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Anthropologists @ Monash 2011

Seminars

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The anthropology seminar series is a showcase for exciting research and a centrepiece of the Honours and Higher Degree Research experience at Monash. Seminar presentations are given by postgraduate students and professional staff alike, including scholars from universities in Europe and the USA as well as Australia.

Seminar Series 2011

For further information contact Penny Graham

Semester 2

Date Presenter Topic
5th August Tuti Gunawan and David Mitchell
Monash University
Kalango crazy day: an ancient ritual for modern times. 
19th August James Barry
Monash Asia Institute  
Framing Armenian identity in Iran.
2nd September Anuja Cabraal
Global Cities Institute, RMIT
Second generation Indians in Australia: autoethnography and conversations of identity.
16th September Sara Niner
Political and Social Inquiry, Monash
The effect of changes in the customary practices of barlake on gender relations in Timor-Leste.
7th October Max Richter
Anthropology, Monash University
Forest, rural and urban musical markers in South and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
21st October

Julian Millie
Anthropology, Monash University

Oratory and the modern / traditional dialectic in Indonesia.



Semester 1

Date Presenter Topic
March 11 Matt Tomlinson
Monash University
“Performative Paths” at a Pentecostal Crusade in Fiji
March 25 John Taylor,
Latrobe University
Pikinini in Paradise: Photographing the Fantasy “Child Native” in Vanuatu
April 8 Monash Honours and HDR Candidates
Monash University
Anthropology: Research Roundtable
May 6 Tim Denham,
Monash University
Early agriculture and plant domestication in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
May 13 Susana Barnes,
Monash University

Assertions of Ritual Authority and Territorial Control in Post-Independence Timor-Leste

May 27 Tamara Kohn,
University of Melbourne
An Ethnographically Illustrated Rant against ‘Ethics Committees’ That Don’t Understand Methodological Flexibility and Nuance