Anthropology Seminar Series
Contacts
2021 Seminars
Zoom Link
https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Semester 1 2021
Monday 15 March 3:00-4:00pm
Oona Paredes, University of California – Los Angeles
Founders and Settlers: Unpacking Indigeneity among the Higaunon Lumad in Mindanao
Monday 22 March 3:00-4:00pm
Alex Golub, University of Hawai‘i – Mānoa
Whose ‘Failed State?': Connecting Contemporary Law and Order Issues in Enga Province To Its Colonial Past
Monday 29 March 3:00-4:00pm
Tess Lea, University of Sydney
Wild Policy: a theory. method and activation
Monday 19 April 3:00-4:00pm
Benjamin Hegarty, University of Melbourne
The State-Issued ‘Identity Card’ as Visual Medium in Postauthoritarian Indonesia
Monday 3 May Special start time 10:00am
Ilana Gershon, Indiana University
Put Your Mask On!: Contractual Sociality at Work in the Pandemic
Monday 10 May Special start time 4:00pm
Alice Rudge, University College London
The Known and the Unknown: Sensing Others in the Batek's Forest, Malaysia
Monday 17 May 12:00-1:00pm
Lawrence Gross, University of Redlands
Post Apocalypse Stress Syndrome in the Age of COVID-19
Monday 24 May 3:00-4:00pm
Philip Fountain, Victoria University–Wellington
Humanitarian Confessions: Ethnography, Autobiography and the Locations of Religion in Aidland
Semester 2 2021
Monday 2 August 3:00-4:00pm
Malini Sur, Western Sydney University
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Monday 9 August Special start time 12:00-1:00pm
Courtney Handman, University of Texas – Austin
Unnatural Languages: Conversion, Deception, and the Colonial Limits of the Human
Monday 16 August Special start time 12:00-1:00pm
Carlos Mondragón, Colegio de México
Of Winds, Worms and Fertility: The Meci Festival in Timor-Leste
Monday 23 August 3:00-4:00pm
Caroline Schuster, Australian National University
Weedy Finance: Insurance and the Quest for Parameters on Unstable Grounds
Monday 30 August 3:00-4:00pm
Joanne Thurman, Australian National University
Hardness and Housing at a Warlpiri Community
Monday 20 September, Special start time 2:00-3:00pm
Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington
The Enduring Logic of Mercy and its Discontents
Monday 27 September, Special start time 12:00-1:00pm
Andrea Ballestero, Rice University
Expanding the Social World Downwards: Aquifers and Post-Extractivist Futures in Costa Rica
Monday 11 October 3:00-4:00pm
Eve Vincent, Macquarie University
Look After Them?: Life on Welfare in Australia Today
Monday 18 October Special start time 12:00pm
Webb Keane, University of Michigan
Life with Turing Machines: Ethics at the Edges of the Human
Monday 25 October 3:00-4:00pm
Holly High, Deakin University
“Can You Policy?": Researching Lao Science and State in COVID Times
Online FREE and open to all, registration not required
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Contact Email: soaa.admin.cass@anu.edu.au
Past events
“Can You Policy?": Researching Lao Science and State in COVID Times
25 Oct 2021
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Abstract: In Lao PDR, the standard translation for policy is nanyubay. But this...Life with Turing Machines: Ethics at the Edges of the Human
18 Oct 2021
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Social media, robots, and algorithms are drawing people into new forms of social...Look After Them?: Life on Welfare in Australia Today
11 Oct 2021
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Since the 1990s, the receipt of social security in Australia has become more...Expanding the Social World Downwards: Aquifers and Post-Extractivist Futures in Costa Rica
27 Sep 2021
The history of Latin America has been marked by extractivist waves, from colonial times to the recent neo-extractivist turn of leftist governments in the...The Enduring Logic of Mercy and its Discontents
20 Sep 2021
Drawing from research on the Iranian criminal justice system as well as international laws of war and peace, this talk explores the tensions between...Hardness and Housing at a Warlpiri Community
30 Aug 2021
When Nakamarra, a Warlpiri resident of Nyirrpi (NT) observed, “They getting really hard with the houses” – what did she mean? In this paper I unpack what it...Weedy Finance: Weather Insurance and Parametric Life on Unstable Grounds
23 Aug 2021
For commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, where insurance companies sell weather derivatives to poor farmers, key financial practices depend less on...Of Winds, Worms and Fertility: The Meci Festival in Timor-Leste
16 Aug 2021
This seminar focuses on indigenous calendars, environmental practices and ritual feasting in relation to the Meci festival in Timor-Leste. ‘Meci’ is the name...The Marginal Languages of Colonial Belief
9 Aug 2021
At what point did colonized peoples come to be recognized as objects of evangelistic attention? When were their languages recognized as media for the...Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
2 Aug 2021
Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim 'frontier peasants', 'savage...
