1. [Available online: http://vimeo.com/113250604] 2014 “Beyond Borders: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Migration.” Panel organized at the Liu Institute, November. 2014 “Moving Pictures: Representing Migration in Ethnographic Film.” Presented at the panel “Beyond Borders,” Liu Institute, Nov. 4. 2013 “The World in a Suitcase: Experience of Migration through Literature, Objects and Film. Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia Fall 2013. 2013 “Irony in Czech Literature and Film.” Department of Central, Eastern and European Studies, University of British Columbia Fall 2013.
Lara Rosenoff Gauvin 2015 Greetings from Pabwoc, 'post' war Northern Uganda. Invited presentation at 'Interdisciplinarity Across the Globe' FIREtalk, at the University of British Columbia on Feb.4th 2015 ‘Self’ Portraits from Pabwoc Village: Photography and relationship in my research practice. Invited presentation at the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Visual and Material Culture at UBC on March 12th 2014 Collaboration Conundrums: Challenges of Collaborative Research Methodologies Workshop, Presenter and Organizer. The Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC April 9th.
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2015 Re-membering Through Traditional Courtship (cuna):Youth and Belonging in Rural Post- Conflict Northern Uganda. Society for the History of Children and Youth Eighth Biennial Conference. June 26th
Gastón Gordillo 2015 Keynote Speaker: “The Emergent Properties of Destruction.” American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, San Diego, March. 2015 “Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction” Monday Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, April. 2015 Keynote Speaker: “From Ruins to Rubble.” Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, April. 2015 “The South American Metropolis: Agribusiness and the End of Rurality.” Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago, April. 2015 “The Emergent Properties of Destruction: A Forensic Ethnography of the Argentine Soy Boom.” Boas Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, April. 2015 Participation in the student-run workshop “Americas South-Cityspaces,” on my book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, April. 2015 Workshop: Space, Materiality, and Violence. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, March. 2015 Panel on “Terrain” (with Stuart Elden). Association of American Geographers Meetings, Chicago, April. 2015 “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Space, Materiality, and Violence. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, March. 2015 “Insurgent Verticality.” Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Meetings, Chicago, April.
Ezra Greene 2015 Mapping Stó:lō Trails: Pathways to Cultural Landscapes. AGSA Talks!, Vancouver, January 7. 2015 "Mobilizing Arctic Knowledge: Perspectives from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change." Moderator of the ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledge of Change talk at Green College, UBC, February 25. 2015 Presenter and invited participant at Connections: The Place and Practice of Northern Research workshop, Liu Institute for Global Issues and Green College, UBC, April 27-28. 2015 Panelist on "Mapping Knowledge: An Assessment of Traditional Use Studies." Sto:ló ̄ People of the River: Indigenizing and Decolonizing, Sto:ló ̄ Research and Resource Management Centre, May 3.
Eric Guiry, Hepburn, J.C., and Richards, M.P. 2015. Stable nitrogen isotope analyses of micro-sampled untreated bulk tooth dentine powder from three Sus samples from the Historic site of Ferryland, Canada, reveals seasonal dietary shifts. Presneted at the UK Archaeological Science Conference 2015, Durham, UK.
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Eric Guiry, and Richards, M.P. 2015. Isotopic perspectives on domestic animal diet and trade at rural and urban sites in 19th C. Toronto, Canada. 48th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, St. John’s, Newfoundland. 2014. The bone chemistry of 17th C. rats: a novel approach early New World European conceptions of sanitation. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, USA.
Eric Guiry 2015. A cod-awful smell: Novel evidence for fisheries management and land use at 17- 18th century Ferryland and its social, economic, and sensorial implications. 48th Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, USA
Eric Guiry, Tourigny, E., Hodgetts, L., Noël, S. and Richards, M.P. 2014. Pig tusks from and early New World colony: Isotopic and archaeozoological insights for early pork trade and pig husbandry. 6th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Basel, Switzerland.
Eric Guiry, Beglane, F. and Richards, M.P. 2014. Irish and Canadian meat provisioning for the early transatlantic cod fisheries: integrating stable isotope and zooarchaeological approaches. 12th International Council of Zooarchaeology, San Rafael, Argentina.
Eric Guiry, and Harpley B. 2014. Animals from near and far: bone chemistry insights into meat provisioning at a historical working class neighbourhood in Melbourne, Australia.12th International Council of Zooarchaeology, San Rafael, Argentina.
Eric Guiry, and Hepburn, J.C. 2014. Intra individual analyses of pig canines: Isotopic insights into victualing and animal husbandry at an early New World colony. 47th Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Mascha Gugganig 2014 The Right to Know GMO? Attempts at cleaning up a poisoned paradise. Paper presented at the workshop “On the Scale of Worlds”: Technoscience and Global Governance. STS Program, Harvard Kennedy School, October 10. 2014 Knowledge Production at the Fringes: Intersections between Education and Activism on the Island of Kauaʻi. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association, Washington DC, December 4. 2015 Guest speaker at lecture “Weiterstudieren im Ausland?” [“Continuing studies abroad?”], Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, January
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Lauren Harding 2014 Gear-Heads and Gut-Instinct: Local and Visitor Attitudes Towards a Weather-worn Environment on Canada's West Coast. Paper presented at Under Western Skies 3: Intersection of Environments, Technologies and Communities conference at Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, September 10. 2015 "Balancing Balancing Mental Illness, Ethnographic Research and a Backpack: Hiking and Healing with Tourists on the West Coast Trail" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropological Society, Quebec, May 14. 2014 Remembering Clo-oose: The Vanishing Village of the West Coast Trail. Paper presented at Simon Fraser University/Network in Canadian History of Environment Conference on Memory, Tourism & Landscape, Vancouver, October 18.
