Upcoming events
29
Jul
2024
Kincentric political reform in Iceland after elite corruption
This talk explores how kinship has been central to collective recovery after political crisis in Iceland. Revelations of elite corruption following the 2008...
05
Aug
2024
The moral atmosphere of rule-dense elections: Creative relationality and forceful enforcement in Australian local politics
Elections are governed by complex rules to ensure fair competition in a political field. Due to COVID-19, the 2021 New South Wales local government elections...
12
Aug
2024
The ‘three hearths’: Custom, religion and the state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
In Melanesia and Indonesia, socio-political life frequently centres around a tripartite relationship between custom, religion and state government. Building on...
19
Aug
2024
How shopping centres and other modern public spaces transform human consciousness
The study of shopping centres, or “malls”, is now an established subfield in anthropology and urban studies. Yet strangely, few (if any) of these studies have...
26
Aug
2024
The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
In the dry season of 1889 on the remote northwest coast of Australia, a station manager with a violent past went in search of a white man rumoured to be living...
20
Sep
2024
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and the Event
Radical activists struggle to assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects, and for their potential longer-term consequences. Provisional...
23
Sep
2024
Spiritual Fandom: Pentecostalism, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Hillsong
This paper draws on my new book Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (OUP 2024). It argues that, as Hillsong became a...
