Events and Public Lectures
2011
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February |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Thursday, 17th February | 1:00-2:00pm | North Theatre (Room 239 upstairs), Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar |
David Mickler Melissa Phillips |
'In Pieces and in Peace? Local and International Challenges in Post-Referendum Sudan' |
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March |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Tuesday, 8th March | 1:00-2:00pm | Room 519, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar | Professor Paul Morris | 'Multiculturalism? Life across the ditch' |
| Wednesday, 9th March | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | John Morton (La Trobe University) |
Race, Reciprocity, Reconciliation: Stolen Children and the Elementary Structures of Justice in Australia |
| Thursday, 10th March | 1:00-2:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar | Emeritus Professor John Power | 'Securing Fiducial Governance' |
| Friday, 11th March | 3:30–5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room 209, Old Arts building, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum Program - 'Insider Ethnography - working in your own field' |
Sally Warmington Mayuko Maekawa |
"Identifying yourself: stories from a physician-ethnographer in a teaching hospital."
"Authenticity for western Kendo practitioners in Melbourne." |
| Wednesday, 16th March | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Dr Lan Anh Hoang | 'Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family' |
| Thursday, 17th March | 7:00-8:00pm | North Lecture Theatre, Room 239, Level 2, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar | Professor Paul Morris | 'Reflections on the Holocaust' |
| Wednesday, 23rd March | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Doug Miles (CIU, Ascona; Cairns Institute, JCU; Visitor, A& A, ANU) |
"Mountainwards (kaja) versus Seawards (kelod) in Defiance of Suharto during the Thirst of Ramadan: 1978"? : Hindu-Balinese Orientation Trumps a Sukarnoist Theatre of Protest |
| Thursday, 24th March | 1-2pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar | W/Prof. Alex Coram (University of Western Australia) |
'The political-economy of conflicts over wealth: why don't the rabble expropriate the rich?' |
| Wednesday, 30th March | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | John Cash (University of Melbourne) | Psychoanalytic Social and Political Theory and International Politics |
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April |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Wednesday, 6th April | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Gillian G. Tan (University of Melbourne) | Milk and Shit: On the relationship between the physical and metaphysical for Tibetan nomad women |
| Friday, 8th April | 3:30–5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room 209, Old Arts building, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum Program - "Applied Anthropology – pluses and pitfalls" |
Tracey Pahor Tass Holmes |
"Beyond the 'sectors' of healthcare (i.e. public/private): An examination of low-income use of non-biomedical methods of healing, by Warburton area residents." |
| Wednesday, 13th April | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series |
Nicholas Herriman Monika Winarnita (ANU) |
Intradiasporic Connections: Marriage migration among Cocos Island 'Malays' |
| Thursday, 14th April | 1-2pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar | Assoc. Prof. Andrew Biro (Acadia University) |
'The Good Life in the Greenhouse? Democratic Citizenship as Climate Change Strategy' |
| Tuesday, 19th April | 1-2pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Internships Briefing Seminar | Dr. Tom Davis | Internships Briefing Seminar Details |
| Wednesday, 20th April | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Marina Gold (Deakin University) |
"Urban Gardens: Private Property or the Ultimate Socialist Experience?" |
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May |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Wednesday, 4th May | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Erin Fitz-Henry (University of Melbourne) |
Corporations Are Not People, and Ecosystems Are Not Property |
| Wednesday, 11th May | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Kalissa Alexyeff (University of Melbourne) |
"Stuck in Paradise? Money, Shame and Cook Islands Migration" |
| Friday, 13th May | 3:30–5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room 209, Old Arts building, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum Program - "Collaborative Ethnography - working within the academy" |
Edwina Howell Katya Pechenkina |
"Indigenous Australian students in higher education: ethnography of Indigenous educational subculture at the University of Melbourne." |
| Friday, 13th May |
5:15pm - 6:30pm Followed by a reception from 6.30pm in the Graduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences |
Public Lecture Theatre Faculty of Arts |
Panel Discussion |
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne Mr Daniel Flitton, Diplomatic Editor, The Age Dr Sally Totman, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University |
International Responses To Democratisation In The Arab World Panel Discussion |
| Wednesday, 18th May | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University) |
Can Anthropology be both Interactive and Scientific? A Globographical View |
| Tuesday, 24th May | 6.30-7.30pm | Theatre B, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne | Public Lecture | Professor Joy Hendry | "Creativity, Continuity and Identity: What does it mean to put things on Display?" |
| Wednesday, 25th May | 3.15-4.45pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Dr. Juliet Rogers (University of Melbourne) |
The demand for forgiveness and an impossible remorse - scenes from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
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June |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Thursday, 2nd June | 4-6pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar | Robert J. Foster (University of Rochester) | Installation Design and the Exhibition of Oceanic Things: Two New York Museums in the 1940s |
| Friday, 10th June | 3:30–5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room 209, Old Arts building, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum Program - "Emotions in the Field" |
Nadiya Chushak Micaela Sahhar |
"Doing fieldwork on Yugonostalgia." "The Power of Public Opinion: How war crime accusations have framed Israel and reframed Palestinian-Israeli conflict." |
| July | Time | Venue | Event | Presenters | Title |
| Wednesday, 27th July | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne) | 'Critical Anthropological Thought and the Radical Political Imaginary Today' |
