Wellspring Series 2026: Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia
Activity
Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia revives a centuries-old tradition of singing ballads as a form of news transmission. Associate Professor Una McIlvenna and PhD Candidate Madeline Sargeant will trace the journey of news ballads from European streets and marketplaces, via convict and…
Perceptual Novum: Sensory Storytelling in South Korean Science Fiction
Lecture/seminar
A distinctive feature of twenty-first century feminist South Korean science fiction is that the novum, the strange newness that sets the text’s story world apart from the reader’s empirical reality, often relates to sensory perception. Literary theorist Darko Suvin famously defines science fiction…
We are in this together: One Health Approaches to lemur conservation.
Seminar
Lemurs are the most endangered animals in the world, with 98% threatened with extinction. However, they also live in direct connection to people and their domestic animals. This situation creates a complex system of interactions that needs to be considered for effective conservation outcomes that…
Paper Injuries: Diagnostic Time, Occupational Diseases and the Event-Form in Turkey
Lecture/seminar
Drawing on an ethnographic study of occupational health litigation in Turkey, this talk examines how bureaucratic standards of evidence shape litigant workers’ moral and social existence. In Turkey, among roughly 12,000 workers who visit occupational hospitals annually for care and…
Coming into Relation: Indigenous Time and Place in the Archaeology of California
Lecture
This lecture builds on Dr. Schneider’s work as an affiliated scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science. It highlights relationality within his archaeological, historical, and collections-based research on Indigenous hinterlands as…
Possum Lab
Lecture/seminar
PossumLab is a space to explore creative ethnographic work. In this seminar, we read a comic and use it as a way to explore anthropological concepts. Stay tuned for more details about the specific comic and themes that we will explore in this session. A PDF of the comic will be linked to this page,…
Making Slow: Textile Craft Timelines in India’s Fashion Industry
Lecture/seminar
The handmade aesthetic of block print textiles is an enduring element in India’s marketplaces even as the craft’s production timelines conflict with fashion industry demands. Making the textiles is characterised as ‘slow’ by both heritage printers in the town of Bagru, Rajasthan and industry buyers…