2025

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Ethnographic Photo Exhibition: "Disorganised Labour: Ride-hail Drivers and Social Protest in Indonesia"

Robbie Peters (University of Sydney)

Thursday, 18 September 2025

 

​​​​​​​​​​Centenary of Anthropology at USYD: 100 Years of Anthropology at the University of Sydney

Thursday, 9 October 2025

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​​Book Launch: Sophie Chao, “Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger”​

Discussion with Hannah Della Bosca, Shiori Shakuto, and Veronika Koman. Chaired by Sonja Van Wichelen

Friday, 10 October 2025

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On the Art of Rubble: Fragments of concrete, fragments of politics in Thai art 

Eli Elinoff (Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka)

Thursday, 16 October 2025

 

The custom/religion/state nexus: the ‘three hearths’ as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua

Tom Powell-Davies (University of Cambridge)

Thursday, 19 June 2025

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Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge

Andrew Lakoff (University of Southern California)

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

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The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India

Alpah Shah (University of Oxford)

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Insider Indigenous Anthropology: a personal perspective

Jakelin Troy (University of Sydney)
Thursday, 1 May

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PhD Students Present

Thursday, 17 April 

Callie Evans, PhD Student in Anthropology: Hospitality and Dispossession in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia

Kevin Abimanyu Jatmiko, PhD Student in Anthropology: Refusing Aid, Cultivating Sovereignty: The Boti Community’s Path to Food Resilience amid Crisis

Carissa Henriksson, PhD Student in Anthropology: Vulnerability and Violence: Perspectives and Experiences from within the Disability Sector in New South Wales, Australia

 

Reconfiguring Relationships: Ayurveda, preconception, and epigenetics

Natasha Rooney (University of Sydney)

Thursday, 10 April

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​2024

 

Cycling Caste and Cargo in Urban India
Malini Sur (Western Sydney University)
Thursday, 15 August

Translation work, interdisciplinarity and the anatomy of a project
Mardi Reardon-Smith (Deakin University)
Thursday, 29 August

Ethnography in the archive: listening, being, and doing in archival collections  
Henrietta Byrne (University of Sydney)
Thursday, 12 September 

Detective research work amidst unspeakable crimes: Anthropological fieldwork and the Rohingya

Elliott Prasse-Freeman (National University of Singapore)
Thursday, 26 September 

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Eco-Anxiety?: Dharam, Masculinity and Madness at the Himalayan Frontier
Nikita Simpson (SOAS University of London)
Thursday, 17 October

Making museum collections useful to Islanders: restoring women’s knowledge

Leah Lui-Chivizhe (University of New South Wales)
Thursday, 31 October

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​Research, Outputs and Ethics in Collaboration: Reflections from Myanmar

Elizabeth Rhoads (Lund University) and Jenny Hedström (Swedish Defence University)

Thursday, 14 November

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​2023

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The Body as Method

Sophie Chao (University of Sydney)

Thursday, 3 August

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Scraps, scavengings, and being scavenged ​​

Timothy Neale (Alfred Deakin Institute)

Wednesday, 9 August

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Fieldwork reflections on the realities of decolonizing ethnography in Fijian iTaukei (Indigenous) communities

Gregoire Randin (University of Sydney)

Thursday, 14 August

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Coyote's method

Rihan Yen (University of California San Diego)

Wednesday, 13 September

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Electronic story quilts

Elizabeth Chin (ArtCenter College of Design)

Wednesday 20 September

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Methodological Dividualism: Experimental Methods to Studying Life in Bits

Yancey Orr (University of Sydney/Smith College)

Wednesday 4 October

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'Proper’ ethnographic fieldwork in the digital age: ambitions, experiences and lessons from rural Norway
Tom Bratrud (Bergen University)

Wednesday 18 October

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Sinking or swimming in methods?

Matthew Gutmann

Thursday 16 March

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Doing ethnography

Nicholas Peterson (Australian National University)

Monday 27 March

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Ethnography as a method of data collection for qualitative research

Misty Shan-el-Shalam (University of Sydney)

Thursday 6 April​

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So what does a national flag really mean?

Luis Angosto Ferrandez (University of Sydney)

Thursday 4 May

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Multi-object ethnography

Megan Warin (University of Adelaide)

Monday 22 May

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​2022

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​WORKSHOP: Monday 1 August

Presenter: Angela Wong (University of Sydney)

Title: A World between Worlds: Vietnam's Boatpeople in Liminal Spaces of the post-Vietnam War Exodus 

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​WORKSHOP: Monday 5 September

Presenter: Thuy Duong Tran (University of Sydney)

Title: Queer Identity Formation in Socialist Vietnam – Reflection on Research Methods

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​WORKSHOP: Monday 3 October

Presenter: Dominic Sidoti (University of Sydney)

Title: The Permanent Reduction of Anxiety: Devereux and Fieldwork in a Remote Aboriginal Community

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​WORKSHOP: Monday 7 November

Presenter: Meherose Borthwick (University of Sydney)

Title: Navigating Difference

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​WORKSHOP: Monday 5 December

Presenter: Dr Robbie Peters (University of Sydney)

Title: The Ethical Stakes of Pseudonyms