Reading Radiation: Evidence and Future-Making in Post-Disaster Fukushima
Lecture/seminar
How does radiation function as evidence? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Fukushima, Japan site of the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, this talk examines how radiation is activated, contested, and suppressed in discourse across a range of sites—museum…
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
Lecture/seminar
This past summer, wildfires again washed across southeast Australian landscapes, affecting over 500,000 hectares. Many of the forests that have carried these combustive tides are regrowth of native forests industrially cleared for mining and then recleared for timber. Many of the grasslands that…
Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will take a different format. The idea behind a super review is to provide HDR students and ECRs with some insights into how a review conversation can be productive and exciting, and leads to stronger work, with the added bonus of making the audience aware of the manuscript, hopefully…
Haunting Futures. Time, Affect and Crisis in Iceland
Lecture/seminar
The seminar engages with ethnographic exploration of how the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising state with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Iceland, I will show how the complex relationships of the past and…
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…
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…