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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The regular Monday-afternoon Anthropology seminar series begins next week on
<b>28 February</b> with a talk from <b>Miranda Forsyth</b> on "</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black !important; background-color: white !important; font-size: 12pt;">Sorcery
Accusation Related Violence: Fighting the Wildfire of SARV." Seminars are free and open to all. We meet from 3:00-4:00pm in the RSSS Building, room 2.56, but will also stream (but not record) the seminars on Zoom: m</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.144px;">eeting
ID: 937 9210 4939, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.144px;">Passcode: 800615.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.144px;">Another Pacific-themed seminar is on
<b>2 May</b>, when </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>T</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>arryn Phillips, Jack Taylor, Edward Narain and Philippa Chandler</b>
(Latrobe University) will present: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black !important; font-size: 12pt;">"'Our Bula Spirit Awaits You!' (When
Borders Reopen): Indigenous Wellbeing and Romanticised Inequality in Post-COVID Tourism Campaigns."</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For those who might be interested, the full semester schedule is:</div>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Monday 28 February 3:00-4:00pm</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Miranda Forsyth, ANU</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Sorcery Accusation Related Violence: Fighting the Wildfire of SARV</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Monday 21 March, 3:00-4:00pm</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Monday 28 March, 3:00-4:00pm</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Monday 2 May, 3:00-4:00pm</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">T<span style="margin:0px">arryn Phillips, John Taylor, Edward Narain and Philippa Chandler, Latrobe University</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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and Romanticised Inequality in Post-COVID Tourism Campaigns</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black"></span></p>
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