Dialect to Language: Hazara Perspectives on the Recognition of Hazaragi in Australia
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Hazaragi has traditionally been considered a dialect, sociolect or ethnolect of Persian (Dari/Farsi) spoken by Hazara people. Australia became the first country to recognise Hazaragi as a distinct language coinciding with…
Against 'Globalization'?
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Sedimented orientations to the concept of globalization today often rest on a technocratic triumphalism – ‘time-space compression’ made possible by emerging technologies, ‘flows’ of various kinds transforming ‘-scapes’…
2022 Anthony Forge Lecture - Geontologies & Four Axioms of Existence, Where to Begin?
Lecture
Please note: The ANU continues to require mask wearing at indoor events on campus. Please bring your mask in order to attend this event, unless you have an exemption. This lecture asks how anthropology should ground its research agenda in the context of crumbling boundaries between Life…
Negotiating Plastic Elements: De-mythicizing Warriors and Plastics in Japan, the 1940s – 1970s
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Japan is the second-largest producer of plastic waste. Most plastic waste is said to come from the household. The recent government policies have called for the cooperation of individual citizens to recycle and change…
The Semiotics of Human Cooperation
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Starting from dialogical, interactive studies of human discourse, we identify and discuss six properties of human cooperation that have either been missed or have remained underappreciated in the literature on cooperation…