We are pleased to announce the winners of CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes. Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer les gagnants des Prix d'affiches étudiantes 2019 de la CASCA : People’s Choice Award / Coup de cœur du public : Nakeyah Giroux-Works…
By Martha Radice, Dalhousie University and Visiting Scholar, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University I left my field site in New Orleans very quickly. On Mardi Gras day, February 25, I was one of many thousands of…
By Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan Two days before I was scheduled to teach a graduate class on campus, I received a message from my colleague and the primary teacher for the course. He had been sent home to quarantine.…
By Maggie Cummings, University of Toronto Scarborough In mid-March, like instructors of face-to-face classes across Canada, I found myself making the abrupt and rather ad hoc transition to online teaching. I began to spend a lot more time reading administrative…
By James Depew, Algoma University & David Burty, Western University For capitalism to work at full speed it needs bodies entering into interaction with clock-like regularity. Now that the virus has transformed space through the requirement of social distancing, the…
By Mirjana Uzelac, University of Alberta I was ten years old when I faced my first apocalypse. It was 1991, and the war had started in Yugoslavia. It seemed like the end of the world. I lived in Serbia, and…
By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, University of Guam On January 21, I flew from Taipei to Guåhan (Guam) to begin field research with the CHamoru, the Indigenous people of that unincorporated US territory.[1] Even as Taiwan…
By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is sweeping headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, risk factors, and public health responses are updated with unprecedented frequency. Most anthropologists in Canada are experiencing the rapidly changing pandemic from multiple locations, including…
By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) We live in gripping and uncertain times. People around the world have been through several watershed moments over the past six months. But these…
By Nicolas Rasiulis, McGill University Spring Equinox, 2020, two days before my previously anticipated departure for Mongolia to conduct the majority of my PhD fieldwork. I recently vacated my apartment-become-home in Montréal, and established a transitory domus “back home” in…