[ANU Pacific.Institute] Anthropology seminars, semester 1

[Samuel Bashfield]

Hi all,



The seminar convenors (Simone Dennis, Assa Doron and Matt Tomlinson) are pleased to announce this semester's Wednesday-morning seminars.



All seminars are held from 9:30-11:00 in room 1.13 of the Coombs Extension.


28 February
Chris Gregory, ANU
Why Is the Lotus the Primordial Symbol of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth in India?: Why the Answer Is Obvious to a Midwife but Not to an Economist

7 March
Jane Ferguson, ANU
The Moral Economy of the Pleasant in Southeast Asian Aviation

14 March
Siobhan McDonnell, ANU
Masters of Modernity: Property, Landownership and Masculine Desire

21 March
Jennifer Alexander, ANU
Migration. Imagination and Identity in Modern Sarawak

28 March
Mark Mosko, ANU
>From Semi-darkness to Semi-light: Rupture, Reproduction and Transformation in Trobriand Christian Conversion

18 April
Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne
Revisiting Nostalgia as a Diasporic Cultural Form

25 April
Kathy Robinson, ANU
R.A. Kartini: How a Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Self Became a Floating Signifier in Indonesian Gender Politics

2 May
Heather Horst, University of Sydney
Free Culture and Mobile Phone Gift Economies in the Pacific

9 May
Rebecca Williamson, ANU
Mundane Multiculture and the Spatialities of Mundane Governance

16 May
Holly High
University of Sydney
"Shit Calculation": Open Defecation Free Certification in Laos and Beyond

23 May
Simone Dennis, ANU
Mundane Governance: The Fascinating World of University Timetabling

With best regards,

Matt


Matt Tomlinson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

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