This popular cross-campus seminar series in anthropology is back!
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: Mondays 1-2 pm | 3 August–26 August 2026 inclusive (excluding public holidays and semester teaching break)
Location(s): Seminar Room E, H.C Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton
Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82431454032?pwd=owA39nWqTYm2TGOcC0sWa9bEDVangD.1
2026 Semester 2 Seminars
Semester 2 2026
3 August 2026 (1pm to 2pm)
Marie Kolling
Credit as care and financial frontier. An ethnography of predatory inclusion under Brazil’s ‘fintech revolution’
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
Details coming soon
10 August 2026
Siobhan McDonnell
“Fighting not sinking”: How emotions impact Pacific diplomacy, geopolitics and climate security | School of Archaeology and Anthropology
In person – H.C Coombs Building, Room 1.309 (northern hexagon)
Online via Zoom
17 August 2026
Stefanie Puszka
Care Circuits: Yolŋu, kidney disease and the work of policy translation
Online via Zoom
24 August 2026
Judit Kroo
Reading Radiation: Evidence and Future-Making in Post-Disaster Fukushima
Online via Zoom
31 August 2026
Timothy Neale
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
In person – Seminar Room E, H.C Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton
Online via Zoom
7 and 14 September 2026 - Semester teaching break. No seminar scheduled.
21 September 2026 1-2:30pm – please note the extended format
Amanda Kearney, Lucas Bessire, and Sophie Chao in conversation with Yasmine Musharbash
Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony
In person – Seminar Room E, H.C Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton
Online via Zoom
28 September 2026
Marek Pawlak
Haunting Futures. Time, Affect and Crisis in Iceland
In person – Seminar Room E, H.C Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton
Online via Zoom
This seminar is supported by Norden@ANU, an Australia-Nordic research initiative in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology.
5 October 2026 - Labour Day public holiday. No seminar scheduled
12 October 2026
Zeynel Gül
Paper Injuries: Diagnostic Time, Occupational Diseases and the Event-Form in Turkey
Online only via Zoom
19 October 2026
Chitra V and Adam Sargent
Possum Lab
In person – Seminar Room E, H.C Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton
Online via Zoom
26 October 2026
Meherose Borthwick
Making Slow: Textile Craft Timelines in India’s Fashion Industry
In person – Seminar Room E, H.C Coombs Building, 9 Fellows Road, Acton
Online via Zoom
This seminar is supported by the ANU South Asian Research Institute (SARI).
2026 Semester 1 Seminars
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