Pre-Fieldwork Seminar (28 Sep) by Ruonan Chen: Making a hospital— an ethnographic study of how aid shapes the functioning of a county hospital in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China.

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Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope Building Time: 3pm, Friday 28th September Abstract: Hospital is the key institution that matters to each and every individual’s health. How it is managed and developed are fundamental for the welfare of individual human being. I aim to study the everyday practice of a county-level hospital in TAR and how it is shaped by the efforts of development aid to strengthen the health delivery […]

Wednesday Seminar (26 Sep) by Prof. Heather Horst: Free Culture and Mobile Phone Gift Economies in the Pacific

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Time:26 September, 9:30-11:00 am Venue: Room 1.13, Coombs Extension Building Abstract: Over the last ten years, the liberalization of telecommunications markets in many Pacific Islands countries has spurred exponential growth in the distribution and use of mobile phones.  Mobile telecommunications companies spurred the growth of mobile phone penetration through aggressive advertising and a series of promotions offering […]

Upcoming conference (11 Oct): ‘Ideals and Projects of Perfection’

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We hope you will be interested in attending some or all of the event, and that you can indicate your interest by registering at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ideals-and-projects-of-perfection-flagship-event-tickets-48579124469 The preliminary schedule is as follows. Titles will likely be tweaked, of course, but the schedule itself should be stable: 8:15-8:30: welcome from Simon Haberle 8:30-9:00: Tomoko Akami, ‘On perfection and realities: Quantification […]

Upcoming Seminar (21 Sep): ‘Gender, Language and Videogames’ Norma Mendoza-Denton

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Friday 21 September, 3:30pm Basham room, Baldessin level 2, ANU In her anthropological account as a participant observer in the World of Warcraft MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), Bonnie Nardi (2010) provides an analysis of the gendered dynamics of video games, noting that many games include elements that are unappealing to women, such as […]

Post-fieldwork Seminar (21 Sep): ‘Married at Fifteen: Love, School and Growing up Karen in Mae Hong Son’ Dayne O-Meara

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Come along this Friday for Dayne O’Meara’s post-fieldwork seminar.  Same time and place as usual! Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope Building Time: 3pm, Friday 21st September Speaker: Dayne O’Meara Abstract For the students of a Karen village school in northern Thailand, potential breaches of sexual morality are heavily monitored and policed by teaching staff. At the same time […]

Public lecture by Dr. Michael W. Scott (20 Sep): Prophetic temporalities: Predicting and proliferating futures in Melanesia and anthropology

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Time: Thursday, 20 September 2018; 3:00 – 5:00 pm Venue: Brindabella Theatre, JG Crawford Building   A place name, Tarai‘anawe (Path-of-the-tern), predicts that an airstrip will be built nearby.  Sand cast up on a rocky coastline by rough seas reveals that something will come to the island.  The death, dismemberment, and regeneration of a freshwater eel, as narrated […]

Friday Pre-Fieldwork Seminar (14 September): The Negotiation of Identities among Female Cham Muslim Migrants in Urban Vietnam

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Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope Building Time: 3pm, Friday 14 September  Speaker: Anh Vu  Abstract:  Vietnam is a multi-ethnic nation and the Cham is one of fifty-four state-recognized ethnic groups. Cham people belong to three main religions: Hinduism, Bani Islam and Sunni Islam. In this project, my main aim is to understand the life experiences of Cham […]

Masterclass with Michael W. Scott (19 Sep): ‘In search of a debate; or, where can your ethnographic research make a contribution?’

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We are having a bountiful harvest of visitors this spring, and there will be another master class offered soon, this one from Michael W. Scott of the London School of Economics<http://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/michael-scott>. Date and time: Wednesday, 19 September, 2:00-4:00 pm Location: TBA Topic: In search of a debate; or, where can your ethnographic research make a contribution? Description: […]

Upcoming seminar (18 Sep): Stuart Kirsch, ‘Science, objectivity, and political responsibility in the litigation of two oil spills’

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As you might know, there are no Wednesday seminars for the next two weeks due to the mid-semester break. However, when we meet again, there will be two exciting seminars, a special public lecture from Stuart Kirsch on Tuesday, 18 September, from 2:00-4:00 and the regular Wednesday morning seminar on the 19th, which will feature Michael W. Scott of the London School […]

The Colours of Anthropology: A visual anthropology photography exhibition (Sep 14)

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The Colours of Anthropology photography exhibition is an exploration of sensory ethnography with a particular focus on colour. It showcases the photographs of ANU anthropologists taken during their research “in the field” in various places around the world. The exhibition is a window into the beauty and dynamics of ethnographic inquiry, a way for ANU’s […]