Two members of the CASCA Executive Committee will finish their terms at the May AGM: Emma Varley will step down as Past-President, and Rine Vieth will finish their term as…
Dear colleagues, The CASCA warmly invites applications from members to serve as the next Chair or Co-Chairs of the CASCA Medical Anthropology Network! Especially welcome are medical anthropologist candidates with a history of CASCA membership and…
Dear CASCA members, We are very pleased to announce that this year’s winner of CASCA’s Weaver-Tremblay award is Carole Lévesque (Professeur titulaire, Institut national de la recherche scientifique). Dr. Lévesque’s Weaver-Tremblay lecture…
Dear CASCA members, We are delighted to inform you that the latest Culture Vol.18, No.1 - Sedimented Histories, Vital Trajectories/Histoires Sédimentées, Trajectoires Vitales, is out! You are welcome to check…
CASCA is honoured to welcome Dr. Naomi Adelson as CASCA Fellow for 2024! Dr. Adelson is a professor of medical anthropology and, since 2018, the associate vice president, research and…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Maggie Cummings (University of Toronto) and Dr. Abra Wenzel (Carleton University) for being selected as this year’s recipients of the CASCA Award for Teaching…
Please join us in congratulating Carole Therrien (PhD Candidate, Carleton University) who has been awarded the 2024 Richard F. Salisbury Award, given each year to an outstanding PhD candidate, enrolled…
Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee Award 2023 Prize Announcement The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 award is Michael J. Hathaway for What a Mushroom…
The Executive Committee of the Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) shares the concerns of many sister societies (e.g. DGSKA, EASA, AAA, AAS) regarding the recent letter of dismissal sent…
The journal Anthropologica is looking for a new editorial team composed of one Editor for the English-language manuscripts and one Editor for the French-language manuscripts. The editors can act as…
Dear members, please find below the CASCA IHRA resolution. The vote on this resolution will take place at the AGM held in Regina in May. -- RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE IHRA GUIDELINES…
Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. We are currently accepting articles and discussion pieces, news items, event announcements, and book notes for the Spring 2024 issue. In…
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) warmly invites applications from members to serve as the next Chair or Co-Chairs of the CASCA Medical Anthropology Network! Especially welcome are medical anthropologist candidates…
Please find below the details for the Call for Nominations for the following CASCA Executive positions: 1) President Elect (one-year term, May 2024-May 2025, to be followed by one year…
Dear All, Now that CASCA 2023 is behind us and we are looking ahead to CASCA 2024 in May, we are reaching out to our membership in search of submissions…
Seedings: Call for Paper II Seedings is Anthropologica’s section dedicated to growing and planting ideas stimulated by recurrent calls for papers launched by our editorial team. For our second Seed series, Anthropologica is…
Chers membres de la CASCA, Veuillez commencer à planifier la CASCA 2024 à UBC Okanagan sur le territoire de Syilx et en ligne, du 15 au 18 mai 2024.…
CASCA views the unfolding tragedy in Palestine-Israel with horror and great concern. We support international calls for an immediate ceasefire. We condemn the attacks by Hamas on innocent people, and…
The Arctic is a site of huge sociolinguistic changes. Historically, different types of migration have led to complex sociolinguistic situations with language ideologies and policies, implicitly or explicitly, supporting certain…
This event at the CASCA/AAA 2023 Conference in Toronto is for CASCA members to consider the direction of the Society in a way that honours our past. How do we…
CASCA is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: https://www.cas-sca.ca This site has been in development for the past few years, and through the efforts of our current and…
CASCA is selling tickets for special events and visits organized by the LOC and the Women's Network at the CASCA/AAA 2023 Conference in Toronto, November 15 to 19. For questions, e-mail…
The AAA and CASCA boards reached a decision to remove the session “Let's Talk about Sex Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology” from the AAA/CASCA…
This is a link to a letter in support of the decision to withdraw the “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby” session from the AAA/CASCA 2023 Meeting. Read More
Page under construction—check back soon for the announcement about CASCA Presents!
The Canadian Anthropological Society unequivocally condemns the Russian Federation’s military assault on Ukraine. Read Statement
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) condemns anti-Asian hate in Canada and recognizes that it is embedded in white supremacy, xenophobia, and often misogyny. Specifically, we would like to extend our…
In May 2020, members of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution supporting the Wet’suwet’en and all Indigenous peoples political and territorial sovereignty. The resolution…
Sexual harassment in any form will not be tolerated at the CASCA Annual Meeting. Our culture is based on mutual respect and collaboration. CASCA will do what it takes to…
The Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d'anthropologie recognizes disproportionate impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) being experienced by members of our community who already suffer most from existing inequities in…
The Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d'anthropologie is very concerned about the detention of Cihan Erdal, a doctoral candidate at Carleton University, while doing research in Turkey. As the association that…
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) ran an online survey with our members on the experience of sexual harassment in professional settings from August 1 – October 31, 2019.
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) stands as a witness to the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmad Aubrey. CASCA acknowledges the anguish and outrage felt by Black,…
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