Semester 2, 2026

The Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) Seminar Series is convened by Dr Anna Florin (anna.florin@anu.edu.au) 

Seminars are held on Fridays, 3:30pm-4:30pm, in AD Hope building Conference Room (Rm 1.28) and online via Zoom.  See PDF and individual events for more details.

• July 31
  Dr Tristen Jones, University of Sydney
  Exploring Indigenous histories and cross-cultural collecting encounters in German art, archival and material culture collections: The Agnes S Schulz and Frobenius Expedition to Arnhem Land, Australia 1954-1995
   
• August 7
  Makayla Harding, University of Queensland
  People-plant relationship histories on Mithaka Country, southwest QLD: Building an archaeobotanical framework to investigate food production in Aboriginal Australia
   
• August 19
  CAS/CAR Science Week - Prof. Ali Crowther, University of Queensland
  TBC
   
• August 28
  Assoc. Prof. Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner Gren Foundation
  TBC
   
• September 25
  Assoc. Prof. Duncan Wright (co-author: Alo Tapim, Senior Traditional Owner, Meriam Daureb) - School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS
  Ritual Places, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Archaeological History of the Torres Strait Meriam Dauareb People
   
• October 9
  Honours Students - School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS
  Honours Student Short Talks
   
• October 23
  Dr Stacey Ward, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS
  Skeletal Insights into Personhood and Power in Late Prehistoric Thailand