Anthropology Seminar Series

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)}

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Marthavale–Barmouth Spur fire, Victoria, 2019. Image credit: Duke University Press and Courtesy Dale Appleton

Aug

2026

How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent

Timothy Neale (Deakin University)

This past summer, wildfires again washed across southeast Australian landscapes, affecting over 500,000 hectares. Many of the forests that have…

An image featured within a section of Yasmine Musharbash’s manuscript titled Dogs of Dystopia. Image credit: Yasmine Musharbash

Sep

2026

Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony

Amanda Kearney (San Diego State University),, Lucas Bessire (Colorado School of Mines), and, Sophie Chao (University of Sydney) , in conversation with Yasmine Musharbash (ANU School of Archaeology & Anthropology)

This seminar will take a different format. The idea behind a super review is to provide HDR students and ECRs with some insights into how a review…

Crane in the lava field. Iceland. Photo by Marek Pawlak

Sep

2026

Haunting Futures. Time, Affect and Crisis in Iceland

Marek Pawlak (Jagiellonian University)

The seminar engages with ethnographic exploration of how the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising state with far…