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
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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
"Our Bula Spirit Awaits You!" (When Borders Reopen): Indigenous Wellbeing and Romanticised Inequality in Post-COVID Tourism Campaigns
Tarryn Phillips, La Trobe University, John Taylor, La Trobe University, Edward Narain, RMIT, Philippa Chandler, University of Melbourne
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Much recent commentary posits Covid-19 as an opportunity to reset the…
Real Time in Rear View: Temporal Acts in Markets of Electricity
Canay Ozden-Schilling, National University of Singapore
This paper explores what “real time” means to market actors. My focus is on the traders, market designers, and engineers acting in the electricity…
Killer Loan Apps and the Entanglements of Digital Debt in India
Adam Sargent, Western Sydney University
This talk introduces a new research project I will be conducting on digital lending and everyday forms of indebtedness in India through an analysis…