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
Past Events
Credit as care and financial frontier. An ethnography of predatory inclusion under Brazil’s ‘fintech revolution’
Marie Kolling (Danish Institute for International Studies)
In Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a rise in poverty and accelerated the already ignited ‘fintech revolution,’ pushing a policy agenda of…
Making the Subjects of Racism: Icelandic People and a Plaster Bust Collection in the Canary Islands
Professor Kristín Loftsdóttir (the University of Iceland)
In 1856, several plaster busts were created by a French expedition in Iceland and Greenland, revealing one of the many ways these countries were a…
The Real and the Created in Ethnographic Film: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University)
Ethnographic filmmakers often struggle to balance the need to let people speak for themselves with the need to create a coherent presentation through…