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Aas2019 Australian National University Canberra 2 - 5 December 2019 VALUES IN ANTHROPOLOGY, VALUES OF ANTHROPOLOGY AaS2019 AUSTRALIAN national UNIVERSITY CANBERRA 2 - 5 DECEMBER 2019 AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY AAS2019 timetable Events / meetings Plenaries Panel sessions Fun and food after hours Monday 2/12 10:00 - 15:00 Native Title workshop (Hancock Library, room 2.24) 10:00 - 15:00 Australian Network of Student Anthropologists postgraduate workshop (Jan Anderson (E101A), R.N Robertson) 13:00 - 18:00 Registration desk open (RN Robertson Building) 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee/tea 15:30 - 17:15 Panel and Lab session I 17:45 - 18:45 Welcome to Country & Ngunawal-guided tour of ANU campus 18:45 - 19:45 Welcome drinks reception (RN Robertson Building, main lobby) 19:45 Special Session: Honouring the life and work of Samuel Taylor-Alexander (Jan Anderson (E101A), R.N Robertson Building) Tuesday 3/12 08:15 - 16:00 Registration desk open (RN Robertson Building) 09:00 - 10:45 Panel and Lab session II 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee and tea 11:15 - 12:45 Keynote by Robert Borofsky, Ensuring Anthropology Matters – To Others (Coombs Lecture Theatre) 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch 13:00 - 14:00 Linking with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) (Gumnut (S204), R.N Robertson Building) 13:00 - 14:00 Curatorium: Jennifer Deger and Lisa Stefanoff (STB 2, Science Teaching Building) 14:00 - 15:45 Panel and Lab session III 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee/tea 15:45 - 16:15 Book launch: Georgia Curran, ‘Sustaining Indigenous Songs: Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia’ (2nd floor terrace opposite Gumnut in Robertson Building) 16:15 - 18:00 Panel and Lab session IV 16:30 - 18:00 Film screening: ‘Chauka, please tell us the time’ by Behrouz Boochan (RN Robertson Theatre) 19:00 - 21:00 Film Evening: ‘In My Blood it Runs’ (RN Robertson Theatre) Wednesday 4/12 08:15 - 16:00 Reception desk open (RN Robertson Building) 09:00 - 10:45 Panel and Lab session V 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee/tea 11:15 - 12:45 Keynote by Amita Baviskar, Attitude! Doing Anthropology in a Utilitarian World (Coombs Lecture Theatre) 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch 12:45 - 14:00 AAS Initiative: Building A Public Anthropology of Australian Issues (Jan Anderson (E101A), R.N Robertson) 14:00 - 15:45 Panel and Lab session VI 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee/tea 16:00 - 16:30 Book launch: Yasmine Musharbash & Geir Henning Presterudstuen (eds.) ‘Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters’ (2nd floor terrace opposite Gumnut in Robertson Building) 16:30 - 17:00 Presentation of the Inaugural AAS Behrouz Boochani Award (Coombs Lecture Theatre) 17:15 - 19:00 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society (Coombs Lecture Theatre) 19:00 - 23:00 Dinner and Party (Ursula Hall, 50 Daley Rd, Acton ACT 2601) Thursday 5/12 08:30 - 14:00 Reception desk open (RN Robertson Building) 09:00 - 10:45 Film screening: ‘Chauka, please tell us the time’ by Behrouz Boochani (RN Robertson Theatre) 09:00 - 10:45 Panel and Lab session VII 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee/tea 11:15 - 13:00 Panel and Lab session VIII 13:00 - 14:15 Lunch 13:00 - 13:45 Wiley Digital Archives presentation - the digitisation of the Royal Anthropological Institute archive (Jan Anderson (E101A), R.N Robertson) 14:15 - 16:00 Panel and Lab session IX 19:30 – late Quiz Night ANU Union Pub (in the UniLodge building) AaS2019 VALUES IN anthropology, values of anthropology 2019 Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society Hosted by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University 2-5 DECEMBER 2019 IN CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA Acknowledgements Thanks to all the volunteers Extra thanks to Terri Richardson, the Executive Assistant to the Director, RSB (Research School of Biology) who has been helpful to us in facilitating our use of the Robertson Building and in the lead-up to the conference. Thanks also to Mahnaz Alamardanian for assistance in bringing about the link with Behrouz Boochani. Conference Organisers Convenors Assa Doron, Patrick Guinness, Francesca Merlan AAS2019 Local Committee Kylie Dolan, Mike Dunford, Assa Doron, Patrick Guinness, Nur Khan, Francesca Merlan, Sverre Molland, Yasmine Musharbash, Nicolas Peterson, Alan Rumsey, Fouziehya Towghi, Diana Tung, Chenyu Zong, AAS Executive Jennifer Deger (President), Richard Vokes (President Emeritus), Lisa L. Wynn (President Elect), Caroline Schuster (Secretary), Patrick Guinness (Treasurer), Marcus Barber (Ordinary Director), and Ute Eickelkamp (Ordinary Director). NomadIT – the conference administrators Saskia Lillepuu, Kristjan Lorentson and Triinu Mets with Eli Bugler, Kirsten El, Hugh Swann, Rohan Jackson Cover photo by Jaana