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
Cattle, Cowpastures and Country
Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Wollongong
When cattle escaped the British colony at Warrane/Sydney Cove, they made their way up river courses where within a few decades they established a…
The Gift of the Cross: Exchange, Peace, and Friendship from Nagasaki’s Atomic Ruins
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Northwestern University
A wooden cross, originally taken by a U.S. soldier from the ruins of the old Catholic Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, was repatriated in August 2019.…
Computing Taste: Care and Control in Algorithmic Music Recommendation
Nick Seaver, Tufts University
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they…