2025 Seminars
All seminars are held on Mondays.
In person/hybrid events will run 3pm-4.30pm
Zoom only events will run 3pm-4pm
Location(s): TBD
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, Anna-Sophie Jurgens, Assa Dorron, Caroline Schuster Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
In person
18 August 2025
Georgia Curran, Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desert
In person
15 September 2025
TBC
22 September 2025
Nikita Simpson, How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
In person
29 September 2025
TBC
13 October 2025
Ingjerd Hoem, Decolonization as a State Project. New Zealand and Tokelau
In person
20 October 2025
Ton Otto,The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
In person
Contact
- Tim McLellan
Upcoming Events
The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Ton Otto (Aarhus University)
Win Neisen is a local, indigenously developed church, that is the contemporary manifestation of the well-known Paliau Movement which started in Manus…
Past Events
Indigenous and Scientific Research Methods: Deception, Myth in Academic Psychology and American Indian Communities
Yancey Orr
The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between Indigenous and Western…
Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
Shreyas Sreenath
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups,…
Chicken Shit and Bare Life: the ritual economy of India's chickens
Assa Doron
This talk delves into the complexities of India's evolving poultry industry, reflecting on the social, cultural and economic aspects to do with the…