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 […]
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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
Anthropology, Islam & Muslim Societies (ANTH 3570)
Islam is a faith that is practised today by over a billion people whose traditions and civilisations are rich and diverse. So how do we study Islam and Muslims? And what do Muslims have to say about their own traditions and life-worlds? This 6-credit seminar course introduces students to the Islamic tradition, past and present. […]
Congratulations to our Anthropology Students, Undergraduate, IBA, Masters &PhD - Class of 2019
Masters Degree Jordan Hodgins Lesley Vesley Doctoral Degree Guillaume Dandurand Nicole McFadyen
Passing of Prof. Marilyn Silverman
Dr. Marilyn Silverman: April 30, 1945 – June 18, 2019 Our former colleague, Marilyn Silverman, passed away yesterday, Tuesday 18th June 2019, after a long, arduous, and courageous struggle with cancer. She was a longstanding member of the Department of Anthropology, fundamental in shaping it to its present position as one of the pre-eminent departments […]
ANTH 4130 The Professional Anthropologist Work-Study Placement Info Session on May 7, 2019 10 AM-12 PM at Vari Hall 2054
ANTH 4130 The Professional Anthropologist Work-Study Placement Info Session on May 7, 2019 10 AM-12 PM at Vari Hall 2054 contact chranth@yorku.ca Poster (PDF)
Power and Violence: The Making of Modernity ANTH3370 3.0
Instructor: Prof. Dan Yon Time: 11:30am-2:30pm Films Used Include: The Bible and the Gun, Battle of Algiers, Black Skin White Mask, Black Rain, War and Peace, Anybody’s Son Will Do Tops Include: Colonial violence Psychological violence Epistemic violence State violence Resistance violence Racial/ethnic/religious violence War and Peace The violence of ‘science’ Art and violence The violence […]
To humanize Muslims, let’s start in the classroom by Zulfikar Hirji, Contributed to The Globe and Mail
Zulfikar Hirji is an associate professor at York University and co-author of Islam: An Illustrated Journey. A number of years ago, my son came home from school excited to tell me that he was studying the medieval era. “That’s great," I said. "Where?” Looking confused, he turned to me and said, “You know, medieval times, […]