Vinay Kamat 2014 “Malaria and its discontents: Re-politicizing a de-politicized global health problem” at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, September 3, 2014. 2015 The micropolitics of marine conservation and natural gas extraction in southeastern Tanzania. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Pittsburgh, March 27.
Chizuru Kinjo 2015 Presented the paper, Everyday Life and Culture in Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, at the annual Japan Studies Association of Canada meetings, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, May 21.
Evan Koike 2014 'University Clubs in Post-Growth Japan,' at the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) conference held at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, on October 17, 2014.
Jennifer Kramer, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, and Ki-Ke-in (Ron Hamilton) 2014 presented on our co-edited anthology Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas. Vancouver Institute, UBC, November 1.
Jennifer Kramer 2015 "When the Visual is Political: Cultural Belongings and Central Northwest Coast Material Culture" in Symposium Past Matters: Teaching History Through Material Culture, UBC March 6, 2015. 2014 Roundtable Participant “What Role Can Museums Play in the Revitalization of Endangered Languages and Knowledges?” American Anthropological Association Meetings. Washington, DC, Dec 6. 2014 Panel Organizer “Repatriation Relations” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC December 4.
Andrew Martindale 2014 A Line in Time: archaeological evidence of Tsimshian narratives of the “War with the Tlingit.” Simon Fraser Department of Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series.
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R.G. Matson 2015 The Nutritional Context of the Pueblo III Depopulation of the Northern San Juan: Too Much Maize? Paper presentation at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 19. 2014 Cedar Mesa Contributions to Southwestern Archaeology: BM II and BM III. Paper presented at the Pecos Conference 2014, Blanding, Utah, August 8.
William D. Lipe and R.G. Matson 2015 Rats Rule! Climbing and Coring in Southeast Utah Cliff Dwellings. Presentation at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 18, San Francisco.
Jenna Battillo, Karen Lupo, Jaime Mata-Miguez, Deborah Bolnick, William Lipe and R.G. Matson 2014 No Bones About It: aDNA sequencing of dietary remains from human paleofeces. Paper Presented at the 12th ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology) International Conference at San Fafael, Argentina, Sept. 26.
Carol E. Mayer 2015 How Tambanum Grew In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man. Invited talk at Visual and Material Culture Research Seminar Series Winter Term 2, MOA, February 26, 2015 2015 Mission Accomplished? The Legacy of Religious Missionary Movements on the Art of Oceania.” Panel chair and presenter at the College Art Association conference, New York, February 11th, 2015. 2014 Fifteen Men and a Hen: the Pacific Collections of Nina Burnett Potts 1898-1958. Paper presented at Pacific Arts Association (Europe) symposium, Cologne, April 26. 2014 Museums and Galleries as Agents of Social Change. Paper presented at Western Museums Association Conference, Las Vegas, October 6. 2014 The Third Space: how to re-imagine concepts of creativity, connection, learning and community involvement in engaging social practices. Invited paper presented at BC Museums Association conference, Penticton, October 23
William H. McKellin 2014 Presenter and discussant for in a panel: Clinical and Translational Research through the Lens of Qualitative and Non-Categorical Measures. In The Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014.
Collet, Jean-Paul, Louise C. Mâsse, William H. McKellin, Anton R Miller, Christopher Bertram, Rollin Brant, Mojgan Gitimoghaddam, Annette Majnemer, and Jonathan Weiss 2014 To Improve Quality of Life and Functioning of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: Moving toward Activity-Based Personalized Interventions In The Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014.
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Gitimoghaddam, M., William H. McKellin, A.R. Miller, A. Majnemer, J. Weiss, V. Symington, R.L. Wishart, L.C. Mâsse, and J.P. Collet 2014 Evaluation of a Multi-Level Gymnastic-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Children and Youth with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (CYNDs): Preliminary Results In The Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014.
Jaggumantri, Sravan, William McKellin, Sylvia Stockler, Clara van Karnebeek, and Jean-Paul Collet 2014 Personalized Evaluation Model for Making Informed Decisions in Treatments for Individuals with Intellectual Disability. In the Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014.
Collet, Jean-Paul, and William McKellin 2014 Personalized Evidence of Treatment Effects for the Practice of Personalized Medicine. In Advances in Pediatrics, BC Children's Hospital. Vancouver, BC 2014. Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in Crisis: From EBM to Individualized Care. Advances in Pediatrics, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., November 28, 2014.
William McKellin, Sravan Jaggumantri, Christopher Condin, Mojgan Gitimoghaddam and Jean P. Collet 2014 Individualized Patient Outcomes: Goal Attainment Scaling. Paper Presented at the meeting of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders. Toronto. March 6, 2014
Charles Menzies 2014. Distinguished Lecture: “Oil, Energy, and Anthropological Collaboration on the Northwest Coast of Canada.” Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque. Oct. 2 2014. Haika Pass Institute Course. Guest lecture. May 25, 2014. 2014. Invited Presentation: “Tskah, xs’waanx– herring, herring roe: colonialism and the narrowing of Indigenous resource utilization. Juneau and Anchorage, Alaska. April 9-12, 2014. Fisheries and Resources Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 2014. "A Place on the Edge of the Ocean, Where Last Hopes Are:" an Autoethnography of the End of the Road." Poster in session: PRODUCING ANTHROPOLOGY ON THE EDGE /AT THE END(S)/ OF THE WORLD(S). American Anthropological Association annual conference, Washington D.C., Dec. 3-7, 2014.
