Making Anthropologists Visible
In 2003, when I first went to the eastern highlands of New Guinea to talk with the Fore people about investigations in the 1950s and 1960s of the fatal brain disease they called… Continue reading
Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South
Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800-2000 An international workshop at the University of Sydney, 18-19 April 2017, sponsored by Race and Ethnicity on the Global South, an ARC Laureate Research… Continue reading
Southern Oceanic Topologies and Genealogies
Southern Oceanic Topologies and Genealogies: Genetic Explorations of the Pacific and Australasia An international workshop at the University of Sydney, 12-14 December 2016 Conveners: Warwick Anderson (Sydney), Emma Kowal (Deakin), Joanna Radin (Yale)… Continue reading
Simply a Hypothesis?
Warwick Anderson was asked to write a reflection on his laureate fellowship for Humanities Australia, the journal of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Here’s how he begins: I can’t say that it’s typical of the discipline,… Continue reading
Lost archive: Photographs from the Upper Sepik
In 1913-14, Richard Thurnwald was exploring in the upper Sepik area and reached Telefomin 19 September 1914. He then explored to the headwaters of the Sand and North Rivers and returned to his… Continue reading
War Trophies and Curios in the Papers
Christine’s new book (with Barry Craig, from the South Australia Museum, and Ron Vanderwal, from Museum Victoria), has attracted very positive reviews in the media. Tony Wright, ‘Melbourne Museum’s lost collection of… Continue reading
Christine Winter and Barry Craig in The Drawing Room
Recently Christine Winter and her co-author of War Trophies or Curios, Barry Craig, spoke with Patricia Karvelas in The Drawing Room, on Radio National. They discussed the violence that has recently been introduced into… Continue reading
Racial Conceptions in the Lusophone World
On 5-7 April, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South, in conjunction with FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro) and the Wellcome Trust, will host an international workshop in Rio de Janeiro: RACIAL CONCEPTIONS IN THE… Continue reading
HPS Winter School: Biological Individuality
Warwick Anderson, together with Professors Lynn Nyhart (Madison-Wisconsin), Alan Love (Minnesota) and Paul Griffiths (Sydney) will lead a winter school course in the History and Philosophy of Science Winter School, ‘Philosophical and Historical… Continue reading
Christine Winter: Matthew Flinders Fellowship
Christine Winter has received one of the first three Matthew Flinders Fellowships, created to mark the 50th anniversary of Flinders University. The 3-5 year research-intensive fellowships, twelve in total, represent an effort to strengthen… Continue reading