The Fringe Friday lecture series provides a comfortable and conversational arena for anthropology students and staff to present the "fringe" aspects of their research or a personal interest related to anthropology. They are informal ~10-30 minute presentations with a chat.
Talks are held on select Fridays at 3:30pm in Tory 14-28.
Any and all are welcome to attend!
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2025-2026
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End Notes: end of term Fringe-a-palooza
Vivian Giang - How are campus computing IDs assigned?
Sarah Mann - A part of our heritage - a cultural overview of Canada's Heritage Minutes
Ben Kucher - Excavating ideas - a cognitive approach to archaeology
Jennifer Laughton - Lovers' skeletons: fact vs. fiction
Dr. Costopoulos - Is Bigfoot real? De-bunking the Mystery
Maggie DeCoste - Oh My Curd! An Anthropological Approach to Culture, Class, and Cheese
Anders Woodhouse - Me, Myself, and My Editor: the Anthropologist's Guide to Worldbuilding
Sadie Tremblay - The Plot Chickens...Discourse Following the Discovery of pre-Contact Chicken Bones in South America
Uthman Khan - UAlberta Reddit: Mental Health & Symbolic Interactionism
Viktoriya Popovych- A Empty Spot in the Night Sky: The Modernization of West Edmonton Mall and The Consequences of Sterile Design in Public Places
Cynthia Olufade - Nigerian Edo Hustlers in Paris
Sarah Mann - For the Love of Grain - the Canadian cultural obsession with grain elevators
Jennifer Laughton - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Tory Graffiti
Allyson Brinston - Virtual Reality: integrating Indigenous land-based learning in urban environments
Margaret DeCoste - Is it Marchpane? An anthropology of food replicas
Lyndsay Dagg - Maps as Cultural Reflections
Uthman Khan - An Autoethnography of a Trance DJ Producer
Sadie Tremblay - Understanding the Phenomenon of the Wine & True Crime Mom
Sarah Mann - Need a hand, eh? The Canadarm and Canadian astroculture
Jennifer Laughton - Where them girls at? Gundam and its obsession with male child soldiers
Serafina, Emmy, & Viktoriya - Exploring Craftivism
Uthman Khan - Tik Tok Ethnography
Summer Ma - The King of Chu loves slender waists: the quest for females' role on the tea table.
Solène Mallet Gauthier - Chimney Coulee Archaeology
Keyna Young - Getting to the Root of Vegetables
Jennifer Laughton - You spin me right 'round...pole dancing: sex, sport, or both?
Rachel Simpson - Oh so sweet, but ever so deadly: the human history of lead.
Harper Paranich - Participant-communication and Public Ethnography: A Case Study in “Would Christ Be a Christian”
Emily Haines - "Acculturation" and Erasure: Colonial Violence in the Archaeology of the Métis
Summer Ma - Taiwan, the headquarter of Bubble Tea business
2020-2021 - on hiatus
Dr. Losey - Reindeer Enskillment: Domestication in Arctic Siberia
Dr. Costopoulous - The Evolution of Heavy Metal
Jennifer Laughton - For King and Country: a Boer-War cemetery in Botswana
Dietlind Bork - The Mind-Body Separation at Work? Interpretations of the Romantic Era and Tuberculosis
Harper Paranich - Star-crossed science and the resilience of astrology
Emily Hull - reindeer osteobiography and palaeopathology
Dr. Costopoulos - When did the Overhand Flashlight Hold Become Dominate in Film & Television?
Kira McLachlin - Dog Stereotypes: Form, Functions & Friendships
Megan Paranich - You Are What You Eat
Kayleigh Watson - Deviants of Danse Macabre
Dr. Vallianatos - Running Cultures - In Pursuit of Personal Bests, Bling, Fun and Fellowship
Katherine Bishop & Kristen Millions - What’s in a Grave? Integrating Classics, Anthropology, and Archaeology to Identify an Ancient Greek Community
Past posters: 2019-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025
