2026 Seminars
Unless specifically stated for a particular talk, all seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom. For the full schedule, please check the PDF below.
Time: Mondays 1-2 pm (except for public holidays and semester teaching break)
Location(s): Check individual events for more details.
Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82431454032?pwd=owA39nWqTYm2TGOcC0sWa9bEDVangD.1
Semester 2 2026 - Schedule:
- 3 August 2026 - Marie Kolling
- 10 August 2026 - Siobhan McDonnell
- 17 August 2026 - Stefanie Puszka (Online event only)
- 24 August 2026 - Judit Kroo (Online event only)
- 31 August 2026 - Timothy Neale
- 21 September 2026, 1-2:30 pm - Special event: Amanda Kearney, Lucas Bessire, and Sophie Chao in conversation with Yasmine Musharbash
- 28 September 2026 - Marek Pawlak (This seminar is supported by Norden@ANU, an Australia-Nordic research initiative in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology)
- 12 October 2026 - Zeynel Gül (Online event only)
- 19 October 2026 - Possum Lab with Chitra V and Adam Sargent
- 26 October 2026 - Meherose Borthwick (This seminar is supported by the ANU South Asian Research Institute -SARI)
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Contact
- Kirsty Wissing
Upcoming Events
“Fighting not sinking”: How emotions impact Pacific diplomacy, geopolitics and climate security
Siobhan McDonnell (ANU - Crawford School of Public Policy)
Emotions impact Pacific diplomacy, causing ripples and rifts in regional geopolitics and climate security. Islands, and atolls in particular, are…
Care Circuits: Yolŋu, kidney disease and the work of policy translation
Stefanie Puszka (ANU School of Medicine and Psychology)
An epidemic of end-stage kidney disease in remote Australian First Nations communities calls attention to the care practices that enable patients’…
Reading Radiation: Evidence and Future-Making in Post-Disaster Fukushima
Judit Kroo (University of Melbourne)
How does radiation function as evidence? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Fukushima, Japan site of the 2011 triple disaster of…
Past Events
Credit as care and financial frontier. An ethnography of predatory inclusion under Brazil’s ‘fintech revolution’
Marie Kolling (Danish Institute for International Studies)
In Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a rise in poverty and accelerated the already ignited ‘fintech revolution,’ pushing a policy agenda of…
Making the Subjects of Racism: Icelandic People and a Plaster Bust Collection in the Canary Islands
Professor Kristín Loftsdóttir (the University of Iceland)
In 1856, several plaster busts were created by a French expedition in Iceland and Greenland, revealing one of the many ways these countries were a…
The Real and the Created in Ethnographic Film: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University)
Ethnographic filmmakers often struggle to balance the need to let people speak for themselves with the need to create a coherent presentation through…