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Thursday, 28th July |
3:00–5:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public Seminar |
Bridget Hutter (London School of Economics) Fiona Haines (University of Melbourne) Introduction by Jens Zinn (University of Melbourne) |
'Regulating Risk in an Uncertain World' |
| Thursday, 28th July | 5:00–6:30pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Book Launch | Fiona Haines (University of Melbourne) | 'The Paradox of Regulation: What Regulation Can Achieve and What it Cannot' |
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August |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Wednesday 3rd August | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Oscar Zentne | 'What kind of relationship does psychoanalysis keep with science – including the social sciences?' |
| Wednesday 10th August | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Violeta Schubert (University of Melbourne) | 'Domesticating Development' |
| Friday 12th August | 3:30-5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room, 210 Old Arts, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum | Pamela Bruder and Kelum Palipane | 'Ethnography and the Senses' |
| Wednesday 17th August | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Gerhard Hoffstaedter (La Trobe University) | 'Being in a non-place: Refugees, displacement and landscapes of difference in Malaysia' |
| Thursday 18th August | 1:00-2:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public seminar | Dr Ann Brower (Lincoln University, New Zealand) | 'When the law is silent: Law and power in implied property rights' |
| Wednesday 24th August | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Banu Senay (University of Melbourne) | '"I'm not wearing any underpants!" A Phenomenology of Laicism in Turkey' |
| Wednesday 31st August | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Benedicta Rousseau (University of Melbourne) | 'Finding the diamond: prosperity, secrecy and labour in the Vanuatu plantation economy' |
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September |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Wednesday 7th September | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | John Rundell (University of Melbourne) | 'From Communicative Modernity to Modernities in Tension' |
| Friday 9th September | 3:30-5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room, 210 Old Arts, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum | Virginie Rey and Sarah Stares | 'Problems with the Field' |
| Wednesday 14th September | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Nicholas Smith (La Trobe University) | Walypala muurrkarra[whitefella motorcars]and yirraru[a Ngarla song form] |
| Wednesday 21st September | 4:00-5:30pm | Room 519, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Research Higher Degree Workshop | Les Holmes, Fiona Haines and Tamara Kohn | 'Getting published: tips and wrinkles and workshop discussion' |
| Thursday 22nd September | 1:00-2:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public seminar | Prof Ian Buchanan (Cardiff University) | 'To dwell as a poet or an assassin?' |
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October |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Wednesday 5th October | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Tim Pilbrow (University of Melbourne and Native Title Services Victoria) | 'Metanarratives of subjectivity in the discursive space of native title' (65kb pdf) |
| Wednesday 12th October | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Tanya Jakimow (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences) | 'Bridegroom Price among the poor in Rural Telangana, India' (90kb pdf) |
| Thursday 13th October | 1:00-2:00pm | Room 519, Level 5 John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public seminar | Dr Colm McNaughton (Monash University) | 'Experimenting with the radio documentary form as a medium for analytical storytelling as well as transformation...' |
| Friday 14th October | 3:30-5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room, 210 Old Arts, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum | Sondra Dickenson and Kim Dunphy | 'Truth and Trust in the Field' |
| Wednesday 19th October | 4:15pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series | Buck Rosenberg (University of Melbourne) | 'Avoiding Home: Seniors and Seniors Centres' (40kb pdf) |
| Thursday 20th October | 6pm for 6:30pm | Copland Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne | Centre for Public Policy Hamer Oration on Good Government | Professor Larissa Behrendt (University of Technology, Sydney) |
'Under the Radar: Indigenous Governance' (400kb pdf) |
| Wednesday 26th October | 6.30-8.30 | Carillo Grantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre | Controversial Conversation |
Tony Birch (University of Melbourne) Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne) Ray Jackson (Indigenous Social Justice Association) Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University) Facilitators: Tamara Kohn and Juliet Rogers (University of Melbourne) |
'An Indigenous Welcome for Asylum Seekers?' (490kb pdf) |
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November |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Friday 11th November | 3:30-5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room, 210 Old Arts, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum | Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Ruth Oliphant | 'Reflections Fresh from the Field' |
| Tuesday 15th November | 6:30pm | Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne | John Barry Memorial Lecture | Prof Larissa Behrendt (University of Technology Sydney) |
'More Upbeat than Usual: Considering Crime Rates in Indigenous Communities' |
| Tuesday 17th November | 6:30pm | Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne | Public Lecture | Prof Adrian Little (University of Melbourne) |
'Enduring Conflict: Challenging the Signature of Peace and Democracy' |
| Thursday 24th November | 1:00-2:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public seminar | Prof Andrew Dawson (University of Melbourne) | 'Belonging in movement: driving road songs and identity in postwar Bosnia' |
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December |
Time |
Venue |
Event |
Presenters |
Title |
| Thursday 8th December | 1:00-2:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public seminar | Dr Maree Pardy (University of Melbourne) | 'Concrete emotions' |
| Friday 9th December | 3:30-5:00pm | Graduate Seminar Room, 210 Old Arts, University of Melbourne | Ethnography Forum | Sarah Hewat and Kim Neylon | 'Food and Sharing in Ethnography' |
| Thursday 15th December | 1:00-2:00pm | Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne | Public seminar | Prof James Williams (University of Dundee) | 'Why we should try not to communicate' |