Bruce Granville Miller 2015. Indians as Suspicious Peoples, talk given to the International Seminar Identities and Collective Mobilizations: Perspectives on American Contexts, in Havana, Cuba, April 15th. 2015. Invited Talk: Indigenous Peoples of Canada in the Contemporary World. Colloquium 6, Tourism in Traditional and Indigenous Communities. State University of the Amazonas, Brazil. May 8 2015. Invited Speaker: Roundtable on Cultural Translation, thought leaders and practitioners, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and SFU Centre for Dialogue, June 17. 2015. Invited Speaker: Canadian Indians at the US-Canada Borderlands. Studies in Interethnic Relations Symposium (Lageri), Department of Anthropology, University of Brazilia. April 24.
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2015. Invited Talk: An Ethnographic Perspective on Coast Salish on the International Border. Department of Anthropology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. April 27. 2015. Indigenes at the Contested Boarder, talk given to the International Seminar Identities and Collective Mobilizations: Perspectives on American Contexts, in Havana, Cuba, April 15th.
Tal Nitsán 2015 “Producing Rape Free Campus Cultures: Teaching as Activism”. Paper presented at Society for Anthropology of North America Meeting: Inequality, Equality, and Difference. New York, April 18 2014 “When Rape Culture Meets the Man from the Dark Alley”. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association: Producing Anthropology. Washington DC. December 6.
Vishala Parmasad 2015. A Trace of Sugar: The mediation of global ontologies through local management practices for diabetes care in Trinidad, West Indies. Paper to be presented at the International Union of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress 15-17th July, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Colleen Parsley and Chris Springer 2015 “Pit Stop” or Long-Term Residence: An archaeological view of Island Use in the NE Salish Sea, BC. Paper presented at the SFU Archaeology Symposium, Vancouver, March 7, 2015.
Colleen Parsley 2014 Cops, Campers, and Colonial Myth: Reconstructing Heritage on Texada Island. Paper presented at the B.C. Archaeology Forum, Nanaimo, B.C. October 18.
Kimberly Plomp, Una Strand Vidarsdottir, Darlene Weston, Mark Collard 2015 3D Vertebral morphology, locomotion, and human spinal health. Paper presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, St Louis, Missouri, Mar 25-29.
David Pokotylo 2015 Public Perceptions of Archaeology and its Impact on Archaeological Resource Preservation: A Case Study from Western Canada. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 17.
Oralia Gómez-Ramírez 2015 Ethnohistories: Socio-Legal Battles of Trans Women in Mexico's "City of Freedoms". Paper presented at the 6th Latin America Research Group Workshop, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, March 14
Justine Raycraft 2015 Global Leadership in Context: Finding a Local Focal Point. Workshop presented at the University of British Columbia Student Leadership Conference, Vancouver, January 10. 2015 Marine Conservation, Dispossession and Out-Migration of Fishers in Southeastern Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, March 25.
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Leslie Robertson 2015 “Know Whose Ledge ‘Yer On: Risk and Collaborative Relationships.’ Know the Ledge We’re On: From Accountability to Activist Research. SFU, Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities. Harbour Centre, Vancouver, (17 April). 2014 ‘Decolonizing Ancestry: Collaborations with the Other Side of History?’ International Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto, (23 May). 2015 ‘Implicating Ancestors: Making and Unmaking Difficult Histories on the Northwest Coast.’ University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology Colloquia Series, (19 January). 2014 ‘Resource of the Imagination: Tracking the Legend of the Fernie Curse.’ Fernie and District Historical Society Speakers Series to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Fernie Curse - Raising Ceremony, Fernie, BC, (11 September). 2014 (With Terre Satterfield), ‘Reasserting ‘Namgis Food Sovereignty Or, Three Boats and a Truck.’ Musqueam 101, Musqueam First Nation Elder’s Centre, Vancouver, BC. (2 April).
Lara Rosenoff Gauvin 2015. Greetings from Pabwoc, 'post' war Northern Uganda. Invited presentation at 'Interdisciplinarity Across the Globe' FIREtalk, at UBC on February 4.\ 2015. ‘Self’ Portraits from Pabwoc Village: Photography and relationship in my research practice. Invited presentation at the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Visual and Material Culture at UBC on March 12 2014. Collaboration Conundrums: Challenges of Collaborative Research Methodologies Workshop, April 9. Presenter and Organizer. The Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC. 2015. Re-membering Through Traditional Courtship (cuna): Youth and Belonging in Rural Post- Conflict Northern Uganda. Society for the History of Children and Youth Eighth Biennial Conference. June 26.
David C. Ryniker 2015 Discourses of Disaster, Disease and Dysfunction. Paper presented for International Development Week, Friends of Medicine Sans Frontier (UBC) and Friends of the Red Cross (UBC), Vancouver, February 3.
