Anthropology Seminar Series
Contacts
2021 Seminars
Zoom Link
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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 3:00-4:00pm
Courtney Handman, University of Texas – Austin
Unnatural Languages: Conversion, Deception, and the Colonial Limits of the Human
Monday 16 August 3:00-4:00pm
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
Warlpiri Materiality
Monday 20 September 3:00-4:00pm
Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington
TBA
Monday 27 September 3:00-4:00pm
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
The Ethical, the Political, and the Moral Economy
Monday 25 October 3:00-4:00pm
Holly High, Deakin University
“Can You Policy”? Policy as a Verb in Lao PDR
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Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Contact Email: soaa.admin.cass@anu.edu.au
Upcoming events
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
3pm 2 Aug – 4pm 3 Aug 2021
Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim 'frontier peasants', 'savage...The Marginal Languages of Colonial Belief
12–1pm 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...Of Winds, Worms and Fertility: The Meci Festival in Timor-Leste
12–1pm 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...Weedy Finance: Weather Insurance and Parametric Life on Unstable Grounds
3–4pm 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...Past events
Humanitarian Confessions: Ethnography, Autobiography and the Locations of Religion in Aidland
24 May 2021
Humanitarian autobiographies provide compelling windows for analysing the locations of religion within the international aid and development sector. Free from...Post Apocalypse Stress Syndrome in the Age of COVID-19
17 May 2021
Post Apocalypse Stress Syndrome predicts that societies can experience shocks so strong that they change the very nature of the society itself. Previous...The Known and the Unknown: Sensing Others in the Batek's Forest, Malaysia
10 May 2021
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as being ‘closer to nature’. Challenging this simplistic narrative, this talk explores how Batek people in Pahang speak...Put Your Mask On! Contractual Sociality at Work in the Pandemic
3 May 2021
For many Americans, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced them to re-evaluate how the workplace functions as a site of private government. In every workplace, there...The State-Issued ‘Identity Card’ as Visual Medium in Postauthoritarian Indonesia
19 Apr 2021
In the political environment that followed the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (approx. ’65-‘98), various minority groups assert that access to...Wild Policy: a theory, method and activation
29 Mar 2021
In this talk, anthropologist Tess Lea will speak to her new book, Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention (2020, Stanford UP). The book...Founders and Settlers: Unpacking Indigeneity among the Higaunon Lumad in Mindanao
15 Mar 2021
In the Philippines, there is a stark disconnect between the static notion of indigeneity legalised by the state and the emic concepts employed by Indigenous...Escaping Natures: an Ethnography of Life and Rent in Gran Sabana, Venezuela
26 Oct 2020
Participants in the Wings Project (Proyecto Alas) sublimated all the characteristics of escapist visits to the Gran Sabana region, in southern Venezuela. A few...Anthropology of Childhood Memory: Family Photographs and Autobiographical Remembering
19 Oct 2020
In this talk, Ms Helga (Girschik) Griffin and myself will talk about the life story of German civilians who moved to Persia (Iran) during 1930s for the...Fashion Forward: rewriting history and place in Oceania
12 Oct 2020
The opening pages of Joanne Entwistle’s book The Fashioned Body (2015) asks an intriguing question: does fashion refer only to dress and adornment found in...
