[Anthropgrad] Anthropology seminar series

[Melinda Hinkson]

ANU ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES SEMESTER 1, 2008
 
 
Seminars are held 9.30 ­ 11.00 am Wednesdays, Seminar Room A, ground floor,
Coombs building, ANU, all are welcome.
 
 
5 MARCH  Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt: Moving Pictures: Rickshaw art of Bangladesh
 
12 MARCH Sean Kerins: Whaling in the Faroes:  Søtur er Sjalvgivin Biti
 
19 MARCH Ashley Carruthers: Indochinese Cultural Contact Zones
 
26 MARCH Diana Young: Mutable things; the materiality of social relations at
the Ernabella Mission
 
2 APRIL Howard Morphy and Frances Morphy: ŒSoon we will be spending all our
time at funerals¹:change and its consequences in Yolngu mortuary rituals
 
9 APRIL Anton Ploeg: Cowrie Transactions among the Me, Paniai area, West
Papua
 
(BREAK 11 ­ 25 APRIL)
 
30 APRIL Lynne Milgram: Activating Frontier Livelihoods: Women and the
TransnationalSecondhand Clothing Trade between Hong Kong and the Philippines
 
7 MAY Sarah Prout: Security and Belonging: reconceptualising Aboriginal
spatiality in Yamatji country, Western Australia
 
14 MAY Andrew Walker ŒNow the companies have come¹: local values and
contract farming in northern Thailand
 
21 MAY Doug Miles: Afternoon Light on the ŒThailand Controversy¹: A ŒSecret¹
Indochinese War (1968 -1982) and Postgraduate Supervision in Australian
Anthropology (1969-2002)
 
28 MAY Francesca Merlan: Indigeneity: Global and Local
 
4 JUNE Fuyubi Nakamura: Is it Art or Not? The Ambiguous Status of Japanese
Calligraphy
 
 
 
For more information contact Melinda Hinkson, School of Archaeology &
Anthropology, the ANU melinda.hinkson at anu.edu.au, ph 02 6125 8246

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Melinda Hinkson
School of Archaeology & Anthropology
A.D. Hope Building
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 8246
F: +61 2 6125 2711
W: http://arts.anu.edu.au/AandA/

Convenor, Visual Culture Research program
Research School of Humanities
http://rsh.anu.edu.au/vcr.php