Anthony Shelton 2015. Discussant. Landscape Surgery. Postgraduate workshop, Geography Department, Royal Holloway University London, London UK. May 19. 2015. Discussant. The Place of Performance: Museums, Collections, and Indigeneity. Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) Symposium, Royal Holloway University London, Egham, UK. May 20 2014 Entangled Agencies: Museums as Cultural Generators. Paper presented at the International Biennial Conference of Museum Studies, Taipei, October 30. 2014. ‘Curatorial Strategies for Exiting Modernity: Curating Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between’. Taipei National University of the Arts Graduate Seminar. November 3rd. 2014. Keynote Address. ‘Repatriation: Interfaces between Communities and Museums.’ The Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo Repatriation Seminar. November 18th. 2014. Discussant. ‘Museums, Power and Globalization: Shifting Institutional Identities in the Age of Plurality.’ American Anthropological Association 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. December 4th.
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Sara Shneiderman 2014 Organized and presented on a roundtable session "Border Politics, Identities, and Scholarship Across the Himalayas" at the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference in Hong Kong, December 2014 2015 Seminar presentation "Restructuring Life: Local, National and Global Orders in Nepal's State of Transformation", Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, January 2015 2015 “Affective and Administrative Boundaries: The Properties of Territory in Nepal’s State of Transformation”, Keynote speech at Articulating Ethnicity: Language and the Boundaries of the Himalayas, University at Buffalo, NY 2015 “What Does Nepal’s Future Look Like?”, Trans-Himalayan Aid Society public lecture, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2015 “Mountains as Identity Markers: High Tropes in Himalayan Cultural Politics”, conference paper, Thinking Mountains 2015, Canadian Institute of Mountain Studies, Jasper, Alberta, May 2015 “Nepal’s 2015 Earthquake 2015: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead”, panelist, Institute of Asian Research and UBC Nepali Students Association, UBC, June
Mark Turin 2015 Keynote speaker at iSchool@UBC Research Day ‘Information & Responsibilities’ 6 March 2015. Lecture entitled ‘And what of the Analogue Humanities? Lives, After-Lives and Responsibilities in Digital Anthropology,’ IKBLC, UBC. 2015 Hugo Valentin lecture. Uppsala University, Sweden. 18 February. 2015 Invited Colloquium speaker ‘Collaborations in Language’, University of Victoria, Department of Linguistics, Clearihue C108, 19 March. 2015 ‘Digital Collections and Connections: DH @ UBC’, UBC/SFU Digital Salon. 26 March. 2015 ‘Mother Tongue or Heritage Identity? Ethnicity, Belonging and Language in Sikkim’ SACPAN 2015: South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest, Institute for Asian Research, UBC, 6-7 March. 2015 ‘Language Endangerment and Human Rights’ poster with Ashli Akins, 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 4), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 26 February-1 March. 2015 Invited Seminar ‘Digital Tools, Ownership & Intellectual Property in Community-based Documentation Projects’ 17 February 2015, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. 2015 Participant in Peter Wall Institute Theme Development Workshop, ‘Exploring the Role of University Museums in Mobilizing Cultural Resources for Central Northwest Coast First Nations Cultural Revitalization’, UBC, 23 March. Coordinator: Jennifer Kramer. 2014 Invited Presenter and Participant at “Arctic-Wise: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change: Creating A Shared Space For Research, Education And Information: Planning For Arctic- Wise Online." Coach House, Green College, UBC, 7 October. 2014 Invited Presenter, Workshop Participant and Member of Scientific Advisory Board for “ st International Caucasus University Association (CUA) Conference on Endangered Languages”, Ardahan University, Turkey, October 13-16, 2014. 2015. 'Digital Himalaya: Longevity, Mobility and Endurance in Online Anthropology', invited presentation for the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group in the Research Data Alliance, 12 May.
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2014 Co-organizer with Cordelia Frewen of invited session sponsored by the Council for Museum Anthropology. ‘What role can museums play in the revitalization of endangered languages and knowledges? A roundtable discussion.’ American Anthropological Association annual meeting. December 6. 2014. Roundtable participant ‘The lifecycle of ethnographic information – challenges in the preservation and accessibility of qualitative data.’ American Anthropological Association annual meeting. December 3.
Darlene Weston 2015 Indigenous health in the Caribbean: a comparison of pre- and post-European contact skeletal populations. Invited paper presented at the Nexus 1492 seminar, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. March 31.
Marina Elliot, Helen Kurki, Darlene Weston, Mark Collard 2015 Estimating body mass from post-cranial remains: an evaluation using a large known-mass sample of modern humans. Invited poster presented at the symposium “Body Mass Estimation in Biological Anthropology”, American Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, St Louis, Missouri, Mar 25-29.
Clayton Whitt 2015 Spatialized Anxieties: Quinoa in a Transforming Andean Landscape. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Vancouver, June 4. 2015 Fluid Terrain: Climate Change and the Textured Materiality of Daily Life in the Bolivian Highlands. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 22. 2015 "Everything is Mixed Up": Experiencing the Elements of Climate Change in the Bolivian Andes. Paper presented at Thinking Mountains 2015, Jasper, AB, May 6.
Krista Zawadski 2015 Kakpiit: (Re)Discovering Inuit Needle Cases in Museum Collections. Presented at the 13th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium, The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, BC, March 7.
