Announcements
The Centre for Sensory Studies is pleased to announce the sixth installment in the Uncommon Senses conference series. Uncommon Senses VI: Sensory Aesthetics, Prosthetics, Politics, and Intelligence will run from May 5-8, 2027. The conference will have both in-person and online streams. Past Uncommon Senses conferences have attracted over 300 registered participants. We hope to equal those numbers this time round.
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CASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Alyson Stone (University of British Columbia) has received the Medical Anthropology Network (CMA) Best Paper Award for her Anthropologica article, “Chemotherapy Bells and Liminality in Advanced Cancer Care.” Drawing on fieldwork in a Canadian cancer hospital, the article examines how the end-of-chemotherapy bell-ringing ritual sits uneasily with the…
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by Ritu Verma, Carleton University. Joachim Voss 1947-2026 An eminent scholar of Central Africa and Southeast Asia, he also served many years in distinguished international leadership roles. Joachim Voss, past Director General of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and past Head of Research of the International Development Research Center, whose research and leadership expanded…
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Dear CASCA members, The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018 and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval, where she taught for more than 30 years. Since 1982, she has (co)authored and (co)edited nine books on gender, migration, and mobility…
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Emma Varley’s reflection on CASCA Presents’ third instalment Located at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Fiona P. McDonald’s Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab operates as a space in which ethnographers can pursue collaborative inquiry, whether in-person or virtually, through use of a diverse suite of technologically mediated tools. Key to the lab’s success is…
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CASCA Presents a discussion between Monica Heller (University of Toronto, and CASCA President 2023-2024) and Francine Saillant (Laval University, 2021 Weaver-Tremblay Award recipient) about the latter’s ANTHROPEN initiative (in collaboration with several colleagues). This initiative is a tool aimed at democratizing and opening up the production of knowledge in French-language anthropology. Discover this innovative format…
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Welcome to the inaugural post of “CASCA Presents”, the newest initiative of the Canadian Anthropology Society! In a curated and multi-modal way, “CASCA Presents” promotes members’ scholarship, advocacy, and activism: CASCA’s membership exemplifies the very best of Canadian anthropology. Our community is richly and diversely populated by scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists, whose work speaks…
Read MoreAnthropologists from across Canada who volunteer their time to steward the association.
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
President
Alex Oehler
President-Elect
Liesl Gambold
Past President
Carole Therrien
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Lindsay Bell
Treasurer
Sarah Yems
Communications Officer
Chantal White
Francophone Member at Large
Sarah Shulist
Anglophone Member at Large
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