Ratas, Scales from Lõhavere Hoard, Estonia, 13th century Source for landscape view of Canberra: online, The Sunday Times (Australia) 23/07/2017 Wireless internet Visitors whose home institutions are part of the Eduroam network may use their home institution credentials to access the Eduroam wireless network at the ANU. For those guests without Eduroam credentials, they can log on to ANU wireless network using complimentary guest user login: User: AASconf Password: values1219 4 Contents Acknowledgements 2 Conference Organisers 2 Contents 3 Welcome address from the Values in anthropology, values of anthropology conveners 4 Welcome address from the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) President 5 Theme: Values in anthropology, values of anthropology 6 Practical information 7 Using this program 7 Timing of panels 7 Timing of individual papers 7 AAS2019 conference venues 7 Catering 7 Recycling 7 Reception desk locations and hours 8 Conference team 8 AAS2019 conference office (NomadIT) 8 Emergency contact details 8 Printing 8 Getting around in Canberra 8 Book exhibit 9 Events and meetings 10 Monday 2nd December 10 Tuesday 3rd December 11 Wednesday 4th December 12 Thursday 5th December 13 Daily timetable 16 Monday 2nd December 16 Tuesday 3rd December 17 Wednesday 4th December 20 Thursday 5th December 22 Lab, panel and paper abstracts 25 List of participants 99 AAS Conference schedule 102 Monday, December 2 102 Tuesday, December 3 103 Wednesday, December 4 104 Thursday, December 5 105 4 5 Welcome address from the Values in anthropology, values of anthropology conveners We bid you a warm welcome to the annual meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society in Canberra, December 2-5, 2019. We begin our proceedings with a Welcome to Country led by Ngunnawal elder Mr. Wally Bell. This focuses our minds on some of the current issues here on campus at the Australian National University, elsewhere in Canberra, and indeed across Australian universities and cities. Paramount in this context is the recognition of this location where we meet as an indigenous place; and the changes needed to enable indigenous students to take a greater role in academic life and in the various professions and kinds of work to which university preparation is, and can be, relevant. The banner phrases of our conference are ‘Values in anthropology’, ‘values of anthropology’. Our aim is to discuss productively the values which anthropologists see as guiding their research work: methods and theoretical orientations. The values – some more explicit than others – might inform the kinds of topics they choose to research, with whom, how and why. They also remind us of the values anthropology has espoused over the years, and their relevance in the 21st century for academic and public audiences, through basic and applied research, politically-engaged writing and a multiplicity of other activities, including film- making, visual and graphic arts, and repatriations of collected materials. To foreground those themes, we have two plenary speakers whose work addresses them in different ways: Dr. Robert Borofsky is Professor of Anthropology, Center for a Public Anthropology, Hawaii Pacific University. He will speak to problems and issues that he sees anthropology as a discipline facing, including: reaching audiences and convincing them of anthropology’s relevance; responding to ever-escalating performance measurement, and louder calls for public benefits. His plenary topic is: Ensuring Anthropology Matters – To Others. Professor Amita Baviskar, Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, has concentrated in her research on Social Inequality and Ecological Politics; Food and Agrarian Environments. What better place than Delhi from which to address the paradoxes embedded in these topics – from a location which she describes as an increasingly neoliberalist academy and Hindu-supremacist nation state. She asks: What do others expect of anthropologists and what do we expect of ourselves? Her plenary is entitled: Attitude! Doing Anthropology in a Utilitarian World. The Australian Anthropological Society will inaugurate an award (on Wednesday evening December 4) in the name of Behrouz Boochani, author of the book `No Friend But the Mountains’ (Pan Macmillan Picador, 2018, translated by Omid Tofighian). This book was written by Boochani, a Kurdish asylum seeker, while he was in detention on Manus Island from 2013 to 2017, and smuggled out of Manus Island in the form of thousands of text messages. The Boochani award has been established to recognise exceptional work that contributes to public and critical understandings of Australian society in the spirit of the discipline of anthropology. The AAS is proud to honour Behrouz Boochani by way of initiating this award, and a Zoom link should allow us to speak with him in his present location, Port Moresby, PNG. Professor Emerita Gillian Cowlishaw will speak to the presentation
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