Pacific Affairs Postgraduate Colloquium (November 29 and 30 2017)

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The Department of Pacific Affairs (formerly SSGM) is having its biennial Postgraduate Colloquium this Wednesday and Thursday (November 29 and 30), at Hedley Bull 2. This edition of the colloquium features no less than six final presentations and three mid-term reviews. These PhD projects, most of which are based on medium or long-term fieldwork, cover a range of topics […]

2017 Vietnam Update: The Politics of Life (20-21 Nov)

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Vietnamese today are questioning ends and means, particularly as they relate to human security. Thirty years after the country’s communist leadership decisively embraced market integration policies, poverty is declining, incomes are rising, and lives and livelihoods are being transformed. However, as regional tensions create new uncertainties, citizens are preoccupied with trust, accountability and control as […]

Mundane Governance Conference: Exploring the Hardwiring, Disappearance & Politics of Everyday Government (22-24 Nov 2017)

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Wed 22 Nov 2017, 9am – Fri 24 Nov 2017, 7pm, Australian National University Our conference will be held in the Sir Roland Wilson Building. The opening will be held in the Theatrette (Room 2.02). Confirmed speakers include Professor Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford Professor Andrew Dawson, University of Melbourne Professor Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra Professor […]

Staff highlight: Assa Doran

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Today is World Toilet Day. You should go and check out the thought-provoking research on the topic by our own Assa Doron. The cultural politics of shit: class, gender and public space in India Assa Doron &Ira Raja, Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 18,(2): 189-207 In this article we seek to interrogate the cultural, political and economic conditions that generate […]

Conference: In their words l in our words – Representations of the Other in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

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Postgraduate and early career research conference Australian National University, 23-24 November 2017 The Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (ANU) is proud to convene its third conference for postgraduates and early career researchers. This two day interdisciplinary conference is open to scholars, students, professionals, and the general public with an interest in the Middle East, […]

New Book: People and Change in Indigenous Australia – ed. Diane Austin-Broos and Francesca Merlan

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“This important collection brings together recent studies on indigenous Aboriginal Australian personhood, while reflecting on earlier studies that draw attention in different ways. The essays point to the disarticulation of relations of people to the land and to the rituals and cosmologies so central to earlier Aboriginal constructions of socio-personal identities; and equally importantly, they […]