Anthropology Seminar Series
Contacts
2022 Seminars
Zoom Link
https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Semester 1 2022
Monday 28 February 3:00-4:00pm
Miranda Forsyth, ANU
Sorcery Accusation Related Violence: Fighting the Wildfire of SARV
Monday 7 March, 3:00-4:00pm
Nicolas Peterson, ANU
Why Hold a Winter Solstice Ceremony Once in 24 Years and Then Never Again?
Monday 21 March, 3:00-4:00pm
Adam Sargent, Western Sydney University
Killer Loan Apps and the Entanglements of Digital Debt in India
Monday 28 March, 3:00-4:00pm
Canay Ozden-Schilling, National University of Singapore
Real Time in Rear View: Techno-Economic Acts in Markets of Electricity
Monday 2 May, 3:00-4:00pm
Tarryn Phillips, John Taylor, Edward Narain and Philippa Chandler, Latrobe University
Monday 9 May, 3:00-4:00pm
Robin Shoaps and Patrick Plattet, University of Alaska
Monday 16 May, 3:00-4:00pm
Rebekah Plueckhahn, University of Melbourne
Cynicism and Multiplicity: Residential Entanglements within Urban Power Relations in Mongolia
Monday 23 May, 3:00-4:00pm
Melinda Hinkson, Deakin University
Semester 2 2021
Monday 25 July, 3:00-4:00pm
Alessandro Duranti, UCLA & Nicco La Mattin, UCLA
The Semiotics of Human Cooperation
Monday 1 August, 3:00-4:00pm
Yasmine Musharbash, ANU
Monday 8 August, 3:00-4:00pm
Shiori Shakuto, University of Sydney
Monday 15 August, 3:00-4:00pm
Lisa Uperesa, University of Auckland
Monday 22 August, 3:00-4:00pm
James Barry, Deakin University & Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Latrobe University
Monday 29 August, 3:00-4:00pm
Hao-Li Lin, National Tsing Hua University
Monday 19 September, 3:00-4:00pm
Helena Onnudottir, Western Sydney University
Monday 26 September, 3:00-4:00pm
Greg Rawlings, University of Otago
Monday 10 October, 3:00-4:00pm
Melissa Demian, University of St Andrews
Monday 17 October, 3:00-4:00pm
Erik Harms, Yale University
Monday 24 October, 3:00-4:00pm
Nick Seaver, Tufts University
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
Upcoming events
The Semiotics of Human Cooperation
3–4pm 25 Jul 2022
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Starting from dialogical, interactive studies of human discourse, we identify and...Past events
See How We Roll: Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia: Reflections on Method and Writing
23 May 2022
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 In this seminar I reflect upon the challenges of conceiving and writing See How...Cynicism and Multiplicity: Residential Entanglements within Urban Power Relations in Mongolia
16 May 2022
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 This paper examines opaque power relations amidst urban dwelling, waste, and...Teaming up with Animals: The Making of Canine and Human Athletes in the Alaska Dog Mushing Community of Practice
9 May 2022
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 This paper aims to provide an intervention into the anthropology of sport and..."Our Bula Spirit Awaits You!" (When Borders Reopen): Indigenous Wellbeing and Romanticised Inequality in Post-COVID Tourism Campaigns
2 May 2022
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Much recent commentary posits Covid-19 as an opportunity to reset the global...Real Time in Rear View: Temporal Acts in Markets of Electricity
28 Mar 2022
This paper explores what “real time” means to market actors. My focus is on the traders, market designers, and engineers acting in the electricity markets of...Killer Loan Apps and the Entanglements of Digital Debt in India
21 Mar 2022
This talk introduces a new research project I will be conducting on digital lending and everyday forms of indebtedness in India through an analysis of scandals...Why Hold a Winter Solstice Ceremony Once in 24 Years and Then Never Again?
7 Mar 2022
In early July 1972, a Warlpiri man invited me to a ceremony he was organising to shorten the night. As a new arrival in central Australia, I assumed that this...Sorcery Accusation Related Violence: Fighting the Wildfire of SARV
28 Feb 2022
This seminar outlines some of the main findings of the project ‘Improving the Impact of State and Non-State Interventions in Overcoming Sorcery Accusation...“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...
