5 events Coming up
08 Aug 2012
Heritage and corruption: two sides of one coin?
Benedict Anderson famously regarded nationalism as a means of sublimating human mortality in the presumed collective immortality of the nationstate, and that nationstates typically project that immortality through aggressive campaigns of heritage ...
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Seminar/Forum22 Aug 2012
The World in Pieces: Experimenting with Fragments
Human populations characterized variously as “primitive”, geographicallyisolated, and most recently indigenous have long attracted interest from scientists who saw them as portals to an earlier moment in the past. In this system of thought, memb...
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Seminar/Forum20 Sep 2012
The Legacies of Bernard Smith
“The Legacies of Bernard Smith” A Collaborative International Symposium Thursday, 20 & Friday 21,September 2012 I The Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne Friday, 9 & Saturday, 10 November 2012 I Power Institute, Univers...
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Symposium03 Oct 2012
Beyond methodological nationalism: expatriate and marginal retirees
Beyond methodological nationalism: expatriate and marginal retirees ‘in’ Malaysia As Hazan observes, ‘anthropology is a discipline committed to diasporas, contact zones, transcultural borders and routes of transition’. Whilst ‘old age’ is a blatan...
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Seminar/Forum27 May 2013
Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative-Film Screening: Hidden Pictures
Please come join the Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative in our second monthly film screening! This month we will be screening the documentary Hidden Pictures. Hidden Pictures explores the experience of mental illnesses in India, Ch...