Events & Speakers

The Department of Anthropology has multiple student clubs and groups that are very active throughout the year organizing and running various events and educational activities for Western community and general public. Among those are:

• Western Anthropology Outreach Team
• Western Anthropology Graduate Society (WAGS)
• WE-ColLab
• Undergraduate Anthropology Club

Each year the Department of Anthropology also invites distinguished speakers to address the department in conjunction and consultation with the undergraduate Anthropology Society. This lecture series was established in 2010 in the name of two former professors who had been crucial contributors to undergraduate education during their years at Western.

Because sociocultural/linguistic anthropology and biological anthropology/archaeology represent two main streams in the field of Anthropology, the Gehman Lecture will be delivered by a sociocultural anthropologist or linguistic anthropologist, and the Spence Lecture will be delivered by a biological anthropologist or an archaeologist.  It is part of the mandate of this series that lectures be on topics of broad interest and open to all undergraduate students in the Department.

Additionally, the Darnell Distinguished Lecture in Theory, Ethnography and Activism in Anthropology, established in 2018, is our annual Distinguished Lecture series

Information will be updated on a regular basis as new speakers and events are added to our line-up.