2026 Seminars
Unless specifically stated for a particular talk, all seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom. For the full schedule, please check the PDF below.
Time: Mondays 1-2 pm (except for public holidays and semester teaching break)
Location(s): Check individual events for more details.
Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82431454032?pwd=owA39nWqTYm2TGOcC0sWa9bEDVangD.1
Semester 2 2026 - Schedule:
- 3 August 2026 - Marie Kolling
- 10 August 2026 - Siobhan McDonnell
- 17 August 2026 - Stefanie Puszka (Online event only)
- 24 August 2026 - Judit Kroo (Online event only)
- 31 August 2026 - Timothy Neale
- 21 September 2026, 1-2:30 pm - Special event: Amanda Kearney, Lucas Bessire, and Sophie Chao in conversation with Yasmine Musharbash
- 28 September 2026 - Marek Pawlak (This seminar is supported by Norden@ANU, an Australia-Nordic research initiative in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology)
- 12 October 2026 - Zeynel Gül (Online event only)
- 19 October 2026 - Possum Lab with Chitra V and Adam Sargent
- 26 October 2026 - Meherose Borthwick (This seminar is supported by the ANU South Asian Research Institute -SARI)
File attachments
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Contact
- Kirsty Wissing
Upcoming Events
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
Timothy Neale (Deakin University)
This past summer, wildfires again washed across southeast Australian landscapes, affecting over 500,000 hectares. Many of the forests that have…
Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony
Amanda Kearney (San Diego State University),, Lucas Bessire (Colorado School of Mines), and, Sophie Chao (University of Sydney) , in conversation with Yasmine Musharbash (ANU School of Archaeology & Anthropology)
This seminar will take a different format. The idea behind a super review is to provide HDR students and ECRs with some insights into how a review…
Haunting Futures. Time, Affect and Crisis in Iceland
Marek Pawlak (Jagiellonian University)
The seminar engages with ethnographic exploration of how the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising state with far…
Past Events
Eating Abuse: Caste, Class and the Figure of Labour
Adam Sargent (ANU)
This paper explores how workers negotiate a stigmatized social category known as “labour”. On the surface this category appears to be a…
Roads, plantations and consultants: Road-building and multiple territorializations in Pomio, Papua New Guinea
Tuomas Tammisto (Tampere University, Finland)
Pomio is a large, sparsely populated and remote rural district of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Large parts of the district are…
The paradox of welfare autonomy: poverty, employment, and consumer dependency in remote Australia
Emeritus Professor Nicolas Peterson
This will be an in-person only seminar. In this talk, Emeritus Professor Nic Peterson will consider the paradox of welfare autonomy in remote…