Anthropology Seminar Series
Contacts
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 1 2023
Feb 27, 3:00-4:00pm
Hirokazu Miyazaki
The Gift of the Cross: Exchange, Peace, and Friendship from Nagasaki’s Atomic Ruins
Cosponsored by the Japan Institute
March 6, 3:00-4:00pm
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Cattle, Cowpastures and Country
Tuesday March 14, 3:00-4:00pm *Special date
Matthew Gutmann
Remarking the Unmarked: an Anthropology of Masculinity Redux
March 20, 3:00-4:00pm
Mark Mosko
Baloma: The spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand Islands
March 27, 3:00-4:00pm
Annick Thomassin
A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
April 17, 3:00-4:00pm
Annika Lems
Anti-Mobile Placemaking in a Mobile World
April 24, 3:00-4:00pm
Jane Ferguson
Thai Airline Workers and the Transnational Gift
May 1, 3:00-4:00pm
Kathy Robinson
Explorations of Identities Through Visual Representations in Sulawesi, Indonesia
May 8, 3:00-4:00pm
Andrea Petitt **Zoom Only
Horseback Ethnography and Multispecies Intersectionality
May 22, 3:00-4:00pm
Maaike Derksen
The Children of Vincentius
Semester 2 2023
July 24, 3:00-4:00pm
Timothy Neale
Flexible Fires: Cultural Burning and the Settler-Indigenous Interface
July 31, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Victoria Baskin-Coffey
Feral Atlas & Trans-Images : Making Anthropology for ‘The Wild’
August 7, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Lisa Palmer **Zoom Only
Holding Tightly: Co-Mingling, Life-Flourishing and Filmic Ecologies
August 14, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Tom Cliff
How Socialist Women Narrate and Navigate Categories in China
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
TBA
October 9, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Ana Dragojlovic
Queering Mindfulness: Genderqueer Technologies of Self-care
October 16, 3:00 - 4:00pm
V. Chitra
Drawing the Climate Crisis
October 23, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Josh Wodak
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
Queering Mindfulness: Genderqueer Technologies of Self-Care
3–4pm 9 Oct 2023
Over the last decade, the mindfulness movement has brought meditation as a secular practice into the everyday lives of millions of people across the world to...Past events
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,...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...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...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’...Anti-mobile Placemaking in a Mobile World
17 Apr 2023
In this presentation I revisit debates about the socio-cultural importance of place and permanence in a hypermobile world order. I zoom in on everyday...A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
27 Mar 2023
This paper examines the assumptions, institutions and politics of fisheries co-management as they are actualised in the Torres Strait region. In the 1980s,...A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
27 Mar 2023
This paper examines the assumptions, institutions and politics of fisheries co-management as they are actualised in the Torres Strait region. In the 1980s,...Baloma: The spirits of the kula in the Trobriand Islands
20 Mar 2023
Malinowski’s Argonauts (1922) description of Trobriand kula beliefs and practices proved pivotal for the development of modern economic anthropology and,...Remarking The Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux
14 Mar 2023
This lecture critically discusses studies of men and masculinities in anthropology and ethnography from other disciplines, as well as theoretical frameworks...Cattle, Cowpastures and Country
6 Mar 2023
When cattle escaped the British colony at Warrane/Sydney Cove, they made their way up river courses where within a few decades they established a large herd in...
