Colloquium series
The colloquium (ANTH 612) is a lecture series which presents current research in anthropology. Hear from local and international researchers as well as our current PhD candidates.
Attendance is mandatory for anthropology PhD students. All students, faculty and the public are welcome to attend.
Our talks are held in person in Cornett B235 starting at 11:30 (unless listed otherwise).
Please email to be added to the colloquia mailing list.
Upcoming colloquia
September 22, 2025
: Tsawout master artist
Dr. Tommy Happynook: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UVic
Dr. Andrea Walsh: Associate professor, Smyth Chair in Arts & Engagement, Department of Anthropology, UVic
September 29, 2025 - for graduate students only
Meeting with Speakers committee and PhD Students
October 6, 2025 - Landsdowne speaker
: Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, USA
- October 7, 2025 - Landsdowne lecture - 5:00 pm, David Strong C118, : Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, USA
October 13, 2025 - no colloquium - University closed (Thanksgiving)
October 20, 2025
Title TBA
: PhD Candidate, Kiel University, Germany
October 27, 2025
3D imaging technologies and public engagement [in Japan]
: Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
November 3, 2025
Title TBA
: Killam Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UBC
November 10, 2025 - no colloquium - University closed (Reading break)
November 17, 2025
Community-led research in the Arctic - Indigenous guests from Greenland
Speakers TBA
November 24, 2025
Title TBA
: Yup’ik visual artist
December 1, 2025
Title TBA
Rochelle Bloom: PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, UVic
January 5, 2026
Elvel movie screening & discussion
Dr. Tatiana Degai: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UVic
Liam Campbell: MA student, Department of Anthropology, UVic
January 12, 2026 - for graduate students only
Career workshop for graduate students
January 19, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
January 26, 2026 - for graduate students only
Library Workshop for Graduate Students
Tina Bebbington: Social Sciences librarian, UVic
February 2, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
February 9, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
February 16, 2026 - no colloquium - University closed (Family day)
February 23, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
March 2, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
March 9, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
March 16, 2026
Title TBA
Speaker TBA
March 23, 2026
Title TBA
Polina Syadeyskaya: PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UVic
March 30, 2026
Title TBA
: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Tulsa, USA
Past colloquia
September 15, 2025 - for graduate students only
The Art of Proposal Writing - workshop for graduate students
Dr. Daromir Rudnycky: Professor & graduate advisor, Department of Anthropology, UVic
September 8, 2025 - meet in courtyard of David Turpin Building
Loreisa Lepine: UVic’s Inaugural Land Steward
Drew Elves: UVic’s Eco-Cultural Steward
March 31, 2025
Dr. Dzifa Dordunoo: Associate Professor, School of Nursing, UVic
March 24, 2025
Dr. Paul Bramadat: Professor and Director, History and Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, UVic
March 17, 2025
Dr. Rachel Brown: Program & Research Coordinator, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, UVic & Assistant Teaching Professor, Anthropology & Religion, Culture and Society Program, UVic
March 10, 2025
Dylan Hillis: PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UVic
February 24, 2025
Dr. Timothy Knowlton: Associate Fellow, Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, UVic
February 10, 2025
Dr. Elizabeth Peterson: Director, Indigenous Collections & Repatriation, RBCM
February 3, 2025
Hayalthkin’geme Carey Newman (Impact Chair, Visual Arts)
ḥapinyuuk Tommy Happynook (Anthropology)
Andrea Walsh (Smyth Chair Arts & Engagement, Anthropology)
January 20, 2025
: President, Vancouver Island Local History Society
January 13, 2025 - online via
: Calista Education and Culture, Anchorage, AK
December 2, 2024
Movie screening - this film is 90 minutes in length
November 25, 2024
Researching the living past: Discovering past occurrences through conversational inquiry
Dr. Francois Bastien, Assistant Professor; Academic Director, MBA Advancing Reconciliation, Gustavson School of Business, UVic
November 18, 2024
, Gerstner Postdoctoral Scholar, American Museum of Natural History
Different Location - Ceremonial hall - First Peoples House
November 4, 2024
, Assistant Professor of Arctic Security Studies (Indigenous Peoples and Socioeconomics): School of Arctic and Climate Security Studies, Ted Stevens Center
October 21, 2024
, Maya Intercultural University of Quintana Roo, Mexico
- - "I am Maya (Sometimes): Fetishizing Mayaland": Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024, 2:30 pm, First Peoples House, Ceremonial Room
October 7, 2024 (online)
SSHRC workshop for grad students
Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj, Professor & graduate advisor, Department of Anthropology, UVic
September 23, 2024
, Professor, The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
September 16, 2024
, (CM, ONWT, MSC), former commissioner for Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission & Dr. Andrea Walsh, Associate professor, Smyth chair in arts & engagement, Department of Anthropology, UVic
September 9, 2024
Dr. Andrea Walsh, Associate professor, Smyth chair in arts & engagement, Department of Anthropology, UVic
April 9, 2024
At ȾEL¸IȽĆE with our PhD student Mavis Underwood
Mavis Underwood, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UVic
March 18, 2024
Zonke Guddah, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UVic
March 11, 2024
Joan Morris/Sellemah, Songhees Nation knowledge holder and Dr. Darcy Mathews, associate professor, Environmental Studies, UVic
March 4, 2024
Dr. Tatiana Degai, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, UVic
February 26, 2024
, honorary research fellow, University of Exeter
February 12, 2024 - via Zoom only
, post-doctoral research associate, Natural History Museum, London
February 5, 2024
Leah Mernaugh Bergman, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UVic
January 29, 2024 - CANCELLED (will be rescheduled)
Title: Story of Elvel: Return of the creation story and Itelmen language through multimedia storytelling
Dr. Tatiana Degai, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, UVic
January 22, 2024 - via Zoom only
, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University and affiliated faculty, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
January 15, 2024
: Center for support of Indigenous peoples of the North (CSIPN), International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) and Indigenous Women Biodiversity Network (IWBN)
January 8, 2024 - CANCELLED (will be rescheduled)
Building Earthen Architecture as a Heritage-making Process
Zonke Guddah, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UVic