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, Seminar Room C, Ground floor (close to the Coombs Lecture theatre) 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, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
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, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
4 May 2026
Tim McLellan
PossumLab: Tim McLellan reads King of Bangkok by Sopranzetti et al
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
11 May 2026
Nicolas Peterson
The paradox of welfare autonomy: poverty, employment, and consumer dependency in remote Australia
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
18 May 2026
Tuomas Tammisto
Roads, plantations and consultants: Road-building and multiple territorializations in Pomio, Papua New Guinea
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
25 May 2026
Adam Sargent
Eating Abuse: Caste, Class and the Figure of Labour
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
Special Event - 28 May 2026
Richard K. Wolf
The Real and the Created in Ethnographic Film: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room D
Online via Zoom
Special Event - 17 June 2026
Kristín Loftsdóttir
Making the Subjects of Racism: Icelandic People and a Plaster Bust Collection in the Canary Islands
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
Contact
- Kirsty Wissing
Past Events
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…
Eating Abuse: Caste, Class and the Figure of Labour
Adam Sargent (ANU)
This paper explores how workers negotiate a stigmatized social category known as “labour”. On the surface this category appears to be a…