Lessons Learned in Online Summer School
This May & June I taught three summer session courses: Intro to Cultural Anthropology [ANTH 100, 120 students], Contemporary First Nations Issues Canada [ANTH 329, 145 students], and…
This May & June I taught three summer session courses: Intro to Cultural Anthropology [ANTH 100, 120 students], Contemporary First Nations Issues Canada [ANTH 329, 145 students], and…
“Another one bites the dust,” a colleague quipped. They were responding to news that Michael Korenberg, chair of the University of British Columbia (UBC) board of governors, had…
June 26, 2020. Auto transcribed with ‘happyscribe.’ Minor corrections and edits made but what you see is mostly what the machine did. Some modifications to clarify the text were…
Online shaming has become a popular sport -or, if you rather, tactic- for many across the political spectrum. The effects can be devastating for the objects of this…
It’s amazing how quickly things can change in a few days. On March 11 one of my students asked if I thought the university was shutting down. I’d…
Anthropologists have a mixed legacy of complicity with colonial powers and support for pro-local progressivism. Both strains of anthropology share a desire to travel among ‘othered’ peoples. …
At the University of British Columbia all non-essential and non-COVID-19 research has been ‘curtailed’ by the university (link). There is a specific prohibition on in person resea…
We are Faculty of Arts teaching staff who are concerned about the UBCV Provost’s decision to continuing holding student evaluations of teaching (SEoTs) “as usual” this term. There…