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
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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
Put Your Mask On! Contractual Sociality at Work in the Pandemic
Ilana Gershon, Indiana University
For many Americans, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced them to re-evaluate how the workplace functions as a site of private government. In every…
The State-Issued ‘Identity Card’ as Visual Medium in Postauthoritarian Indonesia
Benjamin Hegarty, University of Melbourne
In the political environment that followed the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (approx. ’65-‘98), various minority groups assert that access to…
Wild Policy: a theory, method and activation
Tess Lea
In this talk, anthropologist Tess Lea will speak to her new book, Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention (2020, Stanford UP…