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
Blood ties: Kinship, reciprocity and love on heritage breed farms
Catie Gressier, The University of Western Australia
Fantasies of human mastery over nature are difficult to sustain as a 125 nanometre virus wreaks havoc across the globe, while the ecological crisis…
“Here I can Like Watermelon”: Culinary Redemption among African Hebrew Israelites
Nir Avieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Every May, The African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC), a transnational millenarian group with its headquarters in the Israeli desert town of…
“Our village name is spreading like fire”: Gold fever in a Sepik society, PNG
Darja Hoenigman, ANU
When the Awiakay discovered gold on their land, a cascade of dramatic changes shook their society to its roots. The village all but emptied out with…