2015 Arctic-Wise, UBC’s Polar Club and Green College Partnership for Collaboration and Sharing. Presented at NS@30 Conference, Nunavut Sivuniksavut. Gatineau, QC, April 28. 2015 "Connecting Programming to Community Needs." Moderator at NS@30 Conference, Nunavut Sivuniksavut, April 28.
Publications
Chris Arnett 2014 My Grandfather Tom Anderson. In From the West Coast to the Western Front: British Columbians and The Great War. Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson, eds. P.16. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing
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2015 Review of “A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of Its Heroes” by Tom Swanky. BC Studies, http://bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/missing-genocide-and-demonization-its-heroes.
John Barker 2014. “The One and the Many: Church-Centered Innovations in a Papua New Guinea Community,” Current Anthropology 55(S10): S172-S181 2015. Video review of “Unity Through Culture,” by Christian Suhr and Ton Otto and “Stori Tumbuna: Ancestors’ Story,” by Paul Wolffram. Pacific Affairs 88(2): 298-92. 2014 Review of “Moral Anthropology: A Critical Reader,” edited by Didier Fassin and Samuel Lézé. Anthropological Forum. DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2014.943139 2014 Review of “Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands,” by Katherine Lepani. Pacific Affairs 87(3):660-662. 2014 Review of “Melanesia: Art and Encounter,” edited by Lissant Bolton et al. Pacific Affairs 87(4):917-19. 2014. Review of “Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla & Nesqualy (1846- 1879),” edited by R.S. Brown and P.O. Killen. BC Studies 184: 146-47. 2014. “Fashioning Rebirth: Mourning and Memory in a Papua New Guinea Village,” Vestoj – the Journal of Sartorial Matters, Issue 5: 189-197.
Kirsten Bell and Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic 2014 Communicating 'evidence': Lifestyle, cancer and the promise of a disease-free future. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (early view form).
Kirsten Bell and Helen Keane 2014 All gates lead to smoking: the 'gateway theory', e-cigarettes and the remaking of nicotine. Social Science and Medicine 119: 45-52.
Kirsten Bell and Denielle Elliott 2014 Editorial. Censorship in the name of ethics: Critical public health research in the age of human subjects’ regulation. Critical Public Health 24(4): 385-391.
Kirsten Bell and Amy Salmon 2014 Pain, physical dependence, and pseudoaddiction: Redefining addiction for ‘nice’ people? In The American Drug Scene: Readings in a Global Context. 7th edition. James A. Inciardi & Karen McElrath, eds. Pp. 50-161. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kirsten Bell and Judith Green 2015 Editorial. Keeping a critical edge: Reflections on 25 years as a scholarly journal. Critical Public Health 25(1): 1-3.
Rebecca Haines-Saah, Kirsten Bell and Simone Dennis 2015 A qualitative content analysis of health warning labels on cigarette packaging in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA. American Journal of Public Health, available in early view form.
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Kirsten Bell 2014 Thwarting the diseased will: Ulysses contracts, the self and addiction. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (early view form). 2014 Review of The Social Value of Drug Addicts: the Uses of the Useless by Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (early view form). 2014 How to review a journal article. Laughing Matters series. Centre for Imaginative Ethnography blog, 21 October, http://www.imaginativeethnography.org/interventions/laughing-matters/how-to-review-a- journal-article/ 2014 Resisting commensurability: Against informed consent as an anthropological virtue. American Anthropologist 116(3) (early view form). DOI: 10.1111/aman.12122 2014 Breast vs. the rest: a response to Koczwara and Ward. Social Science and Medicine (early view form). DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.007 2014 Random reflections on getting published. Vitae, 14 July 2014, https://chroniclevitae.com/news/606-random-reflections-on-getting-published 2014 Must love dogs. PopAnth: Hot-Buttered Humanity, 7 July 2014, http://popanth.com/article/must-love-dogs/ 2015 Review of Habits: Remaking Addiction by Suzanne Fraser, David Moore and Helen Keane (2014). Critical Public Health, available in early view form. 2014 Review of "Alcohol in Latin America: a Social and Cultural History" by Gretchen Pierce & Áurea Toxqui, eds (2014).Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 39(2): 324-326. 2015 Abandoning informed consent? American Anthropological Association Ethics Blog: http://ethics.aaanet.org/abandoning-informed-consent/ 2015 From the journal editor’s vantage point. Vitae: Chronicle of Higher Education Blog: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/912-from-the-journal-editor-s-vantage-point
Millie Creighton 2015 Civil Society Volunteers Supporting Japan's Constitution, Article 9 and Associated Peace, Diversity, and Post 3.11 Environmental Issues. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. (2015): vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 121-143. 2014 Review of Coffee Life in Japan by Merry White Asian Ethnology. vol.73, no. 1-2, pp. 337- 339. 2015. The Opening of an Innovative New University Credit Course on Chado, The Japanese Tea Ceremony, A First for Canada. Japan Studies of Canada Spring Newsletter, first published May 7, 2015. http://www.jsac.ca/newsletter/jsac_newsletter_spring_2015.pdf. 2014 'Emergent Japanese Discourses on Minorities, Race, Culture, and Identity.' Global Ethnographic, volume 2014, issue 2, pp. 1-30. 2014. Civil Society Volunteers Supporting Japan's Constitution, Article 9 and Associated Peace, Diversity, and Post 3.11 Environmental Issues. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. pp. 1-25. DOI 10.1007/s11266-014-9479-5. (online first version preceding hard copy of journal, available via Open Access, JSTOR.)
