tinyurl.com/yc5rm94b @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social Anthropology NEEDS your ideas, experiences and views! Join us to learn more and share your thoughts on our courses, programs, and more! Free Pizza & $50 door prize Thursday, February 12th, 2026 11:30-12:50 COR B250

tinyurl.com/yc5rm94b @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social Anthropology NEEDS your ideas, experiences and views! Join us to learn more and share your thoughts on our courses, programs, and more! Free Pizza & $50 door prize Thursday, February 12th, 2026 11:30-12:50 COR B250

tinyurl.com/yc8e66c4 UVic Anth & Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto) finalized a new research MOU for intl. collaboration and joint projects, including a proposed SSHRC PDG on best practices in public archaeology with Brian Thom, Corey Noxon, and Shaun Canute. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Some projects in Anthropology track across decades, subfields, and disciplines. In 1994, Brian Thom was a grad student excavating Ye'yumnuts - land then slated for development. Today, thanks to Cowichan Tribes, it is a protected Wildlife Management Area. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Welcome to Anthropology, Dzifa Dordunoo, PhD, RN Dr. Dordunoo brings over 20 years of clinical experience and 15 years of teaching from institutions including Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland, and UVic’s School of Nursing. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Indigenous Archaeological sites in BC are not 'misfortunes'. My op-ed about the again-delayed reforms to the Heritage Conservation Act looks to Japan for inspiration in protecting and caring for Indigenous archaeological places. @uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Dr Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social of @uvicanthro.bsky.social weighs in on the current controversies in BC Archaeological practice and offers a useful comparison to Japanese practice 🏺🇯🇵 #archaeology www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Dr. Dordunoo has a recently published article, "Systemic barriers to donation for African, Caribbean and Black communities: A qualitative key informant study," in the journal of Transfusion Medicine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Think Global, Link Local 2026 - Invitation from the United Nations Association in Canada-Vancouver - March 6th Visit the TGLL 2026 website (www.global2local.ca) to learn more

Dr Tatiana Degai "My work is connected to cultural memory and reclamation of cultural landscapes. I do this through Indigenous storywork approach and creative research practices where I use language, art and stories to talk about all Itelmen relationships. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Dr. Brian Thom was quoted in an interview with the Vancouver Sun and Times Colonist this week about the delays to the long-anticipated and needed reforms to the BC Heritage Conservation Act tinyurl.com/4t57kpe7 tinyurl.com/yckf9wh8 @b-thom.bsky.social @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

April Nowell interviewed on the world’s oldest rock art—a 68,000 year old handprint from Sulawasi (Indonesia) www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/21/w... #anthropology @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #rockart

Congratulations to Dr. William Campbell who successfully defended his #PhD dissertation on Friday! @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social Dr. Sharon Fortney, Senior Curator of Indigenous Collections, Engagement and Repatriation at MOV, will present on the day to day work of decolonizing a civic museum. Join us, Monday, January 19th, 2026 11:30 am – 12:45 pm COR B235

Anthropology Undergrad Advising Clinic @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

This is today! 11:15 at Cinecenta Films Student Union Building 3800 Finnerty Road University of Victoria Victoria, BC V8P 5C2 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered why human bodies and health look so different from one person to the next? @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

“Even though, ostensibly, this paper is about hunting technology, it’s actually about our knowledge of plants, and that, for me, is what’s exciting,” says April Nowell about the use of poison arrows in South Africa about 60,000 years ago tinyurl.com/3utkpnrk @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Back in the Boé, Guinea-Bissau after a long journey with two of GAB lab's finest! Happy to see many familiar faces. Thanks @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for the funding to make this happen!

On Jan 12, join us for a screening of Elvel followed by a conversation with its core team of creators. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #storytelling

The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme digital repository (British Museum) is now live. Led by Ann B. Stahl & Zonke Guddah, it documents basketry, mat-making, traditional doors, and earthen building. 900+ open-access resources. tinyurl.com/5dksxfsv @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social @uvic.ca

Dr. Ann Stahl (ANTH emeriti/adjunct professor) on the shifting direction of the Banda project in the African Archaeological Review titled "From “Studying Prehistory” to “Making History” to “Co-creating Heritage”: Reflections on a Journey" tinyurl.com/yc2cpb48 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

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americananthro.org/event/aes-20... #anthropology @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social This conference invites scholars to reflect on experiment as both object and mode of anthropological inquiry. How do anthropologists collaborate, compose, and critique in experimental ways?

UVic Anthropology's April Nowell was interviewed for this story on Neanderthals making fire using pyrite in the UK 400,000 yrs ago: www.livescience.com/archaeology/... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #Neanderthals

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Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social interviewed by CKNW-AM about treaty land claims. open.spotify.com/episode/68Y5... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

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@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology Today, November 24, 2025 at 11:30 am. Cornett B235 Transformation in Sámi Indigenous salmon fishing community Aslat Holmberg: Sami fishermen, former president of Saami council and current chair of Sami central association of Finland.

🇲🇽Mexico Ethnographic Field School 2026 🇲🇽 Application deadline extended: December 1, 2025 Visit our website for more details and link to the application. tinyurl.com/jj8fcdm6 If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Mélissa Gauthier at [email protected] @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to our PhD student Graydon Smith on his peer-reviewed article titled "The Art of (Re-)Making Ruins: Between the Cracks of Cuban Media of Precarity". www.corajournal.com/issue-3/the-... #anthropology @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

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Pucker up! Dr. April Nowell commented on the evolutionary origin of kissing for Live Science's new article "Kissing goes back 21 million years, to the common ancestor of humans and other large apes, study finds" tinyurl.com/3mc6kfjc @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #kissing

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Today at 11:30! Cornett B235! @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

My first time participating in CABA-ACAB, and I had a wonderful experience meeting so many great researchers! Thank you for the opportunity to share our project on sequencing approaches for studying the gut microbiome of wild howler monkeys🐒🦠Huge thanks to the organizers at @uvicanthro.bsky.social

🚨 New issue alert! Anthropologica Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) is out now. #Infrastructure is no longer invisible. This issue traces the stories, timelines, and tensions embedded in #Canada’s roads, grids, and extractive projects. 🔗 buff.ly/pPmrwX6 #Anthropology #ClimateJustice

Congratulations to Dr. April Nowell and her team, whose work at Koonalda Cave in southern Australia made the cover of Current World Archaeology magazine. www.world-archaeology.com/features/koo... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

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Congratulations to our alum, Mike Graeme (BA' 2018 in ANTH & ES) on winning the 2025 Webster Award for Excellence in Community Reporting for his article: indiginews.com/features/not... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the students convocating this week. Thank you to those who chose #anthropology as their degree. Interview with Jennifer Preece, Anthropology major/Indigenous Studies minor grad who walked across the stage today. tinyurl.com/5xzxjb77 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

First time organizing a primatology session on behavioral flexibility in the Anthropocene, let alone first time organizing a conference! Easy to do with supportive co-organizers @uvicanthro.bsky.social, excellent volunteers and the wonderful CABA-ACAB community! @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Monday, November 17, 2025 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Cornett B235 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

We are now accepting applications for the Mexico Ethnographic Field School 2026. Info here: tinyurl.com/2w2kkxm8 If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Dr. Melissa Gauthier at [email protected] @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #fieldschool #summer

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www.livescience.com/archaeology/... April Nowell comments @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art: www.newscientist.com/article/2501... April Nowell comments: “You only maintain a point on a crayon if you want to make precise lines or designs,” @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #neanderthals #anthropology