Growing up sailing the South Pacific with his family, Bradley Clements learned the importance of communication between visitors and locals. The elements of mutual respect between his family and island inhabitants—learning about local culture and customs in real-world settings—stayed with Clements as a lifelong lesson.
Dynamic teaching is a cornerstone of our extraordinary academic environment at UVic. Recognizing that the translation of knowledge has transformed the role of teaching in an ever-shifting, multimedia world, the university has redoubled its commitment to honour outstanding teachers with a trio of new awards for 2016.
Exploring the meaning behind the geometric symbols on cave walls launched the research career of Genevieve von Petzinger, University of Victoria PhD candidate in anthropology, and won her recognition with a 2016 National Geographic Emerging Explorer award.
Twelve footprints were discovered by two UVic researchers, in April on Calvert Island on BC’s central coast, and preliminary findings indicate these footprints might be 13,200 years old.
Family gatherings around a fire pit—an ancient custom that’s still with us today—may have been practiced as long as 13,000 years ago along BC's central coast. Footprints from what appear to be a man, woman and child circling a hearth were found last month below the tideline.
University of Victoria PhD candidate Genevieve von Petzinger is the only Canadian on the distinguished list of 20 new international fellows at the TEDGlobal Conference 2011 next month in Edinburgh, Scotland. Von Petzinger earned international media attention last year with her discovery of ancient geometric signs from the Ice Age. As a master’s student in UVic’s Department of Anthropology, von Petzinger cracked a startling symbolic code carved on prehistoric cave walls. She has compiled a database of 5,000 geometric shapes, lines and squiggles from 146 Ice Age caves in France and her work has garnered global attention.
The predicament of transnational migrants is a global issue, with heartbreaking headlines from Africa to Asia and the Americas. Lack of identity documentation and citizenship can be a multigenerational legacy that creates hardships for children and …
Brittney Sharma’s vision—an outdoor program to help children who had experienced family trauma—generated lots of buzz this year after being chosen as a showcase idea for the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference. Sharma graduates this month with a bachelor’s in anthropology, and says her time at UVic was filled with academics and club activities, as well as developing her vision to help children of battered women.
The following University of Victoria faculty member is available to discuss a fundamental rethinking about treaty relations between Indigenous people and settlers of Canada, and how it can help to resolve outstanding land issues in BC and Canada. Mi…
The next generation of Marie Curies, Albert Einsteins and Stephen Hawkings is sitting in classrooms across the country right now, and University of Victoria researchers and students are hoping to keep inspiring these empirically minded kids with dynamic presentations about the wonders of scientific and engineering discoveries throughout the year.
New genetic evidence holds hope for the ring-tailed lemur, despite continued habitat disturbance and a growing illegal pet trade. The ring-tailed lemur, one of the most endangered mammals on the planet, can be bought on the beaches of Madagascar for…
The following University of Victoria faculty members are available to discuss the breaking news today on the thawing of relations between the US and Cuba: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Dept. of Anthropology) is an expert in the cultural policies …
The new "Vikings: Lives beyond the Legend" exhibition at the Royal BC Museum is providing an opportunity for some UVic anthropology students to build their knowledge of Viking culture and share in community education at the same time. Jokes about these students' "cutting edge" skills will have to wait, though. While popular culture representations of the Vikings often put axes, raiding expeditions and pointy headgear first, the wealth of the Viking culture and their complex lifeworld was much more varied. And that's just what the anthropology students are helping community audiences appreciate.
Members of the media are invited to the UVic campus to interview and film/photograph high school students as they search for forensic evidence in a mock missing-persons case for Forensic Anthropology Day. The one-day course on Saturday, June 21 is c…
