Contemporary Cultures and Societies seminar series
The seminar series of the Anthropology and Development Studies program, The University of Melbourne.
Semester 1, 2013
- Week 2: 5.15pm Wednesday 13th March in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Ramon Spaaij (Latrobe University)
Sport as a means and marker of refugee settlement: promises, pitfalls and dilemmas
- Week 5: 5.15pm Wednesday 10th April in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
- THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
Jennifer Deger (Australian National University)
The jolt of the new: making video art in Arnhem Land
- Week 7: 5.15pm Wednesday 24th April in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Sarah Pink (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Consuming, moving, sensing: a sensory ethnographic approach to movement, media and lighting
- Week 9: 5.15pm Wednesday 8th May in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Simone Dennis (Australian National University)
State regulation of air and public in the 'atmosphere' of smokefree
- Week 11: 5.15pm Wednesday 22nd May in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Tom Apperley (The University of Melbourne)
Digital gaming in Venezuela: grassroots computing and social inclusion
- Week 12: 5.15pm Wednesday 29th May in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Hirokazu Miyazaki (Cornell University)
Debt, crisis and the "end" of finance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Semester 2, 2013
- Week 1: 5.15pm Wednesday 31st July in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Erin Fitz-Henry (The University of Melbourne - 'Human/Nature' Working Group)
Toward a post-Extractive economy
- Week 2: 5.15pm Wednesday 7th August in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Maree Pardy (The University of Melbourne - 'Identity and Subjectivity' Working Group)
Anthropology and rights sans culture
- Week 3: 5.15pm Wednesday 14th August in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Frederik Keck (L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale)
Sentinels of biosecurity: an anthropology of human/animal relationships and global health
- Week 5: 5.15pm Wednesday 28th August in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Nadeem Malik (The University of Melbourne - 'Development' Working Group)
Civil society in Pakistan - a discourse in Itself
- Week 7: 5.15pm Wednesday 11th September in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Melinda Hinkson (Australian National University)
Back to the future: Warlpiri encounters with drawings, country and others in the digital age
- Week 9: 5.15pm Wednesday 25th September in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Andrew Dawson (The University of Melbourne - 'Mobility and Transnationalism' Working Group)
Moving to stay still: an anthropological approach to 'safe' driving
- Week 11: 5.15pm Wednesday 16th October in The Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley (Building 191)
Heather Horst (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Migrants, mobiles and mobility on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic