ANU Anthropology

Last semester, you might remember, Prof Heather Horst<https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/heather.horst.php> (University of Sydney) was going to present a master class for HDR candidates and Early Career Researchers, but her plans changed due to illness. The good news is, we have re-scheduled her events, and she will be giving the Wednesday morning seminar on 26 September. And, that afternoon, she will […]

The Cultural Life of Cheese: Gender, Labour & Microbes in US Craft Production? Friday 24th August. The production of artisan cheese in the United States (US) has exploded over the past two decades. Unlike its European counterparts, US artisan cheese emerged on the back of narratives of innovation, and not through historic legacies of pre-industrial artisan production. American Artisan cheese […]

HDRs and Early Career Researchers are invited to a master class with Prof. Stuart Kirsch of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, 18 September. The time is 10am-12pm, and the location is Crawford Seminar Room 3. The topic of the class is Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. Prof. Kirsch will informally discuss his new book by […]

15 August, 9:30-11:00 am, room 1.13, Coombs Extension Building

10 August, 3-5 pm, Milgate Room, AD Hope Building Abstract: “To me, it is the scholar’s obligation to reach out to the public, especially in these times. If anthropologists have insight and knowledge, they should obviously pursue the professional outlet and scholarly monographs. But they should not neglect the public dimension.” Paul Stoller, (2017) Professor of Anthropology […]

Courtney Handman, University of Texas 8 August, 9:30-11:00 am, room 1.13, Coombs Extension Building Abstract: In some strands of contemporary linguistic anthropology and science and technology studies there is a sense that networks constitute the basic form of sociality. According to this line of thinking, one can look underneath the ideologies and meanings that produce nation-states […]