Western to Host Cascadia Seminar on Medical Anthrolopology April 21-23

Western will host the Cascadia Seminar on Medical Anthrolopology from April 21-23. The Cascadia Seminar is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend conference organized collaboratively by medical anthropologists on faculty at a number of different universities and colleges in the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia; all events and discussions at the seminar are free and open to the public, although registration is required at http://www.cascadiaseminar.org/registration/.

The Cascadia Seminar will begin the evening of Friday April 21, with a keynote address by Amade M’charek, Professor of Anthropology of Science at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. for a list of the weekend's abstracts to be presented and schedule, go to http://www.cascadiaseminar.org/. cosponsored by WWU's Provost's Office, the Department of Anthropology, and the Gordon H. and Alice C. Fraser Lecture Series.