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
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Past Events
Monsters and Crises
Yasmine Musharbash, ANU
This paper has two aims: (1) to introduce the broader project of Monster Anthropology that my colleague Geir Presterudstuen and I have been working…
The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
Emma Kowal, Deakin University
In the dry season of 1889 on the remote northwest coast of Australia, a station manager with a violent past went in search of a white man rumoured to…
How shopping centres and other modern public spaces transform human consciousness
Dr Leo Couacaud, University of Sydney
The study of shopping centres, or “malls”, is now an established subfield in anthropology and urban studies. Yet strangely, few (if any) of these…