Postgraduate Showcase
Conveners: Klara Hansen, Australian National University, ANSA; Jovan Maud, Macquarie University, ANSA; Jennifer Gabriel, James Cook University, ANSA
Panel description: At the 2005 AAS Conference in Adelaide, Kirrilly Thompson organised a Postgraduate Showcase session. Its success, and that of the Postgraduate Symposium at JCU in 2006, has inspired us to run this session at the 2007 conference. It is also intended to complement, but not repeat, the activities of the Postgraduate Colloquium to be held the day before the main conference. This session provides opportunity for postgraduate students to showcase their research projects. The intention of the session is to encourage postgraduate scholars to view themselves as part of the Australian academic and anthropological community and to inspire them to consider the potential of their research beyond the purposes of the dissertation. This session will showcase the diversity of postgraduate research directions and new talent across Australia.
Abstracts
Aisling Bailey, Anthropology, Monash University - The Role of Community in Environmentalism
Malita Allan, Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University - Carleton’s Kids: ‘Power and wealth’ in Contemporary PNG
Michelle D. MacCarthy, Anthropology, University of Auckland - Contextualizing Authenticity: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea.
Tiffany McComsey, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester - Models of Being Models of Doing and the dialogues between them: The Stolen Generations and the Re-development of Redfern and Waterloo
Yuriko Yamanouchi, Anthropology, University of Sydney - What Does it Mean to be ‘Aboriginal’ in Southwestern Sydney?: Urban Aboriginal Experience of Community and Identity Negotiation
Theresa Petray, Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, James Cook University - Towards Autonomy: Aboriginal Activism and Social Movements
Peter Stewart, Anthropology, James Cook University - Contemporary Western Desert Society: Sorrow, the State and the Dreaming in the Lands of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara People
Hedda Haugan Askland, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies and School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle - East Timorese in Melbourne: Community and Identity in a Time of Political Unrest in Timor Leste
Charlotte Setijadi, Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University - Young and Restless: Chinese Indonesian Youth Amidst Post-Suharto Identity Politics
Keri Chiveralls, Australian Institute for Social Research, University of Adelaide - The Limits to Social Capital: Social Capital in the City of Playford
Sarah Robinson University of Western Australia, Anthropology and Sociology - Adoption and Adaptation - Professionalism in teaching
Penelope Moore, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester - Working, Thinking and Knowing with Audio-Visual Media in Music Worlds