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2015. 'Postscript 59: The Social and Soulful Lives of Things--MILLIE CREIGHTON on YUJI AGEMATSU'. Artspeak Exhibition article and commentary. Vancouver, BC: Artspeak Gallery. accessible at: http://artspeak.ca/artspeak-wp/wp- content/uploads/2014/12/postscript_59_agematsu_Final.pdf. 2014. 'Wasuren!--We Won't Forget! The Work of Remembering and Commemorating Japan's and Tohoku's (3.11) Triple Disasters in Local Cities and Communities'. Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 97-119.
Sarah Fessenden 2015 The Voice of the Voiceless: Limitations of ‘Empowerment’ and the Potential for Engaged, Insider Research Methodologies with Anarcho-Punk Youth. In Youth ‘At the Margins’: Critical Perspectives and Experiences of Engaging Youth in Research Worldwide. Bastien, Sheri and Halla B. Holmarsdottir, eds. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Gregory Gan 2015 “Soaring to Dizzying Heights: Christ the Saviour Cathedral as a Historical Arena for the Persecution of Pussy Riot,” Critique of Anthropology 35(2):166-186. Viktor Misiano, ed. Moscow Art Magazine Digest 2007-2014. Gregory Gan, translator. Moscow Art Magazine: Moscow.
Gastón Gordillo 2014 Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Durham: Duke University Press. 2014 Lefebvre’s Beach: Review Essay of Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment. Society and Space Open Site. October 2014. 2015 Empire on Trial: The Forensic Appearance of Truth. Society and Space: Environment and Panning D. 33(2):382-388. 2015. Nazi Architecture as Affective Weapon. In Funambulist Papers (Volume 2). Pp. 54-63. Edited by Léopold Lambert. New York: Punctum.
Eric Guiry, Hillier, M., and Richards, M.P. 2015. Mesolithic dietary heterogeneity on the European Atlantic coast: stable isotope insights into hunter-gatherer foodways in the Sado valley, Portugal. Current Anthropology, 56(3): 460- 470
Eric Guiry, Staniforth, M., Nehlich, O., Grimes, V., Smith, C., Harpley, B., Noël, S., and Richards, M. 2015. Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 1:21-28. 2015. Stable isotope analyses of faunal remains from the 1838 wreck of the Steamboat Heroine. Society of Archaeological Science Bulletin 38(2):1-2. 2015. Paleodietary analyses. In Metheny K.B. and Beaudry M.C. (eds.), The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopaedia. AltaMira Press / Rowan and Littlefield. In Press
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Eric Guiry, and Gaulton, B. 2015. Inferring human behaviours from isotopic analyses of rats diets: A critical review and historical application. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. DOI 10.1007/s10816- 015-9248-9
Antsey, R.J., Eric Guiry, Renouf, M.A.P., and Deal, M. 2015. Assessing the antiquity of archaeobotanical remains: a cautionary tale from Port au Choix, Newfoundland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. DOI 10.1007/s00334-015-0526-y
Eric Guiry, Harpley, B., Jones, Z., and Smith, C. 2014. Integrating stable isotope and zooarchaeological analyses in historical archaeology: a case study from the urban nineteenth-century Commonwealth Block site, Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 18:415-440.
Grimes, V., Fuller, B.T., and Eric Guiry. 2014. Reconstructing diets and origins of Vikings at Hrísbrú, Mosfell Valley, Iceland: The carbon, nitrogen and strontium isotope evidence. In: Zori, D. and Byock, J. (eds.), Viking Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeology Project. Brepols Publishers, Belgium. Pgs 105-116.
Bryn Letham 2014 Settlement and Shell-Bearing Site Diversity in the Sechelt Inlet System, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 38(1):280-328.
Leslie Robertson 2015 Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly, Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch, 250p, Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2013. BC Studies. (Online, 13 January).
Vinay Kamat 2014 “The ocean is our farm”: Marine conservation, food insecurity, and social suffering in southeastern Tanzania. Human Organization 73(3):289-298.
Diana Marsh 2015 “Reassembling the Social Life of a Medicine Man: Reassessing otherness, agency and authorship in the Wellcome Archives.” Journal of Material Culture I-35, http://mcu.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/07/1359183515578977.full.pdf+html.
Kenneth M Ames, and Andrew Martindale 2014 Rope Bridges and Cables: A Synthesis of Prince Rupert Harbour Archaeology. Canadian Journal of Archaeology. 38(1):140-178.
Andrew Martindale 2014 Archaeology Taken to Court: Unraveling the Epistemology of Cultural Tradition in the Context of Aboriginal Title Cases. IN Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology. Neal Ferris and Rodney Harrison, eds. pp. 397-422. Oxford University Press.
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Andrew Martindale and George Nicholas 2014 Archaeology as Federated Knowledge. Canadian Journal of Archaeology. 38(2):434-465.
Andrew Martindale and Natasha Lyons (Guest Editors) 2014 Community-Oriented Archaeology. Special Section of the Canadian Journal of Archaeology. 38(2) 2014 Introduction: Community-Oriented Archaeology. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(2):425-433.
R.G. Matson 2014 Cedar Mesa Basketmaker II: The story continues. Archaeology Southwest 28(3&4): 24-30.
R.G. Matson and M.P.R. Magne 2015 North America: Na Dene/ Athapaskan archaeology and linguistics. In The Global Prehistory of Human Migration, ed. by Peter Bellwood, pp. 333-339, Chichester, UK: WileyBlackwell (a republication).
