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:
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Meeting ID: 812 1179 0732
Password: 968025
Semester 2 2023
July 24, 3:00-4:00pm
Timothy Neale **Zoom Only
Flexible Fires: Cultural Burning and the Settler-Indigenous Interface
August 7, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Lisa Palmer **Zoom Only
Holding Tightly: Co-Mingling, Life-Flourishing and Filmic Ecologies
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
Hildaland, or, Bringing the Ice: Reflections on Missing Persons, Intermittent Islands, and the Ethnography of Uncertain Presence
October 9, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Natasha Fijn
Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia
October 16, 3:00 - 4:00pm
V. Chitra
Drawing the Climate Crisis
October 23, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Josh Wodak **Zoom Only
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
Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia
3–4pm 9 Oct 2023
One aspect that mammals have in common, including ourselves, is the recognition of a home. In Mongolia the herding encampment (khot ail) is the joint ‘home’...Drawing the Climate Crisis
3–4pm 16 Oct 2023
Abstract TBC V. Chitra is an anthropologist and her work intersects environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, and visual studies. She has a...The Tragedy of the (Global) Commons: A Divided Anthropos Encounters (Abrupt) Climate Change
3–4pm 23 Oct 2023
At the advent of the Anthropocene, life is being pushed to its limits the world over; we are currently living through the Sixth Mass Extinction to occur since...Past events
Hildaland, or, Bringing the Ice: Reflections on Missing Persons, Intermittent Islands, and the Ethnography of Uncertain Presence
25 Sep 2023
Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long-term fieldwork on an...These Days, These Homes: Miao domesticity, Chinese modernity
18 Sep 2023
Please note this seminar is available via Zoom only These Days, These Homes is a work in progress film project centered on the lives and homes of two Miao...After You: Reflections on More-Than-Human Hospitality in South Asia
28 Aug 2023
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and...Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
21 Aug 2023
Please note this event is available via Zoom only This talk explores the cultural, political, and affective significance of mourning among the Indigenous...Holding Tightly: Co-mingling, life-flourishing and filmic ecologies
7 Aug 2023
Please note this event is available via Zoom only Firmly emplaced within a soundscape incorporating movement, prayer, music, human-made and environmental...Flexible fires: cultural burning and the settler-Indigenous interface
24 Jul 2023
Please note this event is available via Zoom only “What exactly is cultural burning?” During the seven years that I have been researching the revitalisation...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’...
