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
TBA
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 07, 3:00-4:00pm
Muhammad Kavesh
Becoming-Donkey: Encountering Vulnerability in Pakistan
October 14, 3:00-4:00pm
Sudiipta Dowsett
Rebel Sistah Cypher: research, activism and creative practice
October 21, 3:00-4:00pm
Jason Gibson
TBA
Semester 1 2024
Anthropology_Seminar_1_2024.pdf
Upcoming events
Kincentric political reform in Iceland after elite corruption
3–4pm 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...The moral atmosphere of rule-dense elections: Creative relationality and forceful enforcement in Australian local politics
3–4pm 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...The ‘three hearths’: Custom, religion and the state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
3–4pm 12 Aug 2024
In Melanesia and Indonesia, socio-political life frequently centres around a tripartite relationship between custom, religion and state government. Building on...How shopping centres and other modern public spaces transform human consciousness
3–4pm 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 white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
3–4pm 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...The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and the Event
3–4pm 20 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
3–4pm 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...Becoming-Donkey: Encountering Vulnerability in Pakistan
3–4pm 7 Oct 2024
In present-day Pakistan, the donkey has become a poignant symbol of pollution and drudgery, often relegating their keepers to social marginalization. This talk...Past events
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...Platform Economies: Beyond the North-South Divide
20 May 2024
Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and...Unsettling nature: Cross-cultural conversations about potential bioengineered conservation in the Torres Strait, Australia
13 May 2024
Applied over generations, a bioengineered gene drive promises to radically reduce invasive species’ populations through suppressed breeding. As this technology...An ordeal of peoplehood: representations of Indigenous collectivity in the 2023 referendum - POSTPONED
6 May 2024
Presenting themselves as sovereign peoples (and not just as citizens of Australia), Indigenous Australians struggle over therms in which to represent their...From Applied to Expert Social anthropology: Emerging Concepts, Terms, and Definitions
29 Apr 2024
Since the 1970s, applied social anthropology has developed into the field’s best-known and most widely adopted specialization. In the 2018 Global Survey of...Oyster Restoration as More-than-Human Embodied Practice of Metabolism
22 Apr 2024
Local oyster producers and fisheries experts in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan's primary oyster-producing region, have observed a decline in oyster growth over...Masterclass with Yancey Orr
19 Apr 2024
Masterclass objectives: Advancements in both anthropology and science followed their departures from the use of broad moral frames to understand information....Indigenous and Scientific Research Methods: Deception, Myth in Academic Psychology and American Indian Communities
15 Apr 2024
The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between Indigenous and Western scientific ways...Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
25 Mar 2024
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups, clogged sewers,...Chicken Shit and Bare Life: the ritual economy of India's chickens
18 Mar 2024
This talk delves into the complexities of India's evolving poultry industry, reflecting on the social, cultural and economic aspects to do with the shift from...
