ANU Anthropology Seminar: Escaping Natures: an Ethnography of Life and Rent in Gran Sabana, Venezuela

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Speaker: Luis Angosto Ferrandez, Sydney University Date & time: Monday 26 Oct 2020, 3–4 pm Zoom Link: https://anu.zoom.us/j/93792104939?pwd=U25OUWlmamFGTkxjSnF6aE9EK3JNQT09 Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Abstract: Participants in the Wings Project (Proyecto Alas) sublimated all the characteristics of escapist visits to the Gran Sabana region, in southern Venezuela. A few years ago, they trekked to Auyantepuy, […]

ANU PhD Seminar by Justin Lau: Practising Care in Waste Management: An Ethnographic Study of Waste Technology in Cambodia

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Please join us for Justin Lau’s pre-fieldwork seminar. Details below. Title: Practising Care in Waste Management: An Ethnographic Study of Waste Technology in Cambodia Date and Time: Friday October 23rd, from 3-5 pm Location: https://anu.zoom.us/j/89274515027?pwd=SjRnQkUyUHVvUmxRNEh2TkoxZnhMdz09 Meeting ID: 892 7451 5027 Password: 380355 Abstract: This research explores waste technology developed and advanced by community-based organisations (CBOs) in Phnom […]

ANU Anthropology Seminar: Anthropology of Childhood Memory: Family Photographs and Autobiographical Remembering

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Date & time: Mon 19 Oct 2020, 3–4 pm Speaker: Pedram Khosronejad, Western Sydney University Via Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/93792104939?pwd=U25OUWlmamFGTkxjSnF6aE9EK3JNQT09 Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Abstract: In this talk, Ms Helga (Girschik) Griffin and myself will talk about the life story of German civilians who moved to Persia (Iran) during 1930s for the development of country, […]

ANU Anthropology Seminar: Fashion Forward: Rewriting History and Place in Oceania

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Date & time: Monday, 12 October 2020, 3–4 pm Speaker: Kalissa Alexeyeff, The University of Melbourne Via Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/93792104939?pwd=U25OUWlmamFGTkxjSnF6aE9EK3JNQT09Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Abstract: The opening pages of Joanne Entwistle’s book The Fashioned Body (2015) asks an intriguing question: does fashion refer only to dress and adornment found in capitalist modernity? If fashion […]