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Seminars

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.

Joint Anthropology 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.

Enquiries: Andrew McWilliam (andrew.mcwilliam@anu.edu.au), Convenor

PDF version of seminars for semester 2, 2009

Current seminars


DateTitlePresenter
There are currently no seminars posted.

Previous seminars in 2009


DateTitlePresenter
Wednesday, 25 March
Seminar Room A
09:30-11:00
(Ref no: 479)
The Cultural Shaping of Psychosocial Cognition: what Grammatical Diversity can tell usNicholas Evans, RSPAS, ANU
Wednesday, 1 April
Seminar Room A
09:30-11:00
(Ref no: 482)
Salsa China: The Music of Chinese Immigration to CubaAdrian 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 CeremonyJohn 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 LawGhassan 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 IntimaciesAna 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 AfricaLindi 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 AsiaAndrew Walker, RSPAS, ANU
    Wednesday, 10 June
    Seminar Room A
    09:30-11:00
    (Ref no: 489)
    Geertz and Sahlins on Agency: A ComparisonDon 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 warsPeter 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 ThailandJames 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 RingFred Damon (Anthropology, University of Virginia)
    Wednesday, 26 August
    Seminar Room A
    09:30-11:00
    (Ref no: 638)
    Reciprocity in Language and BeyondAnneliese 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 spacesGreg 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 conversionDiane 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 AustraliaGillian 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 AustraliaCristina 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)
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          Friday afternoon Graduate Seminars

          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).

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          Conferences

          Past Conferences

          • Vietnam Update

            11-12 August 2005

            Convenor: Dr Philip Taylor

            Update Theme: Not by Rice Alone: Making Sense of Spirituality in Reform-era Vietnam

            For more information please see
            http://rspas.anu.edu.au/polsoc/Vietnam

          • Cultures, Nations, Identities And Migrations

            Venue: Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House #73, Lennox Crossing, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia

            15-16 April 2004

            For more information please see
            http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/conferences/conference_archive/2004/Cul_Nat_Iden.php

          • Vietnam Update 2003

            Conveners: Dr Philip Taylor, Professor Ben Kerkvliet; Professor David Marr.

            Update Theme: Social Differentiation in Vietnam

            This annual conference was organised jointly between the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (ANU) and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. The program wa in two parts: an update on the economy and political situation in Vietnam and several overseas presentations on the theme of social differentiation in Vietnam.

          • AAS Conference 2002
            Anthropology and Diversity: Disciplinary and Practice Perspectives

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            In October 2002, along with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Gender Relations Centre, the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, the Department of Anthropology hosted the annual meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society at the ANU. Keynote speakers included Prof Stanley Tambiah (Harvard U), Prof Annette Hamilton (Macquarie U) and Prof Chris Anderson. For more information visit the AAS meeting website [ http://www.aas.asn.au/].

          • Sixth Women in Asia Conference

            In 2001, the Anthropology Department in conjunction with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Faculty of Asian Studies, the Women's Caucus and the Asian Studies Association of Australia hosted the Sixth Women in Asia Conference.

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