October 21, 2025
CASCA Presents
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
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…
+ Read MoreJuly 24, 2025
CASCA Presents
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 MoreJune 6, 2025
Culture
We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of Culture, CASCA’s biannual and bilingual electronic newsletter. This issue takes up the theme of our annual conference “Confluences”, held at McGill University in Montreal from May 7 to 10, 2025. This issue features one original article by our members, Helene Demers, addressing the theme of…
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CASCA Presents
by Lindsay Bell, Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology (University of Toronto) During my fieldwork on the impacts of diamond mining in sub-arctic Canada, I lived in “Mackenzie Place”, a seventeen-story tower that presides over the center of Hay River (Xátł’odehchee) in the Northwest Territories. Known locally as simply “the High Rise”, the building was for decades…
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Uncategorized
Dear CASCA members, Please join us in congratulating Etni Zoe Castell Roldán, PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, from Dalhousie University, who has been awarded the 2025 Richard F. Salisbury Award, given each year to an outstanding PhD candidate, enrolled at a Canadian university, for the purposes of defraying expenses incurred while carrying out dissertation fieldwork. The award is named in…
+ Read MoreFebruary 17, 2025
Announcements
Are you a graduate student in Canada (or are you supervising graduate students with whom you can share this notice), whose work takes a feminist perspective and engages with gender issues? Then please consider submitting your CASCA paper to be considered for the Women’s Network Graduate Student Prize for this year’s conference. Graduate students in…
+ Read MoreJanuary 8, 2025
Announcements
The deadline for submissions for the 2025 CASCA Conference (May 7-10, 2025 in Montreal) is extended to January 24, 2025. The 2025 conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society inaugurates the association’s second half century by inviting reflections on confluences. The conference invites contributions, in the form of research papers, panels and roundtables that…
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