ANU Anthropology

Please join us for Suliljaw Lusausatj’s post-fieldwork seminar. Location: Zoom https://anu.zoom.us/j/99322367249 Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday, May 15 Speaker: Suliljaw Lusausatj My PhD thesis examines two tattooing cultures, in Samoan and Paiwan (Taiwan) villages, seeking to understand how tatau/vecik is practiced and thought of across multiple locations. Ethnographic fieldwork for this thesis has been comparative and engaged, […]

‘GOVERNING WITH A HEAD BUT NO ARMS AND LEGS’: INTER-DEPENDENCY, CO-OPTION AND OPPOSITIONAL MIGRATION POLITICS Monday 18 May 3:00-4:00 pm Speaker: Dr. Sverre Molland, Australian National University Location: Zoom About the Lecture: Safe migration has emerged as a central policy discourse in the Mekong region and elsewhere. Although United Nations agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations dominate […]