Contemporary Culture and Society Seminar Series
Wednesdays, 5:15 – 7pm (with exception of August 12, start 6.15, and August 24, start 6 pm).
Theatre D, Old Arts Building, The University of Melbourne
Please note: If there are less than 30 people attending the location of the seminar will be in Rm 235 Old Arts.
- 28/10/2009 - Emma Kowal. Is culture good for you? Indigenous health and the politics of remoteness.
- 21/10/2009 - Benedicta Rousseau. Friendship and the 'possibility' of violence in Vanuatu.
- 14/10/2009 - Alison Dundon. Condoms and Christianity: sex and the sickness without medicine (AIDS) in rural Papua New Guinea .
- 07/10/2009 - Maree Pardy. Culturally defective and socially defunct bodies – postcard multiculturalism, class and public space.
- 30/09/2009 - Martin Shaw. The International Relations of Genocide.
- 23/09/2009 - Simone Dennis. Embodied policy responses: everyday life in the migration exclusion zone, Christmas Island, Australia.
- 16/09/2009 - James Oliver. Translating identities in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd.
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09/09/2009 - Eric. L. Santner. The people's two bodies: reflections on the somatic sublime.
- 02/09/2009 - Realene Wilding. Mobile lives: locating 'transnationalism' across two generations.
- 26/08/2009 - Patrick Laviolette. Playing in the danger-zones.
- 24/08/2009 - Book launch. Waiting. Edited by Ghassan Hage. Introduced by Vice-Chancellor Glynn Davis
- 19/08/2009 - Asha Varadharajan. From Babel to Cosmopolis: rethinking political allegiance and global obligation.
- 12/08/2009 - Michael Herzfeld. Why ethnography matters: complexity and local detail in the analysis of political process .
- 05/08/2009 - Peter Phipps. Performances of power: the cultural politics of three indigenous festivals.
- 29/07/2009 - Martha MacIntyre. Gifts and commodities in the Kula: revisiting the debate and re-examining motives.