
2025 Seminars
All seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom.
Time: Mondays 3pm-4.30pm
Location(s): Haydon Allen room 2175, unless indicated otherwise. Check individual events for more details
Zoom:https://anu.zoom.us/j/84128620477?pwd=fRLFaoWlZw7kKJzZZWlCIavoO2pHOX.1
Semester 2 2025
21 July 2025
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, The Mystery of the Almost Disappearing Naga: On Urbanization and Cosmopolitics in Bangkok
Online via Zoom
28 July 2025
Nidhi A Mahajan, Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean
Online via Zoom
11 August 2025
V. Chitra, Assa Dorron, Muhammad Kavesh, Caroline Schuster Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
In person - SDSC Reading Room 3.27, Level 3, Hedley Bull Building
Online via Zoom
18 August 2025
Georgia Curran, Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desert
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
15 September 2025
Eunseon Kim, Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language Problem
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
22 September 2025
Nikita Simpson, How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
29 September 2025
Michael Edwards, Myanmar and the dissonance of salvation
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
13 October 2025
Ingjerd Hoem, Decolonization as a State Project. New Zealand and Tokelau
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
17 October 2025
David Thompson “If I Were His Mother”: Race, Kinship and Redemption in Brazil’s Prisons
In person - Seminar room D, HC Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Rd
Online via Zoom
20 October 2025
Ton Otto,The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
In person - Haydon Allen 2175
Online via Zoom
Contact
- Tim McLellan
Past Events
Myanmar and the dissonance of salvation
Michael Edwards, University of Sydney
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Myanmar and the dissonance of salvationFor about a decade prior to Myanmar’s February 2021 coup,…
How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
Nikita Simpson, CAMHRA
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western HimalayasA litany of…
Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language Problem
Eunseon Kim
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language ProblemThis talk explores…


