Anthropologists @ Monash 2011
| Current Seminar Series | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |
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
- When: Fridays at 2.00pm-4:00pm
- Where: W10.10 PSI School Library, 10th Floor Menzies Building, Clayton Campus Monash University
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 |
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 |