FRANZ BOAS PAPERS PROJECT
Documentary Edition
RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Land, Language, Locatives Conference (UWO), December 13-15 2018,
organized by Regna D. Darnell and Joshua Smith, London, ON.
See also: http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/social-science/2018-12/land-language-locatives.html
NEWS
Spring 2019: Just published! Wickwire, Wendy. At the Bridge: James Teit and the Anthropology of Belonging. University of British Columbia Press, 2019 . You can hear more about Dr. Wickwire's perspective about the remarkable life and work of James Teit in this interview from 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCx8VOKZsJY
November 1 2018: It is with deep regret that we share the passing of Dr. Timothy Powell, Senior Lecture in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania and Consulting Scholar a the Penn Museum. Time was also the former Director of Centre for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) at the American Philosophical Society. Our sincere condolences to his family, colleagues and many friends.
September 2018: Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment (author Han F. Vermeulen) is now available in paperback from the University of Nebraska Press. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803255425/ .
July 2018: Dr. Bimadoshka Pucan's work with Saugeen First Nation elders and teachers and the NEDCC recognized nationally and internationally:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/i-can-hear-you-1938-indigenous-recordings-preserved-in-ont-museum-1.4002099.
You can read more about Dr. Pucan's work at this link: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/6161/
March 2016: AT THE RYAN NICOLSON/G̱WI'MOLAS POTLATCH
Boas Project members were honored to join in the celebration
at the Ryan Nicolson/G̱wi'molas Potlatch in March 2016 at Alert Bay,
British Columbia; photo shared by the Nicolson family,
with our sincere thanks!
