Anthropology Seminar Series
Contacts
2024 Seminars
All seminars are presented on Monday from 3:00-4:00pm and will be available both in-person and via Zoom, except for those marked **Zoom Only
In-person seminars will be on Mondays from 3-4pm in the Coombs Building, Seminar Room B
Zoom Details:
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Meeting ID: 812 1179 0732
Password: 968025
Semester 1 2024
February 19, 3:00-4:00pm, Room 3.72 RSSS building.
Mark Mosko
THE SACRIFICE OF THE YAMS: Tubers, Procreation, and Chiefly Hierarchy in the Trobriands
February 26, 3:00-4:00pm, Room 3.72 RSSS building.
Mardi Reardon-Smith
Park rangers, pig hunters and pigs: The unruly world of invasive species management and control in a Cape York national park
March 4, 3:00-4:00pm, Room 3.72 RSSS building.
Yamini Narayanan
‘Save Cow, Save India’: Interspecific vulnerabilities in India’s cow protection politics
March 18, 3:00-4:00pm
Assa Doron
Chicken Shit and Bare Life: the ritual economy of India's chickens
March 25, 3:00-4:00pm
Shreyas Sreenath
Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
April 15, 4:00-5:00pm**ONE HOUR LATER
Yancey Orr
Indigenous and Scientific Research Methods: Deception, Myth in Academic Psychology and American Indian Communities
April 19, 10:00am-1:00pm, Tea Room, Banks Building
Yancey Orr
Environmental Anthropology Masterclass
April 22, 3:00-4:00pm
Mariko Yoshida
Oyster Restoration as More-than-Human Embodied Practice of Metabolism
April 29, 3:00-4:00pm
James Rose
From Applied to Expert Social anthropology: Emerging Concepts, Terms, and Definitions
May 6, 3:00-4:00pm
Tim Rowse
An ordeal of peoplehood: representations of Indigenous collectivity in the 2023 referendum
May 13, 3:00-4:00pm
Kirsty Wissing
Unsettling nature: Cross-cultural conversations about potential bioengineered conservation in the Torres Strait, Australia
May 20, 3:00-4:00pm
Janet Roitman
Platform Economies: Beyond the North-South Divide
**Science and Technology Masterclass (Details:TBA)
Upcoming events
Masterclass with Yancey Orr
10am–1pm 19 Apr 2024
Masterclass objectives: Advancements in both anthropology and science followed their departures from the use of broad moral frames to understand information....Oyster Restoration as More-than-Human Embodied Practice of Metabolism
3–4pm 22 Apr 2024
Local oyster producers and fisheries experts in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan's primary oyster-producing region, have observed a decline in oyster growth over...From Applied to Expert Social anthropology: Emerging Concepts, Terms, and Definitions
3–4pm 29 Apr 2024
Since the 1970s, applied social anthropology has developed into the field’s best-known and most widely adopted specialization. In the 2018 Global Survey of...An ordeal of peoplehood: representations of Indigenous collectivity in the 2023 referendum
3–4pm 6 May 2024
Presenting themselves as sovereign peoples (and not just as citizens of Australia), Indigenous Australians struggle over therms in which to represent their...Unsettling nature: Cross-cultural conversations about potential bioengineered conservation in the Torres Strait, Australia
3–4pm 13 May 2024
Applied over generations, a bioengineered gene drive promises to radically reduce invasive species’ populations through suppressed breeding. As this technology...Platform Economies: Beyond the North-South Divide
3–4pm 20 May 2024
Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and...Past events
Indigenous and Scientific Research Methods: Deception, Myth in Academic Psychology and American Indian Communities
15 Apr 2024
The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between Indigenous and Western scientific ways...Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
25 Mar 2024
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups, clogged sewers,...Chicken Shit and Bare Life: the ritual economy of India's chickens
18 Mar 2024
This talk delves into the complexities of India's evolving poultry industry, reflecting on the social, cultural and economic aspects to do with the shift from...‘Save Cow, Save India’: Interspecific vulnerabilities in India’s cow protection politics
4 Mar 2024
India criminalises cow slaughter, based on Hindus’ reverence of cows as sacred and a Hindu nationalist imagination of the cow as a Hindu nation. Simultaneously...Park rangers, pig hunters and pigs: The unruly world of invasive species management and control in a Cape York national park
26 Feb 2024
Biosecurity and invasive species management is an enduring concern for environmental managers in Australia. In Cape York Peninsula, far north Queensland,...THE SACRIFICE OF THE YAMS: Tubers, Procreation, and Chiefly Hierarchy in the Trobriands Mark Mosco, ANU
19 Feb 2024
James Scott (Against the Grain, 2017) has famously argued that tuber- as distinct from cereal-based agriculture offers an escape from political subjugation in...The Tragedy of the (Global) Commons: A Divided Anthropos Encounters (Abrupt) Climate Change
23 Oct 2023
At the advent of the Anthropocene, life is being pushed to its limits the world over; we are currently living through the Sixth Mass Extinction to occur since...Drawing the Climate Crisis
16 Oct 2023
My paper considers technical images that remake human-nature relationships along urban shores. They produce particular kinds of coastal futures through their...Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia
9 Oct 2023
One aspect that mammals have in common, including ourselves, is the recognition of a home. In Mongolia the herding encampment (khot ail) is the joint ‘home’...Hildaland, or, Bringing the Ice: Reflections on Missing Persons, Intermittent Islands, and the Ethnography of Uncertain Presence
25 Sep 2023
Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long-term fieldwork on an...
