Graduate Research & Development Sessions (GRaDS)
The Anthropology Graduate Research & Development Sessions for 2024-25 will take place on Fridays, 1:30-2:30 in SSC 2257.GRaDS Aims & Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the graduate research & development sessions, students will:
- Be familiar with the current research of colleagues and faculty members.
- Appreciate the different ways in which anthropology is defined.
- Have been introduced to new theoretical perspectives and approaches that might be useful in their own research.
- Recognize what makes for an engaging and effective public presentation.
- Know how to effectively communicate with colleagues across sub-disciplinary boundaries.
2024-25 Schedule (Tentative)
| Date | What's On? | Who Should Attend? |
| Fall 2024 | ||
| Sept. 6 |
Department Research in the Spotlight, 1:30pm, SSC 2257 |
Everyone welcome & encouraged to participate! |
| Sept. 13 |
Training Session: Supporting Safer Classrooms: Annalise Trudell & Amelia Seed - Western Wellness & Equity Education Team |
Required session for first & second year students: recommended for all students and faculty Please note this session will run from 1:30-3:30pm. |
| Sept. 20 | Workshop: SSHRC Doctoral Applications (Applications due Oct 1, 8:00pm, EST) | Strongly recommended for students applying for SSHRCD scholarships |
| Oct. 4 |
Student Presentations: Sarah Bidinosti The Application of Osteomorphometric Methods to Computed Tomography Scans of Mummies Sorcha Rountree Revising the Typology for Cranial Modification in the Andes |
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| Oct. 11 |
Info Session: Writing Grant Applications (CGSM & OGS) |
Required session for first-year MA students; everyone welcome |
| Oct. 18 |
Fall Study Break Oct. 14-20 No session |
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| Oct. 25 |
Student Presentation: Isaac Bender 'Only at the Rural': A multi-modal assessment of non-invasive grave identification techniques at the Ingersoll Rural Cemetery |
Required session |
| Nov. 1 |
No session |
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| Nov. 8 | High School Outreach Event |
8:30am-2:00pm, SSC 3227 & 3102 |
| Nov. 15 | Workshop: CGSM Scholarship Applications (Applications due Dec.1, 8:00pm, EST) | Strongly recommended for students applying for CGSM scholarships |
| Thu, Nov. 21 | Graduate Program Information Session (in-person & online), 1:30-2:30pm, SSC 3102 | Prospective students interested in the Anthropology graduate program |
| Nov. 22 |
Student Presentations: Katie Lewis An Isotopic Approach to Understanding the Role of Whales in Early Inuit Subsistence Daniel Amacker Improving Adult-Age-at-Death Estimation Using Secondary Dentin Accumulation |
Required session |
| Nov. 29 |
Guest speaker: David Howe (School of Kinesiology, Western) What about the Sheep?: an anthropological life at the margins |
Required session for first & second year students. Everyone welcome. |
| Dec. 6 | No session | |
| Winter 2025 |
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| Jan. 3 | No session | |
| Jan. 10 |
Info Session: Term Two Milestones: MA Thesis Proposals & PhD Statements of Interest (due in April/May) |
Required session for first-year students |
| Jan. 17 |
Research Ethics Information Session: Trevor Bieber, Research Services, Western |
Required session for students applying to NMREB for approval |
| Jan. 24 |
Student Presentations: Lance Jacobs Semi-subterranean Sweat lodges or Cold Storages? Panchala Weerasinghe The Relationship between Diet and Disease among the Greek Athenian Agora Individuals from Mycenean to Ottoman Period |
Required session |
| Jan. 31 |
No session |
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| Feb. 7 |
Student Presentation: Kun Mu Faith and Community Building in Diaspora: An Ethnographic Study of a Chinese Christian Church in Canada |
Required session |
| Feb. 14 | No session | |
| Feb. 21 |
Reading Week Feb. 17-21 - No session | |
| Feb. 28 |
Student Presentations: Anonya Tanchangya Shimanto Shorok (Border Road) and the History of Indigenous Disenfranchisement in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Javier Alvarez Vandeputte Language Shift and the Challenges of Mapuche Language Revitalization in Schools |
Required session |
| Mar. 7 |
No session |
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| Mar. 14 |
No session |
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| Mar. 21 | No session | |
| Mar. 28 |
Student Presentation: Holly Scott (attendance required) UWOJA Journal Workshop: The Peer Review Process (everyone welcome)
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| Apr. 4 |
No session |
