Day: October 8, 2019

ANU PG Seminar Series (11 Oct): Michael Dunford ‘Pickled Tea in Myanmar: Social Snacks across the Upland-Lowland Frontier’

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Please join us this Friday, October 11th, for Michael Dunford’s pre-fieldwork TPR. Details are below. Title: Pickled Tea in Myanmar: Social Snacks across the Upland-Lowland Frontier Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14 Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday, October 11 Speaker: Michael Dunford Abstract: “Pickled tea, one of Myanmar’s favourite snacks, supposedly emerged as the byproduct of […]

ANU Anthropological Film Series (9 Oct): Leitis in Waiting

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Dear colleagues, Please join us today at 4pm for our final anthropological film screening of 2019. We are screening the acclaimed Leitis in Waiting<https://www.leitisinwaiting.com/> (2018), which documents the stories of Tongan transgender women. This is the story of an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in their […]

ANU Anthropology Seminar Series (9 Oct): Francesca Merlan ‘Ghost Twitter in Australia: Sentience, Agency and Ontological Difference’

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Please join us for our Anthropology this week. https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/events/ghost-twitter-australia-sentience-agency-and-ontological-difference Ghost Twitter in Australia: Sentience, Agency and Ontological Difference Wed 09 Oct 2019, 9.30am-11pm Room 3.03, Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Building 155, Kambri Precinct, Australian National University Abstract: In this paper, I argue that distinguishing between attributions of sentience and agency is a crucial analytical step […]