Anthropology Seminar Series
Contacts
2024 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 the Coombs Building, Seminar Room B
Zoom Details:
https://bit.ly/3XEVLe2
Meeting ID: 812 1179 0732
Password: 968025
Semester 2 2024
July 22, 3:00-4:00pm **CANCELLED**
Kalpana Ram
Disgust and Aesthetic Judgement: Brahmanism, caste, and classical music and dance in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
July 29, 3:00-4:00pm
Timothy Heffernan
Kincentric political reform in Iceland after elite corruption
August 5, 3:00-4:00pm
Tanya Jakimow
The moral atmosphere of rule-dense elections: Creative relationality and forceful enforcement in Australian local politics
August 12, 3:00-4:00pm
Tom Powell Davies
The ‘three hearths’: Custom, religion and the state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
August 19, 3:00-4:00pm
Leo Couacaud
How shopping centres and other modern public spaces transform human consciousness
August 26, 3:00-4:00pm
Emma Kowal
The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
September 16, 3:00-4:00pm
Yasmine Musharbash
Monsters and Crises
September 23, 3:00-4:00pm
Cristine Rocha
Spiritual Fandom: Pentecostalism, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Hillsong
September 30, 3:00-4:00pm
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities: Activism, Failure, and the Event
October 14, 3:00-4:00pm
Sudiipta Dowsett
Rebel Sistah Cypher: research, activism and creative practice
October 21, 3:00-4:00pm
Jason Gibson
Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
Semester 1 2024
Anthropology_Seminar_1_2024.pdf
Past events
Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
21 Oct 2024
In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central...The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and the Event
30 Sep 2024
Radical activists struggle to assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects, and for their potential longer-term consequences. Provisional...Spiritual Fandom: Pentecostalism, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Hillsong
23 Sep 2024
This paper draws on my new book Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (OUP 2024). It argues that, as Hillsong became a...Monsters and Crises
16 Sep 2024
This paper has two aims: (1) to introduce the broader project of Monster Anthropology that my colleague Geir Presterudstuen and I have been working on for over...The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
26 Aug 2024
In the dry season of 1889 on the remote northwest coast of Australia, a station manager with a violent past went in search of a white man rumoured to be living...How shopping centres and other modern public spaces transform human consciousness
19 Aug 2024
The study of shopping centres, or “malls”, is now an established subfield in anthropology and urban studies. Yet strangely, few (if any) of these studies have...The ‘three hearths’: Custom, religion and the state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
12 Aug 2024
In Melanesia and Indonesia, socio-political life frequently centres around a tripartite relationship between custom, religion and state government. Building on...The moral atmosphere of rule-dense elections: Creative relationality and forceful enforcement in Australian local politics
5 Aug 2024
Elections are governed by complex rules to ensure fair competition in a political field. Due to COVID-19, the 2021 New South Wales local government elections...Kincentric political reform in Iceland after elite corruption
29 Jul 2024
This talk explores how kinship has been central to collective recovery after political crisis in Iceland. Revelations of elite corruption following the 2008...Masterclass with Janet Roitman
21 May 2024
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology together with the College of Asia-Pacific, and the Capitalism Studies Network are organizing a Science and...
