Anthropology Seminar Series

Contacts

Natasha Fijn
Anthropology Seminar Series

2023 Seminars

All seminars are presented on Monday from 3:00-4:00pm and will be available both in-person and via Zoom, except for those marked **Zoom Only
In-person seminars will be on Mondays from 3-4pm in room 3.369 in the Coombs building.

Zoom Details:
https://bit.ly/3XEVLe2
Meeting ID: 812 1179 0732
Password: 968025

Semester 2 2023

July 24, 3:00-4:00pm
Timothy Neale **Zoom Only
Flexible Fires: Cultural Burning and the Settler-Indigenous Interface

August 7, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Lisa Palmer **Zoom Only
Holding Tightly: Co-Mingling, Life-Flourishing and Filmic Ecologies

August 21, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Sophie Chao **Zoom Only
Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier

August 28, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Muhammad Kavesh
After You: Reflections on More-Than-Human Hospitality in South Asia

September 18, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Jenny Chio **Zoom Only
These Days, These Homes: Miao domesticity, Chinese modernity

September 25, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Stuart McLean
Hildaland, or, Bringing the Ice: Reflections on Missing Persons, Intermittent Islands, and the Ethnography of Uncertain Presence

October 9, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Natasha Fijn
Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia

October 16, 3:00 - 4:00pm
V. Chitra
Drawing the Climate Crisis

October 23, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Josh Wodak **Zoom Only
The Tragedy of the (Global) Commons: A Divided Anthropos Encounters (Abrupt) Climate Change

Zoom Details:
https://bit.ly/3XEVLe2
Meeting ID: 812 1179 0732
Password: 968025

Upcoming events

Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia

3–4pm 9 Oct 2023

One aspect that mammals have in common, including ourselves, is the recognition of a home. In Mongolia the herding encampment (khot ail) is the joint ‘home’...

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Drawing the Climate Crisis

3–4pm 16 Oct 2023

Abstract TBC V. Chitra is an anthropologist and her work intersects environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, and visual studies. She has a...

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The Tragedy of the (Global) Commons: A Divided Anthropos Encounters (Abrupt) Climate Change

3–4pm 23 Oct 2023

At the advent of the Anthropocene, life is being pushed to its limits the world over; we are currently living through the Sixth Mass Extinction to occur since...

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Past events

Hildaland, or, Bringing the Ice: Reflections on Missing Persons, Intermittent Islands, and the Ethnography of Uncertain Presence

25 Sep 2023

Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long-term fieldwork on an...

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These Days, These Homes: Miao domesticity, Chinese modernity

18 Sep 2023

Please note this seminar is available via Zoom only These Days, These Homes is a work in progress film project centered on the lives and homes of two Miao...

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After You: Reflections on More-Than-Human Hospitality in South Asia

28 Aug 2023

Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and...

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Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier

21 Aug 2023

Please note this event is available via Zoom only This talk explores the cultural, political, and affective significance of mourning among the Indigenous...

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Holding Tightly: Co-mingling, life-flourishing and filmic ecologies

7 Aug 2023

Please note this event is available via Zoom only Firmly emplaced within a soundscape incorporating movement, prayer, music, human-made and environmental...

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Flexible fires: cultural burning and the settler-Indigenous interface

24 Jul 2023

Please note this event is available via Zoom only “What exactly is cultural burning?” During the seven years that I have been researching the revitalisation...

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The children of Vincentius

22 May 2023

Child separation has been thoroughly investigated in countries such as Canada and Australia, however, hardly anything concrete is known about the scope,...

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Horseback Ethnography and Multispecies Intersectionality

8 May 2023

Feminist and multispecies anthropologies have de-centred those most visible, in order to appreciate the perspectives of those othered in society – but also in...

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image/identity: explorations of identities through visual representations in Sulawesi, Indonesia

1 May 2023

The paper explores visual representations of identities (professed and attributed) over a century of turbulent history in the mountainous interior of Sulawesi...

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Thai Airline Workers and the Transnational Gift

24 Apr 2023

Airline jobs have valuable opportunity benefits beyond the prescribed work role. This presentation explores how these situations affect cabin crews’...

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