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Volume 9, Issue 01

September 2014

Anthropology

(and ANTH) courses that are being offered in Anthropology.

We would like to warmly welcome Dr. Wade Davis, Dr. Mark Turin, and Dr. Sara Shneiderman

to our Department. Dr. Davis, a celebrated explorer and writer, will be teaching Anthropology

100, Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology, and Anthropology 495, Sacred Geographies,

this term. Dr. Turin is Chair of the First Nations Languages Program at UBC and will be teaching

courses in that program as well as in Anthropology. Dr. Shneiderman will formally join the

Department in January and will begin teaching courses in September 2015.

Congratulations also to Dr. Leslie Robertson and Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann on being granted tenure

and on being promoted to Associate Professor!

Best wishes to all instructors and students for all your studies and research in the coming

year!

Welcome back to students, faculty

and staff. Many of you will have

noticed a change in the course

abbreviations for Archaeology

courses this year from the

previous ANTH courses to ARCL.

The new ARCL courses provide a

distinctive identity for archaeology

courses while also meeting the

same requirements as the previous

ANTH archaeology courses,

including credits towards a major

in Anthropology. Help us spread

the word about the great ARCL

Dr. Susan Rowley Department Co-Head

Dr. Patrick Moore Department Co-Head

Welcome Message from the Department Co-Heads 1

Welcome 2014-2015 Academic Year 2

Department Events 2

Important Dates 3

Committee Assignments 6

Congratulations 7

Graduate Program Competition Announcements

SSHRC, Affiliated, Vanier & Trudeau 10

Announcements 12

Presentations 13

Publications 14

Media Coverage 16

I N T H I S I S S U E :

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Welcome 2014-2015 Academic Year Welcome back Faculty Members, Sessionals, Post Docs, Associates, Visiting Professors and Staff. Welcome to our incoming Graduate and Undergraduate Students. Welcome back to our Graduate and Undergraduate Students. Please welcome Georgia Filippopouloa, our new Undergraduate Student Association (ASA) President for 2014 - 2015. Please welcome Steffan Gordon, Martina Volfova, our new Graduate Student Association (AGSA) Co-Presidents for 2014 - 2015.

Department Events

2nd September, Tuesday Departmental Student orientations and Imagine UBC Day

9:30-11AM, Anso 2107 Departmental Orientation for New Graduate Students (Mandatory Attendance) 11:00-1:00 PM, Anso 134 Department Orientation Session for TAs & Instructors (Mandatory Attendance) 11:30-1:00 PM, Anso 207 Imagine UBC Day: Undergraduate Anthropology Fair 1:00-2:30 PM, ANSO Community Garden/Courtyard Anth BBQ Lunch 2:30 PM, Anso lounge Grad to Grad Informal Session

5:00 PM, Wolf and Hound Post-orientation “Pub Meet and Greet”3617 West Broadway (Between Dunbar & Alma) click this for directions http://www.wolfandhound.ca/index.html

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Friday, September 12th (details TBA)

Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson Founder and Director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson has degrees in Linguistics from Harvard (A.B. 1989) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 2000). He formerly taught in the Linguistics Departments at University of Manchester (UK) and at University of Oregon. He also served as lead scientist on the Enduring Voices project, a joint venture between Living Tongues and National Geographic Society where he served as a Fellow of the Society from 2007-2013. He currently holds a Research Fellowship at University of South Africa (UNISA). Dr. Anderson has authored eleven books and approximately one hundred peer-reviewed studies. He has published widely in the fields of historical linguistics, descriptive grammar, morphology, verb typology, and the linguistics of Munda, Salishan, Ogonoid, Turkic, Tibeto-Burman, and Nilo-Saharan languages and many other language families. Dr. Anderson has conducted fieldwork and training sessions for indigneous language activists on every continent, having pioneered the development of multi-media Talking Dictionaries for over 80 languages to date. He was also the subject (along with his Living Tongues Institute colleague David Harrison) of the critically acclaimed film The Linguists by Ironbound Films. He is well known for his 2006 book Auxiliary Verb Constructions from Oxford University Press where he established a new typology of auxiliary verb constructions. He is currently completing a book entitled Language Extinction: The Real Threat to Linguistic Diversity in the 21st Century to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Greg Anderson and colleague Dr. Ganesh Murmu working with Mrs. Abamo Degio, speaker of Koro Aka and Miji (Sajolang) in Yangse village, East Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Photo by Dr. K. David Harrison, permission of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.

