Celebrating 50 Years of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Conference
Please join us for a two-day conference and a Celebratory Reception to celebrate the 50 years of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology! Conference: Thursday 1 February 2024, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Friday 2 February 2024, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm ANU Union, 3 Rimmer Street Celebratory…
Screening of 'Remembering Yayayi'
Arts & entertainment
As part of the 2023 Anthony Forge Memorial Lecture, the film 'Remembering Yayayi' will be screened on Wednesday 6th December. All welcome. No registration required 'Remembering Yayayi’ features Marlene Nampitjinpa sharing her memories of Yayayi with anthropologist Fred Myers. The film reflects on…
2023 Anthony Forge Lecture - The Trouble with Art: The Difference Indigeneity Makes in the Visual Arts
Lecture
The ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology invite you to the annual Anthony Forge Memorial Lecture: The Trouble with Art: The Difference Indigeneity Makes in the Visual Arts This lecture represents some thoughts about the difference that Indigeneity makes – or the significance of…
Book Launch - Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Book launch
Join us for the launch of Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster, by Caroline E. Schuster, illustrated by Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno, published by University of Toronto Press. Wednesday 1 November, 5:00 - 6:00pm ANU Classics Museum, A.D. Hope Building (Bld #14),…
The Role of Community Sponsorship for Refugee Resettlement
Seminar
The Role of Community Sponsorship for Refugee Resettlement Kate will present research being undertaken for her ARC project on refugee community sponsorship (Discovery Project with Professor Susan Kneebone and Dr Anthea Vogl). The project is the first large-scale study of community or private…
The Tragedy of the (Global) Commons: A Divided Anthropos Encounters (Abrupt) Climate Change
Seminar
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 multicellular life first emerged on the planet 570 million years ago. In light of the abject failure of global environmental governance to…
Centring Indigenous sovereignty in migration studies: ethical and methodological challenges
Seminar
Centring Indigenous sovereignty in migration studies: ethical and methodological challenges In this presentation I will argue that in order to decolonise migration studies, scholars must not only acknowledge persisting imperial and colonial legacies, but also centre Indigenous sovereignty. This is…