The Department of Anthropology, in conjunction with the School of Archaelogy and
Anthropology in the Faculties, sponsors two weekly seminars for all staff and graduate students: Wednesday-morning Joint Anthropology Seminars; and the Friday afternoon Graduate Seminars.
At Wednesday-morning Joint Anthropology seminars, members of staff or anthropologists visiting the ANU from elsewhere in
Australia or overseas present the results of their research for discussion and debate. These seminars are held in Seminar Room A in the Coombs Building and commence at 9.30am.
| Date | Title | Presenter |
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Wednesday, 25 March Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 479) | The Cultural Shaping of Psychosocial Cognition: what Grammatical Diversity can tell us | Nicholas Evans, RSPAS, ANU |
Wednesday, 1 April Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 482) | Salsa China: The Music of Chinese Immigration to Cuba | Adrian Hearn, Sociology, University of Sydney |
Wednesday, 8 April Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 483) | Hospital Nation: Biomedicine and Development in Papua New Guinea | Alice Street, Anthropology, University of Sussex |
Wednesday, 29 April Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 484) | Splitting the Atom of Kinship: The Symbolic Economy of the Warlpiri Fire Ceremony | John Morton, Anthropology, La Trobe University |
Wednesday, 6 May Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 485) | Spaces of Negotiation: Culture at the Margin of the Law | Ghassan Hage, Anthropology, University of Melbourne |
Wednesday, 13 May Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 486) | Dutch women in Bali: contested notions of citizenship, race and gender in Dutch-Bali Intimacies | Ana Dragojlovic, RSPAS , ANU |
Wednesday, 20 May Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 487) | Collective Responsibility and the Politics of Social Remembering in post-apartheid South Africa | Lindi Todd, University of Technology Sydney |
Wednesday, 27 May Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 488) | String: Binding Self to Power in Southeast Asia | Andrew Walker, RSPAS, ANU |
Wednesday, 10 June Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 489) | Geertz and Sahlins on Agency: A Comparison | Don Gardner, Anthropology, ANU |
Wednesday, 22 July Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 635) | The Jodhpur in History: Anthropologists, bushwalkers, artists, metaphysicians and other progressives between the wars | Peter Sutton (University of Adelaide) |
Wednesday, 29 July Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 636) | Stanley Tambiah's legacy and an anthropology of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand | James Taylor (University of Adelaide) |
Wednesday, 5 August Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 644) | Block that Metaphor? Personhood, Citizenship and the Corporation | Robert Foster (University of Rochester) Professor Robert Foster (Rochester, New York)
Distinguished Visitor to Gender Relations Centre and Department of Anthropology, RSPAS, under the Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Award Scheme
June 14 to August 7, 2009
Robert Foster received his M.A. from Columbia University, his Diploma in Social
Anthropology from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago. Before coming to the University of Rochester, he taught in The College
of the University of Chicago. Prof. Foster is also a core faculty member in the
Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester,
New York state. Prof. Foster has done field research in Papua New Guinea since
1984. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in 1991-92
and 1995. His current research interests include nationalism, globalisation,
mass media, material culture and mass consumption. His most recent book is
titled Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). |
Wednesday, 12 August Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 637) | A Genealogy of Genealogy | James Fox (ANU) |
Wednesday, 19 August Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 645) | Materializing Values: Outrigger Structures on the Eastern Half of the Kula Ring | Fred Damon (Anthropology, University of Virginia) |
Wednesday, 26 August Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 638) | Reciprocity in Language and Beyond | Anneliese Kuhle (Linguistics, ANU) |
Wednesday, 2 September Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 639) | Walking while Leb: The racial politics of movement in local spaces | Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney) |
Wednesday, 9 September Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 640) | Translating Christianity: Some keywords, events and sites in Western Arrernte conversion | Diane Austin-Broos (Anthropology, University of Sydney) |
Wednesday, 16 September Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 641) | Culture and the absurd: fashioning Indigeneity in contemporary Australia | Gillian Cowlishaw (UTS) |
Wednesday, 23 September Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 642) | Healing the Land of its Suffering: The John of God Movement in Australia | Cristina Rocha (University of Western Sydney) |
Wednesday, 14 October Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 654) | The magical power of 'baloma' | Mark Mosko (Anthropology, ANU) |
Wednesday, 21 October Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 643) | Warlpiri Diaspora: Concepts and initial impressions (ANU) | Paul Burke (Anthropology, ANU) |
Wednesday, 28 October Seminar Room A 09:30-11:00 (Ref no: 655) | Embodied Biopolitics of Fever | Doreen Montag (Anthropology, ANU) |
The weekly Friday afternoon Graduate Seminar provides an opportunity for postgraduates to discuss their doctoral research
projects with other students and staff and to elicit comments and recommendations, either in preparation for the conduct of their
field research or in organisation of the results.
As part of the Induction Process for entering students, the Anthropology Graduate Programme convenes a weekly First Year Seminar devoted to the reading and critique of classic and contemporary foundational works as well as field methods (see Information for Prospective and Entering PhD Students).