Anthropologists @ Monash 2008

Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2008

When: Thursdays at 4.00pm-6:00pm
Where: All seminars are on Thursdays from 4:00–6:00 P.M. in the PSI School Library, 10th Floor Menzies Building, Clayton Campus Monash University, except for the film showing (14 August) in the campus cinema.

For further information or to offer a paper for future seminars contact Matt Tomlinson

Date	Presenter	Topic
24 July	Kevin Riley Monash University	"Stained Glass, Birthday Cards, and Other Heresies: Seventh- Day Adventist Material Culture and Ideologies of Worldliness"
14 August	Michael Herzfeld Harvard University	"Monti Moments": Film screening and discussion
21 August	Jadran Mimica University of Sydney	"Modes of Un/knowing and the Practice of Ethnography: Some Reflections on Anthropological Knowledge"
4 September	Hans Baer University of Melbourne	"Toward a Critical Anthropology of Global Warming: Beyond Capitalism and the Need for an Alternative World System"
18 September	Debra McDougall University of Western Australia	"Becoming Sinless: Converting to Islam in the Christian Solomon Islands"
9 October	Special Double Session: Anna-Karina Hermkens and Jaap Timmer Radboud University Nijmegen, Leiden University, & Monash University	"Moved by Mary: Mobilizing Divine Intervention during the Bougainville Conflict [Hermkens] Becoming Jews: Straightening Customs at the Ends of the Earth, Solomon Islands [Timmer]"