Carol E. Mayer 2015 A green Dress: Vanuatu. In Trophies, Relics and Curios? Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific. Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield, eds. Pp. 131-138. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2015 A Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics. Figure.1 Vancouver/Berkeley. 172 pp.
Metcalfe, J.Z., Longstaffe, F.J. 2014 Environmental change and seasonal behavior of mastodons in the Great Lakes region inferred from stable isotope analysis. Quaternary Research 82: 366-377.
Schwartz-Narbonne, R., Longstaffe, F.J., Metcalfe, J.Z., Zazula, G. 2015 Solving the woolly mammoth conundrum: amino acid 15N-enrichment suggests a distinct forage or habitat. Scientific Reports 5. DOI: 10.1038/srep09791
Zazula, G.D., MacPhee, R.D.E., Jessica Z Metcalfe, Reyes, A.V., Brock, F., Druckenmiller, P.S., Groves, P., Harington, C.R., Hodgins, G.W.L., Kunz, M.L., Longstaffe, F.J., Mann, D.H., McDonald, H.G., Nalawade- Chavan, S., Southon, J.R. 2014. American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111: 18460-18465.
Collet, Jean-Paul, William McKellin, Sravan Jaggumantri, and Niranjan Kissoon 2014 Personalized Evidence of Treatment Effects for the Practice of Personalized Medicine: A New Model of Care. BMC Health Services Research 14(2):1-1.
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Ipsiroglu, Osman Sevket, Yi-Hsuan Amy Hung, Forson Chan, Michelle Ross, Dorothee Veer, Sonja Soo, Gloria Ho, Mai Berger, Graham McAllister, Heinrich Garn, Gerhard Kloesch, Adriano Vilela Barbosa, Sylvia Stockler, William McKellin, and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson 2015 “Diagnosis by Behavioral Observation” Home-Videosomnography – a Rigorous Ethnographic Approach to Sleep of Children with Neurodevelopmental Conditions. Frontiers in Psychiatry 6.
Jaggumantri, Sravan, William McKellin, Sylvia Stockler, Clara van Karnebeek, and Jean-Paul Collet 2014 Personalized Evaluation Model for Making Informed Decisions in Treatments for Individuals with Intellectual Disability. In Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal.
Schrewe, Brett, Daniel D Pratt, and William H McKellin 2015 Adapting the Forms of Yesterday to the Functions of Today and the Needs of Tomorrow: A Genealogical Case Study of Clinical Teaching Units in Canada. Advances in Health Sciences Education: 1-25.
Charles R. Menzies 2015. “Oil, Energy, and Anthropological Collaboration on the Northwest Coast of Canada.” Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 71(1):5-21. 2015. Charles R. Menzies. “In Our Grandmothers’ Garden: An Indigenous Approach to Collaborative Film.” In Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, and Marty Otañez, (eds). Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Books. 2015. Charles R. Menzies. “At the End of the Road: Reflections on Finistère, Land’s End, France.” In Nieves Herrero Pérez and Sharon R. Roseman (eds). The Tourist Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World. Bristol: Channel View Publications Ltd. Pp. 47-61.
Bruce Granville Miller 2014 Review of A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire. Journal of Folklore Research, posted October 29. 1078 words 2015 Review of “Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice. Lisa Blee,” The American Historical Review 2015 120 (1): 247-248 2014 Review of Indigenous Peoples of North America: A Concise Anthropological Overview. Robert Muckle, BC Studies 183: 145-146. 2014 Review of Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgement. Mark Edwin Miller, University of Oklahoma Press. New Mexico Historical Review 89 (4): 540-542. An Ethnographic view of Legal Entanglements on the Salish Sea Borderlands, UBC Law Review. 47 (3): 991-1024.
Tal Nitsán 2015 “Rape Culture on University Campuses.” An interdisciplinary panel discussion organized by the Sociology Students' Association as part of the UBC Sexual Assault Awareness Month, January 27.
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Vishala Parmasad 2015. “She is my blood: replacement donation and reciprocity in Trinidad,” in Giving Blood: The Institutional making of Altruism, edited by Johanne Charbonneau & André Smith, Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness. London: Routledge.
Wilson, Marisa, and Vishala Parmasad. 2014. “Political economies of sugar: views from a former sugar cane industry.” In Dietary Sugars and Health, edited by Michael Goran, Luc Tappy and Kim-Anne Le. Oxford: Taylor & Francis.
Kimberly Plomp, Una Strand Vidarsdottir, Darlene Weston, Keith Dobney, Mark Collard 2015 The Ancestral Shape Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Explanation for the Occurrence of Intervertebral Disc Herniation in Humans. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:68.
Jaime Guzman, Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Roman Jurencak, Natalie J. Shiff,Roberta A. Berard, Ciaran M. Duffy, Kiem Oen, Ross E. Petty, Susanne M. Benseler, Rollin Brant, and Lori B. Tucker 2014 What Matters Most for Patients, Parents, and Clinicians in the Course of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis? A Qualitative Study. Journal of Rheumatology 41(11):2260-2269.
Robin Ridington 2014 Dane-zaa Oral History: Why It's Not Hearsay. BC Studies. no. 183, Autumn 2014: 77- 102. 2014 They Dream About Everything: The Last Dreamers of the Dane-zaa. in Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep. vol 2: 193-208. Ryan Hurd and Kelly Bulkeley, eds. Praeger: Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford.
