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📚 New Faculty Publication! Dr. Amanda Wissler co-authored Death on the Permafrost, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The study highlights the devastating impact of the 1918-1920 flu on Alaska’s Indigenous populations. 💡 Article link in bio! #Anthropology

📢Speaker Series! 📢 This Friday, Dec. 6, is our final Speaker Series event for 2024! Archaeologist Jacquie Fisher will be speaking on How to Look at CRM Archaeology Through a Different Lens. Join us from 3:30-5:00 PM in LRW 1003.

🌍✨ How do spaces shape us? Join us for a thought-provoking talk featuring stories of place, memory, and connection—from Pokémon Go to DNA art, and more. 📅 Dec. 11, 7-9 PM 📍Fairweather Brewing Co. 🔗 Register here:

Learn more about the award and about her research at the link in our bio!

Her research explores the tension between self-care’s potential and its transformation in neoliberal environments, focusing on mental health challenges among Canadian university students.

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Loa Gordon! 🎉 Dr. Gordon, a recent PhD graduate from McMaster University, has won the AMHIG Graduate Student Paper Prize Award 2024 for her paper The Bubble-Bathification of Self-Care: Problematizing Possibilities for Restful Mental Health.

🌍✨ How do spaces shape us? Join us for a thought-provoking talk featuring stories of place, memory, and connection—from Pokémon Go to DNA art, and more. 📅 Dec. 11, 7-9 PM 📍Fairweather Brewing Co. 🔗 Register here:

📢Speaker Series! 📢 This Friday, Nov. 22, Dr. Paul Szpak is speaking about Andean llama husbandry. Join us from 3:30-5:00 PM in LRW 1003. Full schedule available here: https://t.co/vn5WLTzCKV

Reviews in Anthropology is looking to expand its pool of potential book reviewers. If interested, please follow and share this link https://t.co/4AnkmXiLss

📢Speaker Series! 📷 Join us Friday, Nov. 15 from 3:30-5:00 PM for Dr. Alex Khasnabish's upcoming presentation. Full schedule available here: https://t.co/vn5WLTzCKV @McMasterU @McMasterSocSci

Tomorrow night! Have. you grabbed your tickets yet?

📣 Public Talk!📣 Celebrate Hallowe'en with a dive into the anthropology of zombies, Andean mortuary practices, and vampire burials in Poland! Our next public talk @FairweatherBrew is next Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 7PM! Learn more and register to attend: https://t.co/IYBisL1wkq

📢Speaker Series!📢 Two Speaker Series talks are taking place this week, on Thursday and Friday! See below for details. Full schedule available here: https://t.co/vn5WLTzCKV @McMasterU @McMasterSocSci

📣 Public Talk!📣 Celebrate Hallowe'en with a dive into the anthropology of zombies, Andean mortuary practices, and vampire burials in Poland! Our next public talk @FairweatherBrew is next Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 7PM! Learn more and register to attend: https://t.co/IYBisL1wkq

Happening today at 3:30!

Tomorrow!

Have you read our 2024 Spring Newsletter? Find out the latest news at McMaster Anthropology - from mosquito detectives, to excellence in teaching, and more! https://t.co/KGdw92A5Mq

📢Speaker Series! 📢 **PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE** Join us Friday, Oct. 11 from 3:30-5:00 PM as we hear from McMaster Anthropology graduate, Dr. Myriam Nafte (PhD ’14). Full schedule available here: https://t.co/vn5WLTAaAt @McMasterU @McMasterSocSci

📢 Public Lecture! 📢 On Tuesday, October 8, @NouriGana will be giving the Annual Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on Nonviolence, entitled "Melancholy of the Oppressed." Join us in LR Wilson Concert Hall (LRW1048) from 1-3:00 PM! @McMasterGPSJ @McMasterCSMA