
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 - 6 pm (check event for more details)
CAS/CAR Science Week - Prof. Ali Crowther, University of Queensland
Stepping Stones in the Indian Ocean: New Archaeological Evidence for Trade and Interaction in the Comoros Archipelago, East Africa
- August 28
Assoc. Prof. Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner-Gren Foundation
Reckoning with Anthro-Cast: A Progress Report from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
- 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
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Contact
- Dr Anna Florin
Upcoming Events
Reckoning with Anthro-Cast: A Progress Report from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Associate Professor Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner Gren Foundation
In 2024, Chip Colwell and I convened a Wenner-Gren Seminar that scrutinised the Foundation's ethical obligations in connection with the Foundation's…
Ritual Places, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Archaeological History of the Torres Strait Meriam Dauareb People
Duncan Wright (ANU)
In Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992), Meriam plaintiffs claimed that they had “continuously inhabited and exclusively possessed” the Murray Islands…
Past Events
Prof David Wengrow: What might an archaeology of freedom look like?
Professor David Wengrow (University College London, UK)
What might an archaeology of freedom look like? In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and I describe three basic forms of human freedom…
The Rite to know: Pushing for an archaeology of rituals in Central-East Polynesia
Dr Guillaume Molle, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology
The archaeology of ceremonial sites (marae) has been a focus of the discipline in Central-East Polynesia since the late 19th century. Pioneer work by…
European Travellers to Greece and the Tomb of the Athenians at Marathon
Estelle Strazdins (Lecturer in Classics, ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics)
This paper traces the interpretations applied to the mound or soros on the plain of Marathon from the later eighteenth century through the…