David C. Ryniker 2015 Space and Time in West Guadalcanal: A Political Economy. Special Issue "Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development," Global Bioethics 26(2):58-72.
Sara Shneiderman 2015 “Nepal: the Long Road to Recovery” Asia Pacific Memo. Co-authored with Mark Turin 2015 “Nepal’s Relief Effort Must Reach the Rural Poor” Globe & Mail. Co-authored with Mark Turin. 2015 “Nepal’s Citizenship Challenges: Gender and Sovereignty in the Himalayas”, Asia Pacific Memo #326.http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/nepal-citizenship-gender 2015 Review of Bodies in Balance: the Art of Tibetan Medicine. Theresia Hofer, ed. (exhibition and book review). Museum Anthropology 38(1): 63-65. 2015. Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Contemporary Ethnography Series)
Anthony Shelton 2015 Popular Art and Portuguese Identity: Anatomy of an Exhibition. Paper presented at Birkbeck Arts Week, Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, Birkbeck University of London, London, May 21. 2015 World Museums: Geographies and Genealogies. The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) Dialogue, Royal Holloway, University London, London, UK. May 19.
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2014 Review of Mukurtu Content Management System. Language Documentation and Conservation, 8: 315-325. http://hdl.handle.net/ 10125/24610.
Bir Bahadur Thami and Laxmi Basukala, edited by Mark Turin. 2014. Niko Thangmi Kham: Kaksha Nis (Our Thangmi Language: Class Two). Kathmandu: Educate the Children. Mother tongue primer for Thangmi-speaking children. 60 pages.
Gurung, Om, Tamang, Mukta Singh and Mark Turin 2014. Perspectives on Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Nepal. Kathmandu: Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. ISBN 9789937524506.
Mark Turin 2014. ‘Mother Tongues and Language Competence: The Shifting Politics of Linguistic Belonging in the Himalayas’ Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self: Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action. Edited by Toffin, G. and Pfaff-Czarnecka, J. Sage Publications. Delhi. Vol. 5, pp. 371-396. 2014. Book 2.0: Digital Humanities. 4 (1 & 2). Edited by Mark Turin & Mick Gowar. 149 pages. 2014. ‘From Ancient Nepal to Digital Himalaya: Meditations on History, Technology and Access’ Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi. Edited by Lewis, T. and B.M. Owens. Social Science Baha and Himal Books. Kathmandu. pp. 367-378. 2014. ‘Book review’ (review of Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language: English-Great Andamanese-Hindi by Anvita Abbi) Indian Linguistics, Vol. 74 (3-4) 2013: 149-153 2014. ‘Nepal’s recent history on pdf’ Nepali Times. Issue 700, 28 March–3 April, p. 4. 2014 ‘Orality and Technology, or the Bit and the Byte: The Work of the World Oral Literature Project’ Oral Tradition, 28/2 (2013):173-186.
Special Events and Media
Alexia Bloch 2015. Discussant. Russia's Migration Regulatory Regime: Migration Policy, Laws, Enforcement and Effects. Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. London, U.K. June 19.
Daniel Brasil 2015. Organizer and coordinator. International Seminar Identities and Collective Mobilizations: Perspectives on American Contexts. Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello. Havana, Cuba, April 15th.
Millie Creighton Interviewed for and quoted in the article, Noh Pressure! Noh Workshop in Vancouver, by Jacob Derkson published in, The Geppo Bulletin: A Journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History + Culture, April 2015 edition, pp. 7 and 21. (The article can also be assessed at the journal's online site at: http://jccabulletin-geppo.ca/noh-pressure-noh-workshop-in-vancouver/). The article, with Dr. Creighton quoted, was also originally published in a somewhat different version in the Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society's Nikkei Forum, April 2015 edition.
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Tal Nitsán 2015 Round Table Co-Organizer (with Peggy Sanday) Activism for Sexual Equality on Campus. Society for Anthropology of North America Meeting: Inequality, Equality, and Difference. New York, April 18. 2014 Round Table Co-Organizer (with Peggy Sanday) Producing Rape-free Campus Cultures. American Anthropological Association: Producing Anthropology, Washington DC. Dec 6. 2015 Organizer. Fighting with Masculinity. Reimagining Manhood Movie Night. UBC, June 4. 2015 -Organizer (with the Sexual Assault Support Center). A Discussion on Healthy Masculinities at UBC. UBC, March 3. 2014 Special Event Organizer: Counter Narratives: Troubling Official Discourses on the “War on Drugs” in Mexico. A two days’ workshop with Julián Cardona, Liu Institute for Global Issues, B.C. November 27-28. 2014 Special Event Organizer: Self-Determination or Consultation? Tensions, Challenges, and Limits of the Indigenous Rights Discourse in Chile. Latin America and the Global presents: Magdalena Ugarte: Notes from the Field. Liu Institute for Global Issues, B.C. November 12. 2014 Special Event Organizer: “Homicide and Canicide: Exploring Epistemologies of Violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Latin America and the Global presents: Juanita Sundberg: Notes from the Field. Liu Institute for Global Issues, B.C. October 22. 2014 Special Event Organizer. Latin America and the Global presents: Gaston Gordillo: Notes from the Field. Liu Institute for Global Issues, B.C, October 1.
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