Anthropology

A language creator writes their own language.

UBC hosts conlanging documentary and panel discussion

By Patty Wellborn on October 24, 2018

The art of creating languages, yes it is a thing, will be explained at a special event in Kelowna next week.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Anthropology, Community Culture and Global Studies, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

Actor Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson plays Tau, father to the main character in Alpha. He describes the language Schreyer created as “something built with knowledge and craftsmanship.”

UBC Okanagan linguist creates language for Hollywood film Alpha

By Patty Wellborn on August 23, 2018

Like the crisp, white vista of frozen tundra, Christine Schreyer was given a blank canvas when it came to creating the dialogue for Alpha, a Hollywood historical drama released just last week.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged Anthropology, Community Culture and Global Studies, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

More than 1,650 students will receive their degrees at UBC’s Okanagan campus this week.

More than 1,650 students graduate from UBC Okanagan this week

By Nathan Skolski on June 5, 2017

For many, it’s one of the biggest milestones of their lives—graduating from university. At UBC’s Okanagan campus, nearly 1,650 students will reach that milestone this week as the university gears up for six convocation ceremonies.

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UBC researchers Matt Husain and Karina Osswald

Globalization partly to blame for quality of education in the Global South

By Patty Wellborn on December 21, 2016

The development of education as a business can lead to over-worked faculty and poorly-trained students, a UBC study has determined.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Anthropology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

UBC professor Christine Schreyer, (second from right) has combined her passion for restoring languages with her Hollywood connections. While working on her new documentary, she brought film director Britton Watkins, cinematographer Josh Feldman together with Nicole Gordon and Louise Gordon with the Taku River Tlingit.

UBC anthropologist helps create documentary on the art of language construction

By Patty Wellborn on July 28, 2016

A UBC professor is combining her love of languages, and her Hollywood connections, to help create a new documentary film.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Anthropology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Research

Anwar Hossen, a PhD candidate at UBC's Okanagan campus, has received the 2010 Jawaharlal Nehru Humanitarian Award. The award is given each year by the Centre for India and South Asia Research, part of the Institute for Asian Research at UBC's Vancouver campus.

UBC grad student recognized for water governance research in South Asia

By Jody Jacob on January 5, 2011

The Centre for India and South Asia Research has awarded the 2010 Nehru Humanitarian Award to doctoral student M. Anwar Hossen...

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Anthropology, Learning | 3 Responses

UBC professor Naomi McPherson next editor-in-chief of Anthropologica

By Bud Mortenson on December 17, 2010

Naomi McPherson, associate professor of anthropology at UBC's Okanagan campus, has been named the next editor-in-chief of Anthropologica, the Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society. McPherson will succeed current editor-in-chief Andrew Lyons, professor emeritus of anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University. In making the announcement, the executive board of the Canadian Anthropology Society described McPherson as […]

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UBC professor wins Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award

By Bud Mortenson on December 10, 2010

Anthropology Professor Diana French, acting head of the Community, Culture and Global Studies Unit at UBC's Okanagan campus, has won Public Anthropology’s Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award. Named to honour the 20th century's "First Lady of the World," the award recognizes French's exceptionally effective participation in Public Anthropology’s Community Action Online Project, as well as […]

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Anthropology

Student researcher Chara DeVolder visited remote Papua New Guinea villages to help preserve endangered Indigenous languages.

Putting it in writing

By Jody Jacob on October 8, 2010

Chara DeVolder is helping preserve an Indigenous language by putting it into written form for the first time.

Posted in News Features | Tagged Anthropology, Papua New Guinea, UBC Reports