Anthropology Seminar Series

Second semester 2012

VENUE: Seminar room A Coombs Building
TIME & DAY: 9.30am Wednesdays (refer dates below)

July 25 

Rohan Bastin:  Distinguished early and absolutely: secularized sovereignty in India and Sri Lanka.

August 1

Cameo Dalley:  ‘Well I heard it on the radio and saw it on the television…’  and downloaded it from the Internet: Internet use, identity and the ‘digital divide’ in a remote Aboriginal town

August 8

Melanie Rock:  Posthumanist belonging and well-being in urban life: Municipal law, people's values, and the ethics of pet ownership

August 15

Holly Wardlow:  Treating Gender Violence: MSF’s Project in Tari, Papua New Guinea

August 22

Matt Tomlinson:  Divine Power in Indigenous Christianity: Translation, Theology, and Pacific Politics

August 29

Simone Dennis:  Political Air and state interests in breath: Foregrounding air and breathing in the smokefree state

September 5

Karen Sykes:  The Value of a Beautiful Memory:  Imitation as Borrowing

October 3

Horacio Fabrega:  The Theory and Science of Ethnomedicine: (Culturally Affirmative, Evolutionarily Affirmative, or Biomedically Affirmative?)”

October 10 

Rose Lilley:  Professional Guidance: maternal negotiation of primary school placement for children with autism

October 17

Chris Houston:  Neither Only in Themselves nor Just for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry

October 24

Sarah Holcombe:  The Practice of Indigenous Rights in Central Australia: The Politics of Indigeneity during the Rise of Intolerance

October 31

Melinda Hinkson:  Back to the future: Warlpiri encounters with drawings, country and others in the digital age