
2025 Seminars
All seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom.
Time: Mondays 3pm-4.30pm
Location(s): Haydon Allen room 2175, unless indicated otherwise. Check individual events for more details
Zoom:https://anu.zoom.us/j/84128620477?pwd=fRLFaoWlZw7kKJzZZWlCIavoO2pHOX.1
Semester 2 2025
21 July 2025
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, The Mystery of the Almost Disappearing Naga: On Urbanization and Cosmopolitics in Bangkok
Online via Zoom
28 July 2025
Nidhi A Mahajan, Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean
Online via Zoom
11 August 2025
V. Chitra, Assa Dorron, Muhammad Kavesh, Caroline Schuster Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
In person - SDSC Reading Room 3.27, Level 3, Hedley Bull Building
Online via Zoom
18 August 2025
Georgia Curran, Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desert
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
15 September 2025
Eunseon Kim, Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language Problem
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
22 September 2025
Nikita Simpson, How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
29 September 2025
Michael Edwards, Myanmar and the dissonance of salvation
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
13 October 2025
Ingjerd Hoem, Decolonization as a State Project. New Zealand and Tokelau
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
20 October 2025
Ton Otto,The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
Contact
- Tim McLellan
Upcoming Events
Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language Problem
Eunseon Kim
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language ProblemThis talk explores…
How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
Nikita Simpson, CAMHRA
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western HimalayasA litany of…
Myanmar and the dissonance of salvation
Michael Edwards, University of Sydney
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Myanmar and the dissonance of salvationFor about a decade prior to Myanmar’s February 2021 coup,…
Past Events
Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desert
Georgia Curran, University of Sydney
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desertFor…
Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
V. Chitra, Assa Dorron, Muhammad Kavesh, Caroline Schuster
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's ShoreJoin us for a…
Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean
Nidhi A Mahajan (UC Santa Cruz)
Presented online only - Zoom details belowMoorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on…