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Congratulations Kamal Arora Recipient of the Dr. Lakhbir K. Jassal Graduate Travel Award Millie Creighton Awarded a Humanities and Social Science (HSS) grant of $2,000 to make an international invited conference presentation in Jerusalem, Israel for the conference 'Cultural Geography of the Hallyu: Mapping the World through Korean Popular Culture,' May 13-15, 2014. Evan Koike Awarded the N.H. Benson International Graduate Award for the 2014 Summer Session, and monetary prize of $250. William McKellin Appointed as Associate Chair of the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board Shaylih Muehlmann Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor Leslie Robertson Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor The book of Leslie A Robertson received the following wards: Leslie A Robertson with the Kwagu’ł Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012 2014 Hilda Neatby Book Prize in Women’s and Gender History. Canadian Historical Association, (May). 2013 American Association of University Presses, ‘Exemplary Title,’(November). 2013 Finalist, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize, Province of British Columbia, (May). Michael Shepard Recipient of the UBC Anthropology PhD Writing Award 2014, who will be receiving $6,000.00. Rafael Wainer Recipient of the UBC Anthropology PhD Writing Award 2014, who will be receiving $6,000.00.

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Graduate Program: Competition Announcements Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC Graduate Scholarships (PhD level) & Affiliated Scholarships (PhD level)

I. SSHRC Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGSD)

All applicants MUST use the web-based application system to apply. Applicants must then print off, sign, and submit to the Anth Graduate Office the completed final version of the application, including transcripts and other attachments. The deadline by which applications for Doctoral-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) by September 22nd, Monday, before 4pm The deadline by which applications for Master's-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) TBA (most likely be December 1st, Monday) For more details, please check: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/sshrc-graduate-scholarships SSHRC FAQ/Help with Online Forms: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/forms-formulaires/help_forms-aide_formulaires-eng.aspx

II. UBC Doctoral AFFILIATED FELLOWSHIPS

All students regardless of citizenship are eligible to apply. Canadian citizens and permanent residents are required to apply for graduate scholarship funding from CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC, if they are eligible to do so.

Applicants submit their application materials to the Anth Graduate Office. Please note that students who submit a Tri-Agency (CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC) award application to the Anth Graduate Office are also automatically considered for Affiliated Fellowship funding, and do not need to submit a separate Affiliated Fellowship application.

The deadline by which applications for Doctoral-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) by September 22nd, Monday, before 4pm

The deadline by which applications for Master's-level funding must be submitted to the Anth Graduate Office (ANSO 2124) TBA (most likely be December 1st, Monday) For more details, please check: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships

III. VANIER Canada Graduate Scholarships Congratulations Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields.

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Domestic and international students are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier Scholarship, which is valued at $50,000 per year for up to three years. The deadline for applicants to submit applications on ResearchNet is 11:59pm (Vancouver time) on Tuesday, 9 September, 2014. To apply, applicants must do the following by the deadline noted below:

1. Notify the Anthropology Graduate office, c/o Eleanore (anth.grad@ubc.ca) if you intend to apply for the Vanier Scholarship.

2. Provide official transcripts for all post-secondary studies up to August 31, 2014. transcripts are to be submitted to the Anthropology Graduate office (ANSO 2124) the applicant must confirm with Eleanore via email which transcripts you will use/will

provide to support the Vanier application, and which transcripts the applicant must still provide to the Anthropology Graduate Office

if the applicant needs to provide any transcripts in support of their Vanier application, the ANTH graduate office must receive the original, official transcripts in a sealed envelope from the issuing institution by September 10th, Wednesday, before 4pm, Anso 2124

3. Request letters of support from three referees two letters from referees assessing the applicant's academic excellence, research potential

and demonstrated and potential leadership ability are submitted electronically through ResearchNet by the referee

the Leadership Reference Letter is provided to the applicant, who uploads the letter to his or her electronic application file

applicants should provide potential referees with the Vanier selection criteria guidelines For full details, please see our website at http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/vanier-scholarship.

