
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
Masterclass with Yancey Orr
Yancey Orr
Masterclass objectives: Advancements in both anthropology and science followed their departures from the use of broad moral frames to understand…
Indigenous and Scientific Research Methods: Deception, Myth in Academic Psychology and American Indian Communities
Yancey Orr
The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between Indigenous and Western…
Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
Shreyas Sreenath
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups,…