2026 Seminars
Unless specifically stated for a particular talk, all seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom.
Time: Mondays 3pm-4pm (except for public holidays and semester teaching break)
Location(s): H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon) unless indicated otherwise. Check individual events for more details.
Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82431454032?pwd=owA39nWqTYm2TGOcC0sWa9bEDVangD.1
Semester 1 2026
23 February 2026
Simon Coleman
Stretching Cities: On the Neo-Pentecostalization of Urban Space
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
2 March 2026
V. Chitra, Kylie Dolan
Possum Lab: Thinking through Human-Animal Relationships with "Man's Best"
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
16 March 2026
Francesca Merlan
Inside Australian Land Claims: Some Anthropological Perspectives
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
23 March 2026
Hayeon Lee
Korean Dreams, Revisited: Vietnamese Women’s Stories of Repeat Marriage Migration
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
30 March 2026
Malini Sur
Parramatta Redux: Film Screening and Discussion
Online via Zoom
20 April 2026
Arratee Ayuttacorrn
Affective Resilience of Aging: Social Networks and Care Work Among Older Adults in Chiangmai, Thailand
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
4 May 2026
V. Chitra, Adam Sargent
Possum Lab
In person – Location TBC
Online via Zoom
11 May 2026
Nicolas Peterson
Welfare autonomy reflections and evidence on why and how things have changed in remote Australia since the early 1970s
In person – Location TBC
Online via Zoom
18 May 2026
Tuomas Tammisto
In person – Location TBC
Online via Zoom
25 May 2026
Adam Sargent
In person – Location TBC
Online via Zoom
Contact
- Kirsty Wissing
Upcoming Events
Inside Australian Land Claims: Some Anthropological Perspectives
Francesca Merlan, ANU
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.This paper is a continuation of my long-standing interest in the interaction between Indigenous…
Korean Dreams, Revisited: Vietnamese Women’s Stories of Repeat Marriage Migration
Hayeon Lee, ANU
Presented in person and online; details below.Marriage migration between Vietnam and South Korea has grown exponentially since the early 2000s, with…
Parramatta Redux: Film screening & discussion
Malini Sur, Western Sydney University
Presented online via Zoom (link below)Parramatta Redux (38 minutes) uncovers the resilience of those who have called Parramatta home-from its First…
Past Events
PossumLab: Thinking through Human-Animal Relationships with "Man's Best"
V. Chitra, ANU, Kylie Dolan, ANU
Presented in person and online - details below.PossumLab is a space to explore creative ethnographic work. Every semester, we read two comics and use…
Stretching Cities: On the Neo-Pentecostalization of Urban Space
Simon Coleman, University of Toronto
Presented in person and online; details below.Since the latter part of the twentieth century, new forms of Pentecostalism have made their presence…
The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Ton Otto, Aarhus University
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (…