This popular cross-campus seminar series in anthropology is back!
2026 Semester 1 Seminars
Welcome back to the Anthropology Seminar Series | School of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Unless specifically stated for a particular talk, all seminars are presented in person and online via Zoom.
Time: 23 February – 25 May inclusive (excluding public holidays and semester teaching break)
Location(s): H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C. Check individual events for more details
Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82431454032?pwd=owA39nWqTYm2TGOcC0sWa9bEDVangD.1
Semester 1 2026
23 February 2026
Simon Coleman
Stretching Cities: On the Neo-Pentecostalization of Urban Space
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
2 March 2026
V. Chitra, Kylie Dolan
Possum Lab: Thinking through Human-Animal Relationships with "Man's Best"
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
16 March 2026
Francesca Merlan
Inside Australian Land Claims: Issues of Continuity and Domain Separation in Intercultural Perspective
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
23 March 2026
Hayeon Lee
Korean Dreams, Revisited: Vietnamese Women’s Stories of Repeat Marriage Migration
In person – Seminar Room C, HC Coombs Building
Online via Zoom
30 March 2026
Malini Sur
Parramatta Redux Document Film – Screening and Discussion
Online via Zoom
20 April 2026
Arratee Ayuttacorrn
Affective Resilience of Aging: Social Networks and Care Work Among Older Adults in Chiangmai, Thailand
In person – Seminar Room C, HC Coombs Building
Online via Zoom
4 May 2026
Tim McLellan
PossumLab: Tim McLellan reads King of Bangkok by Sopranzetti et al
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
11 May 2026
Nicolas Peterson
The paradox of welfare autonomy: poverty, employment, and consumer dependency in remote Australia
In person – Seminar Room C, HC Coombs Building
Online via Zoom
18 May 2026
Tuomas Tammisto
Roads, plantations and consultants: Road-building and multiple territorializations in Pomio, Papua New Guinea
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
25 May 2026
Adam Sargent
Eating Abuse: Caste, Class and the Figure of Labour
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room C, Ground floor
Online via Zoom
28 May 2026
Professor Richard Wolf (Havard University)
The Real and the Created in Ethnographic Film: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
(In collaboration with the ANU Southeast Asia Research Institute, or SARI)
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Seminar Room D
Online via Zoom