News and Events in the Department of Anthropology
Departmental Seminars, Semester 2 2008
Venue: The Meeting Room,
148 Level 1, Mills Building (A26)
Time: Thursday, 3-6 pm
Note: There is no seminar on the first Thursday of each month. All staff, students, research associates and others with an interest in the topic/s presented and in critical intellection in general are welcome. Drinks and informal discussion will follow the seminar.
- August 7
Colin Filer, Australian National University
Kokoda Carbon Conundrum Country: Revisiting Rent Collection in Rumal PNG - August 14
Margaret Jolly, Australian National University
Beyond the Blue: Revisioning Gender and Sexuality on Cook’s Voyages in the Pacific - August 21
Diane Austin-Broos, The University of Sydney
Translating Christianity: Some Keywords, Events and Sites in Western Arrernte Conversion - September 4
Sheleyah Courtney, The University of Sydney
Savitri’s Story: Sagacity, Suffering and ‘Self-Liberation’ - September 11
Jane Ferguson, The Australian National University
Rocking in Shanland: Burmese Popular Music and Ethnographies of Borderlands Bands - September 18
Gaynor MacDonald, University of Sydney
Aboriginal Civic Culture and the Death of Death - October 9
Wolfram Dressler, University of Queensland
Neither Here nor There: Negotiating the Middle Ground of the Agrarian Transition on Palawan Island, the Philippines - October 16
Isabelle Rivoal, CNRS – Laboratoire d’ethnologie, Paris
Drama, Plays and Violence: An Anthropology of Political Passiom in Lebanon - October 23
Andrew Walker, The Australian National University
Resistance? Hegemony? Experimentation? Farmers, companies and the state in northern Thailand
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Convenor: Holly High
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