IV. TRUDEAU Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Candidates must be applying into the first year of a PhD at UBC, or be registered in the first or second year of a PhD at UBC. Although priority will be accorded to Canadian citizens and landed immigrants, up to one fourth of the total number of Trudeau Scholars may be international students (preference will be given to international students from the developing world). For interested doctoral students, please submit your applications to the Anth Graduate Office (Anso 2124) before 4:00 pm October 6, 2014 (Monday). For application, please see the Graduate Awards website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship For more information about the Trudeau Foundation, please see their website: http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/en/programs/scholarships

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Announcements

children find themselves in despite their limited and largely informal access to minority schools. My focus on ruins as not mere remnants of the past but as presently embodied states also seeks to explore how the denial of genocide induces melancholy and impedes mourning in the national education system to which Armenian children in Turkey both without and with formal citizenship are exposed.

Dr. Ayşe Parla (Cultural Studies/European Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul, currently Peter Wall International Visiting Research Scholar) Dr. Parla has written on state-authorized virginity examinations in Turkey as modern forms of surveillance of young women’s honor; the appropriation of Bulgarian Turkish migrants as refugees and ethnic kin in 1989 and the subsequent marginalization of post-1990s migrants from Bulgaria as part of the cheap informal labor force. She has published on questions of migration, citizenship, labor and ethnicity in various journals including Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; American Ethnologist; Citizenship Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Differences; and International Migration. As a visiting scholar at Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study, she is pursuing the current impediments to Armenian migrant children's access to education in Turkey within a broad historical perspective on minority education from the Ottoman Empire throughout the Republic nation-state.

Abstract: Taking my cue from the recent interest in 'ruins' as indexing both

physical and social states of ruination, this talk will examine the

historical and contemporary links between, on the one hand,

physically abandoned buildings in Istanbul that were once

Armenian minority schools, and on the other hand, the different

states of social abandonment undocumented Armenian migrant

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Presentations Millie Creighton 2014 'Korea-Japan Relations Through the Hallyu Looking Glass: Assessing the Korean Wave's Transnational Flows of Popular Culture, People as Tourists, and Political Contestations' at an International Conference on Korean Popular Transnational Culture held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, on May 15, 2014. Millie Creighton 2014 'Continuing Influence of the Korean Wave on Japan-Korea Relations: From Japanese Tourism to Korea to Interface with Korean Sites in Japan at the invited and travel funded World Association of Hallyu (Korean Popular Culture) Studies conference held in Pusan, Korea on August 2, 2014. Millie Creighton 2014Cchaired the panel entitled, 'Hallyu in Asia (Hallyu means Korean Transnational Popular Culture) at the invited/funded World Association of Hallyu (Korean Popular Culture) Studies conference held in Pusan, Korea on August 2, 2014. Bill McKellin 2014 Presenter and discussant for in a panel: Clinical and Translational Research through the Lens of Qualitative and Non-Categorical Measures. In The Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014. Collet, Jean-Paul, Louise C. Mâsse, William H. McKellin, Anton R Miller, Christopher Bertram, Rollin Brant, Mojgan Gitimoghaddam, Annette Majnemer, and Jonathan Weiss 2014 To Improve Quality of Life and Functioning of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: Moving toward Activity-Based Personalized Interventions In The Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014. Gitimoghaddam, M., W.H. McKellin, A.R. Miller, A. Majnemer, J. Weiss, V. Symington, R.L. Wishart, L.C. Mâsse, and J.P. Collet 2014 Evaluation of a Multi-Level Gymnastic-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Children and Youth with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (CYNDs): Preliminary Results In The Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014. Jaggumantri, Sravan, William McKellin, Sylvia Stockler, Clara van Karnebeek, and Jean-Paul Collet 2014 Personalized Evaluation Model for Making Informed Decisions in Treatments for Individuals with Intellectual Disability. In the Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the

