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 Mystery of the Almost Disappearing Naga: On Urbanization and Cosmopolitics in Bangkok
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (Chulalongkorn Uni)
Presented online only - Zoom details belowWhat might the precarious persistence of the naga in Bangkok’s critical zones illuminate about entangled…
Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean
Nidhi A Mahajan (UC Santa Cruz)
Presented online only - Zoom details belowMoorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on…
Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
V. Chitra (ANU), Anna-Sophie Jurgens (ANU), Assa Dorron (ANU), Caroline Schuster (ANU)
Join us for a panel discussion of V. Chitra's new book, Drawing Coastlines. In this book, V. Chitra reveals the ways that…
Past Events
The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
Emma Kowal, Deakin University
In the dry season of 1889 on the remote northwest coast of Australia, a station manager with a violent past went in search of a white man rumoured to…
How shopping centres and other modern public spaces transform human consciousness
Dr Leo Couacaud, University of Sydney
The study of shopping centres, or “malls”, is now an established subfield in anthropology and urban studies. Yet strangely, few (if any) of these…
The ‘three hearths’: Custom, religion and the state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
Tom Powell Davies, Univeristy of Sydney/ University of Queensland
In Melanesia and Indonesia, socio-political life frequently centres around a tripartite relationship between custom, religion and state government.…