2026 Seminars
Unless specifically stated for a particular talk, all seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom.
Time: Mondays 3pm-4pm (except for public holidays and semester teaching break)
Location(s): H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor (close to the Coombs Lecture theatre) unless indicated otherwise. Check individual events for more details.
Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82431454032?pwd=owA39nWqTYm2TGOcC0sWa9bEDVangD.1
Semester 1 2026
23 February 2026
Simon Coleman
Stretching Cities: On the Neo-Pentecostalization of Urban Space
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
2 March 2026
V. Chitra, Kylie Dolan
Possum Lab: Thinking through Human-Animal Relationships with "Man's Best"
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
16 March 2026
Francesca Merlan
Inside Australian Land Claims: Some Anthropological Perspectives
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
23 March 2026
Hayeon Lee
Korean Dreams, Revisited: Vietnamese Women’s Stories of Repeat Marriage Migration
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
30 March 2026
Malini Sur
Parramatta Redux: Film Screening and Discussion
Online via Zoom
20 April 2026
Arratee Ayuttacorrn
Affective Resilience of Aging: Social Networks and Care Work Among Older Adults in Chiangmai, Thailand
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
4 May 2026
Tim McLellan
PossumLab: Tim McLellan reads King of Bangkok by Sopranzetti et al
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
11 May 2026
Nicolas Peterson
The paradox of welfare autonomy: poverty, employment, and consumer dependency in remote Australia
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
18 May 2026
Tuomas Tammisto
Roads, plantations and consultants: Road-building and multiple territorializations in Pomio, Papua New Guinea
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
25 May 2026
Adam Sargent
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
Contact
- Kirsty Wissing
Upcoming Events
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…
Past Events
Escaping Natures: an Ethnography of Life and Rent in Gran Sabana, Venezuela
Luis Angosto Ferrandez, Sydney University
Participants in the Wings Project (Proyecto Alas) sublimated all the characteristics of escapist visits to the Gran Sabana region, in southern…
Anthropology of Childhood Memory: Family Photographs and Autobiographical Remembering
Pedram Khosronejad, Western Sydney University
In this talk, Ms Helga (Girschik) Griffin and myself will talk about the life story of German civilians who moved to Persia (Iran) during 1930s for…
Fashion Forward: rewriting history and place in Oceania
Kalissa Alexeyeff, The University of Melbourne
The opening pages of Joanne Entwistle’s book The Fashioned Body (2015) asks an intriguing question: does fashion refer only to dress and adornment…