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International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference. Montreal. July 19-24, 2014. Collet, Jean-Paul, and William McKellin 2014 Personalized Evidence of Treatment Effects for the Practice of Personalized Medicine. In Advances in Pediatrics, BC Children's Hospital. Vancouver, BC Leslie Robertson 2014 ‘Decolonizing Ancestry: Collaborations with the Other Side of History?’ Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto, (23 May). Leslie Robertson 2014 (With Terre Satterfield), ‘Reasserting ‘Namgis Food Sovereignty Or, Three Boats and a Truck.’ Musqueam 101, Musqueam First Nation Elder’s Centre, Vancouver, BC. (2 April). Leslie Robertson 2013 ‘Intangibles, Measurement and Metrics and the Cultural Implications of Environmental Change.’ Canadian Congress Meetings, University of Victoria, BC. (4 June). (Co-authored with T. Satterfield) Leslie Robertson 2013 ‘Colonial Memory in Alert Bay: Kwakwaka'wakw Conversations with the Past.’ Brownbag Lecture, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY. (8 May). Leslie Robertson 2013 ‘Some Risks and Rewards of Co-Labour in Research.’ BC Studies Conference, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC. (2 May).

Publications

Kirsten Bell 2014 Resisting commensurability: Against informed consent as an anthropological virtue. American Anthropologist 116(3) (early view form). DOI: 10.1111/aman.12122 Kirsten Bell 2014 Breast vs. the rest: a response to Koczwara and Ward. Social Science and Medicine (early view form). DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.007 Kirsten Bell 2014 Random reflections on getting published. Vitae, 14 July 2014, https://chroniclevitae.com/news/606-random-reflections-on-getting-published

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Kirsten Bell 2014 Must love dogs. PopAnth: Hot-Buttered Humanity, 7 July 2014, http://popanth.com/article/must-love-dogs/ Kirsten Bell and Amy Salmon 2014 Pain, physical dependence, and pseudoaddiction: Redefining addiction for ‘nice’ people? In The American Drug Scene: Readings in a Global Context. 7th edition. James A. Inciardi & Karen McElrath, eds. Pp. 50-161. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Millie Creighton 2014 'Emergent Japanese Discourses on Minorities, Race, Culture, and Identity.' Global Ethnographic, volume 2014, issue 2, pp. 1-30.

Bir Bahadur Thami and Laxmi Basukala, edited by Mark Turin. 2014. Niko Thangmi Kham : Kaksha Nis (Our Thangmi Language : Class Two). Kathmandu: Educate the Children. Mother tongue primer for Thangmi-speaking children. 60 pages. Gurung, Om, Tamang, Mukta Singh and Mark Turin 2014. Perspectives on Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Nepal. Kathmandu: Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. ISBN 9789937524506. Mark Turin 2014. ‘Mother Tongues and Language Competence: The Shifting Politics of Linguistic Belonging in the Himalayas’ Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self: Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action. Edited by Toffin, G. and Pfaff-Czarnecka, J. Sage Publications. Delhi. Vol. 5, pp. 371-396. Mark Turin 2014. ‘From Ancient Nepal to Digital Himalaya: Meditations on History, Technology and Access’ Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi. Edited by Lewis, T. and B.M. Owens. Social Science Baha and Himal Books. Kathmandu. pp. 367-378. Mark Turin 2014. ‘Book review’ (review of Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language: English-Great Andamanese-Hindi by Anvita Abbi) Indian Linguistics, Vol. 74 (3-4) 2013: 149-153. Mark Turin 2014.‘Nepal’s recent history on pdf’ Nepali Times. Issue 700, 28 March–3 April, p. 4. Mark Turin 2014 ‘Orality and Technology, or the Bit and the Byte: The Work of the World Oral Literature Project’ Oral Tradition, 28/2 (2013):173-186.

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Media Coverages

Mark Turin 2014 Featured presenter for BBC Radio 4 series The Listeners, broadcast on Tuesday 5 August, 2014, and rebroadcast Monday 11 August. Program was selected as ‘Pick of the Week’ and ‘Editors Choice’ in five British broadsheet newspapers, and was widely covered and reviewed on social media. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cc1sq> Mark Turin 2014 Q & A with Mark Turin in UBC’s ArtsWire, 2 July 2014: http://wire.arts.ubc.ca/featured/renowned-linguist-mark-turin-to-helm-ubc-first-nations-languages-program/. Mark Turin 2014Wrote the program notes for Julia Cho’s ‘The Language Archive’ performed by St Michael’s Players in London, July 2014. http://stmichaelsplayers.weebly.com

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