| Date | Title | Presenter |
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November 20, 2008
Seminar Room A
1.30
(Ref no: 359) | Betel nut chewing by pregnant women in Papua New Guinea: Patterns of use and implications for infant health | Dr Michele Senn, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research |
November 19, 2008
Seminar Room C
9.15-12.15
(Ref no: 360) | Seminars by candidates for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow in Natural Hazards | 9.15-10.15am. Dr Geraldine Li, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU. 10.15-11.15 am. Dr Karen McNamara, Tourism, Faculty of Law, Business and Arts, James Cook University. 11.15 am-12.15 pm. Dr Doracie Nantes Department of Geography, University of the Philippines |
November 17, 2008
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 2
3-5
(Ref no: 297) | Research Conversations Series on Diverse Economies: Engagements in East Timor, China and Australia. Second Conversation - What’s missing in the ‘Wenzhou Model’?: Ritual economy and Georges Bataille's notion of 'sovereignty' | Mayfair Yang, Chair and Director of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney Panel of discussants: Assa Doron, Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, RSPAS; Gerda Roelvink, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Geography, RSPAS.
Speakers will introduce their paper for 30 minutes. This will be followed by presentations from the discussants, with one hour left for open discussion. Papers will be made available one week before the seminar.
Convenor: Katherine Gibson, Department of Human Geography, RSPAS |
November 10, 2008
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 2
3-5
(Ref no: 296) | Research Conversations Series on Diverse Economies: Engagements in East Timor, China and Australia. First Conversation - Enlivening development: Water management in the post-conflict city of Baucau, Timor Leste | Lisa Palmer, Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne. Panel of discussants: Jon Altman, Professor and Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU; Pyone Myat Thu, PhD Scholar, Department of Human Geography, RSPAS; Aderito Soares, PhD Scholar, Centre for International Governance and Justice, RegNet, RSPAS.
Speakers will introduce their paper for 30 minutes. This will be followed by presentations from the discussants, with one hour left for open discussion. Papers will be made available one week before the seminar.
Convenor: Katherine Gibson, Department of Human Geography, RSPAS |
October 20, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 295) | Finding sitopia: growing community food economies for a 21st century world | M. Ann Hill, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Geography |
September 22, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 289) | Pacific archives – stealing history? | Karina Taylor, Pacific Archivist, Pacific Research Collection, ANU Archives Program |
September 08, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 244) | Theorising water management narratives | Jessica Weir, Research Fellow, AIATSIS |
September 01, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 223) | Food security in the Western Pacific - a 2008 update | Mike Bourke, Department of Human Geography |
July 07, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 199) | Disappearing daughters: planning families, planning gender! | Professor Saraswati Raju, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
July 03, 2008
Innovations Lecture Theatre
11am-12.30pm
(Ref no: 196) | Poverty in rural Papua New Guinea | Mike Bourke, Department of Human Geography |
June 23, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 188) | Displacement, mobility and livelihoods: tracing indigenous routes in rural East Timor | Pyone Myat Thu, PhD Student, Department of Human Geography |
June 04, 2008
Seminar Room C
12.30pm
(Ref no: 163) | Sustainable Use in Papua New Guinea: conservation through private enterprise? | Rob Small, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge |
May 28, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 162) | A postcapitalist politics of dwelling | Gerda Roelvink and Katherine Gibson, Human Geography |
May 26, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 161) | Networks and markets: mapping the betel nut trade in PNG | Tim Sharp, PhD candidate, Department of Human Geography |
May 19, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 147) | Bodies on the line: displacing moral laws and social norms in mass anti-globalisation actions | Maria Hynes, School of Social Sciences, ANU, and Scott Sharpe, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA |
May 05, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 141) | De-naturalising childhood | Dr Affrica Taylor, Senior Lecturer Sociology and Cultural Studies, University of Canberra |
April 21, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 136) | Insular societies of Vanuatu, management of the agro biodiversity of root crops and globalization: a brief overview of a fieldwork experience | Sara Muller, Visiting PhD Candidate from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg |
March 31, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 113) | Training tools for the community economy: making an interactive CD for independent use | (Margaret) Ann Hill, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Geography |
March 05, 2008
Seminar Room C
12.30pm
(Ref no: 110) | Ethnographies of social enterprises in the US and the Philippines | Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts and Katherine Gibson, Department of Human Geography |
February 11, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 37) | Reading tropical geographies of Asia for diverse cultural economic practices | Katherine Gibson and Gerda Roelvink, Department of Human Geography |
January 16, 2008
Seminar Room C
12.30pm-1.30pm
(Ref no: 3) | Ramu Agri-Industries Ltd: more than just a sugar producer in PNG | Dr Lastus Kuniata, Senior Principal Scientist, Ramu Agri-Industries Limited, PNG |
January 14, 2008
Seminar Room C
3.30pm
(Ref no: 2) | Imaginative Geographies of the Australian Geographic: The (re)construction of Australia 1990-2004 | Andrew Wilson, Summer Research Scholar, Department of Human Geography |
