Anthropology Over Time
Patricia Shaw, Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Aleksa Alaica, Assistant Professor, Anthropology; Kelly Thomas, PhD Student, Anthropology, and a Resident Member of Green College
Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed
Thursday, April 10, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow
in the series
Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge
This series, co-hosted with UBC Emeritus College, brings together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have shifted over time. This final event in the series will stage a conversation between scholars of Anthropology. The moderator will ask the panelists a series of questions about their perspectives on the discipline, and the discussion will be opened at an early stage to members of the audience. The goal of the event is to grasp the interdisciplinary nexus that is "Anthropology" in Canadian and other universities and to peer into possible futures of the field.
Co-organized with UBC Emeritus College.
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This series will bring together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have changed over time. The conversation will inevitably lead to a consideration of cross-disciplinary influences and interdisciplinary trends, as participants account for changes in the cognitive strength of sub-disciplines and the rise and fall of disciplinary paradigms. The intent will be to identify underlying reasons for the observed changes and, by the end of the series, to draw some general conclusions about mechanisms of (inter)disciplinary interaction and development, in the spirit—if not necessarily the style—of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault.
Series Conveners: Emma Cunliffe, Green College and Law, UBC; Donald Fisher, UBC Emeritus College
Unless otherwise noted, all of our lectures are free to attend and do not require registration.
April 10, 2025
10:00 am to 11:30 am
Coach House
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd