Anthropologists @ Monash 2008

Semester 1, 2008

Date	Presenter	Topic
6th March	Dr Sara Niner School PSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology Monash University	"Strong cloth? Women's craft and development in Timor-Leste"
20th March	Sanjay Srivastava Professor, School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University	"Post-nationalism: Urban spaces, consumerism and middle-class activism in Delhi"
10 April	Jessica Walton PhD candidate, Anthropolog University of Newcastle	"Negotiating Korean adoptee representations: Making sense of identity and adoption in South Korea"
24 April	Michelle Hannah PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, and Lecturer in Anthropology Monash University	"Buddhism, globalisation and cultural diversity"
8 May	Lynne Milgram Faculty of Liberal Studies Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada	"Materializing the Philippines: Piña textiles, nationalism and border zones of cultural production"
22 May	Edwina Howell PhD candidate and Tutor in Anthropology Monash University	"How do you put the Rainbow Serpent on the table? Researching how knowledge of place is contested at the site of the McArthur River Minea"

Date	Presenter	Topic
24 July	Kevin Riley Monash University	"Stained Glass, Birthday Cards, and Other Heresies: Seventh- Day Adventist Material Culture and Ideologies of Worldliness"
14 August	Michael Herzfeld Harvard University	"Monti Moments": Film screening and discussion
21 August	Jadran Mimica University of Sydney	"Modes of Un/knowing and the Practice of Ethnography: Some Reflections on Anthropological Knowledge"
4 September	Hans Baer University of Melbourne	"Toward a Critical Anthropology of Global Warming: Beyond Capitalism and the Need for an Alternative World System"
18 September	Debra McDougall University of Western Australia	"Becoming Sinless: Converting to Islam in the Christian Solomon Islands"
9 October	Special Double Session: Anna-Karina Hermkens and Jaap Timmer Radboud University Nijmegen, Leiden University, & Monash University	"Moved by Mary: Mobilizing Divine Intervention during the Bougainville Conflict [Hermkens] Becoming Jews: Straightening Customs at the Ends of the Earth, Solomon Islands [Timmer]"