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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Matt Tomlinson
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 11 September 2018 3:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Yanhong Ouyang <yanhong.ouyang@anu.edu.au>; Katherine Daniell <katherine.daniell@anu.edu.au>; Miranda Forsyth <miranda.forsyth@anu.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Announcement for PI list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Hi PI gang,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">I hope this announcement about Michael W. Scott's public lecture next week can be circulated to the PI list:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002060">Public Lecture</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Prophetic temporalities: Predicting and proliferating futures in Melanesia and anthropology </span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Michael W. Scott</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Associate Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Thursday, 20 September 2018</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">3:00 – 5:00 pm</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Brindabella Theatre, JG Crawford Building</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">A place name, Tarai‘anawe (Path-of-the-tern), predicts that an airstrip will be built nearby. Sand cast up on a rocky coastline by rough seas reveals that something will
come to the island. The death, dismemberment, and regeneration of a freshwater eel, as narrated in an old story, foretells the death and resurrection of Jesus. These are examples of what the Arosi people of Solomon Islands call <i>kastom profesi</i> (traditional
prophecy). But what do such diverse forms of prognostication imply about the nature of prophecy? What modes of temporality and spatiality, what orientations to the future and to truth, do they presuppose? Through a comparison of Arosi <i>kastom profesi</i> with
academic discourses that cast prophecy as the proliferation of unpredictable futures, this lecture theorizes two modes of prophecy, one correlated with spatialized temporality and the other with pure duration. In so doing, it also proposes a model of ‘totemic
prophecy’ as a type of the former, bringing the theorization of temporality into dialogue with comparative ontology.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Sponsored by</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Research School of Humanities and the Arts</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Anthropology Program, CHL/CAP</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Inquiries:
<a href="mailto:matt.tomlinson@anu.edu.au">matt.tomlinson@anu.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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