ANU Anthropological Film Series (28 Aug): Sculpting the Spirits

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Dear colleagues Please join us this coming Wednesday, 28 August, at 4-6pm for a free, catered screening of Sculpting the Spirits<https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/sculpting-the-spirits/>. The film will be screened in the Tea Room on the Ground Floor of the Banks Building<https://goo.gl/maps/CVui5oBoGW8EXTHf6>. Enter via Linnaeus Way, and follow the signs through the central courtyard. Refreshments (including cheese) will be […]

ANU Anthropology Seminar Series (28 Aug): Siad Darwish on ‘Dual Exposure: Transcendental Harm in the Islamic Ontology of Pollution in Tunisia’

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Dear All, please join us for next week’s Anthropology Seminar: DUAL EXPOSURE: TRANSCENDENTAL HARM IN THE ISLAMIC ONTOLOGY OF POLLUTION IN TUNISIA Wednesday 28 August 9.30-11am Speaker Dr. Siad Darwish, University of Wollongong Location Kambri Precinct Marie Reay 3.03, ANU About the Lecture: Exposure to harmful substances typically occurs through the entanglements of bodies and […]

ANU PG Seminar Series (23 Aug): Paul Hayes ‘Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan’

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Please join us this Friday, August 23 at 3pm, for Paul Hayes’ post-fieldwork seminar. Details are below. Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14 Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday, August 23 Speaker: Paul Hayes Abstract: This post-fieldwork seminar examines the bodily practices and related material culture of young […]

Wednesday Seminar (21 Aug): Ken George ‘When Work is Worship: Technology, Labor and the Figure of Vishwakarma, ‘Maker of the Universe”

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Please join us for this week’s Anthropology Seminar: When Work is Worship: Technology, Labor and the Figure of Vishwakarma, ‘Maker of the Universe’ Speaker: Ken George, Australian National University When: Wednesday 21 August 9.30-11am Where: Kambri Precinct Marie Reay 3.03, ANU Although Vishwakarma worship in India has long been associated with hereditary artisan castes and […]

Symposium (15 Aug): Language and the Anthropology of Communication in Honour of Alan Rumsey

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Please join us to celebrate the work of Professor Alan Rumsey on Thursday 15 August 2019 from 10.45am until 5.00pm in the Common Room, University House at the Australian National University   Program 10.45am-11.00am Welcome to Country 11.00am-11.20am Introductory Remarks Simon Haberle and Nick Evans (ANU) 11.20am-12.20pm Relating a language’s lexico-grammatical genius to its speakers’ ideology, aesthetics, […]

HDR Seminar (16 Aug): Kathryn McHarry ”’Just Exhaustion!”: Motherhood, work, and human capital investment in Senegal’

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Please join us this Friday, 3PM, August 16, for Kathryn McHarry’s guest HDR seminar ‘Just Exhaustion!’: Motherhood, work, and human capital investment in Senegal Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14, Australian National University Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday 16 August Speaker: Kathryn McHarry, University of Chicago Abstract: Over the past two decades, the Senegalese state has […]

Wednesday ANU Anthropological Film Series (14 Aug): The Iron Ministry

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Please join us this coming Wednesday, 14 August, at 4-6pm for a free, catered screening of The Iron Ministry<https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/movies/review-the-iron-ministry-uses-train-passengers-to-tell-chinas-story.html>. Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys […]

Wednesday Seminar Series (14 Aug): Margaret Jolly ‘Engendering the Anthropocene in Oceania: Fatalism, Resilience, Resistance

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Please join us at next week’s Anthropology Seminar  for Professor Margaret Jolly’s talk: ENGENDERING THE ANTHROPOCENE IN OCEANIA: FATALISM, RESILIENCE, RESISTANCE Wednesday 14 August 9.30?11am Location : Marie Reay 3.03, Kambri Precinct ANU About the Talk: The concept of the Anthropocene, as Dipesh Chakrabarty observes, confounds Eurocentric distinctions of natural and human history. But who […]

Australian Anthropological Society presents the 7th Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology: David Trigger on ‘Native Title: Implications for Australian Senses of Place and Belonging’

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As part of Social Sciences Week 2019, the Australian Anthropological Society presents the 7th Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology. All welcome, free admission Date: Thursday, 12 September 2019 Time: 5:30 – 7pm Venue: Lotus Hall, Australian Centre for China in the World, Australian National University Registrations: https://www.aas.asn.au/eventdetails/4149/aas-distinguished-lecture-in-anthropology Native title in Australia is a significant issue for Indigenous […]

Seminar (7 Aug): Michael Herzfeld ‘Subversive Archaism: When Local Communities Exceed State Traditionalism – and Suffer the Consequences’

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7 August 2019 11:30-12:30 SWRB 2.02 Drawing on fieldwork in Thailand and Greece, and on comparative examples from other parts of the world, the speaker will address what happens when local communities adopt the rhetoric of heritage promotion or traditional lifestyle and find themselves under attack by nation-state authorities as a result.  The speaker will […]