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
Blade, skin and screen: (Re-)assembling self-harm through social media
Anna Lavis, University of Birmingham
Self-harm discussions and images on social media have been a recent focus of concern across academia, policy and the media. Cross-sectoral calls for…
Ghost Twitter in Australia: Sentience, Agency and Ontological Difference
Professor Francesca Merlan
In this paper, I argue that distinguishing between attributions of sentience and agency is a crucial analytical step to take when considering…
In search of social protection: The government of poverty and the evolution of entitlements on Indonesia’s rural periphery
John F McCarthy, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
In response to enduring problems of poverty across the global south, social protection policies (SPPs) have emerged as the main policy approach, with…