60 years of ANU Anthropology - Conference - RSAP

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60 Years
        of Anthropology at ANU
        Contesting Anthropology's futures

         26-28 September 2011

ANU Anthropologists invite colleagues to attend an international conference celebrating 60 years of Anthropology at ANU (SF Nadel, as Foundation Chair in Anthropology, set out a research agenda for the Department in 1951.) This conference has been organised by the Department of Anthropology, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific and the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Podcasts of Anthropology@60 Public Lectures

Conference convenor: Kathryn Robinson

Associated events will include an alumni reunion, film screenings, a display in the Menzies library (organized in association with ANU archives) and a series of Master-classes.

Committee: Simone Dennis, Pip Deveson, Sarah Holcombe, Ian Keen, Francesca Merlan Nicolas Peterson, Philip Taylor

Final Program co-ordination: Alan Rumsey; Program production: Ian Keen

Menzies Library Exhibition: Margaret Avard and Kathryn Robinson; Roger Casas, Simone Dennis, Francesca Merlan, Nicolas Peterson

Administrative support: School of Culture, History & Language, College of Asia & the Pacific. Helen Parsons, Geoff Kelly, Sharon Donohue, Shannon McIntyre, Joanna Salmond.

ANU Anthropology has a distinguished body of alumni who hold academic leadership positions in Australia and globally; many alumni have influential public roles, especially In the Asia Pacific region, and many anthropologists have spent time visiting here. The symbolism of 60 years of anthropological research at ANU provides a focus for reflecting on the development of the discipline at this time of change in Australian universities, and in the discipline. This reflection encompasses the legacies of the past as a platform for a critical debate about the future directions for the discipline, in our local context as well as in regard to the discipline in general.

The conference will provide an opportunity for:

consolidating work of recent years around the critical themes that have emerged;
debating the future directions of the discipline;
engaging as interlocutors our academic colleagues from related disciplines as a way of focusing on future directions.

Participating ANU departments

Sponsored by the Research School of Asia & the Pacific, CAP; The Research School of the Humanities, CASS; the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, and The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology