Academic Programme

We are excited to announce the programme for the 2026 AAS Conference is now live!

Click HERE for the pdf version. Please note, the pdf does not include recent programme changes. Updates are being made regularly in the online programme (click the button above).

Members may also access the programme from the ‘Events’ menu in their member profile.

Programme amendments

The online programme is updated regularly. The pdf version of the programme was last updated on 4 June 2026.

We have endeavoured to list programme changes that are not reflected in the pdf version are listed below. Where in doubt, the online Programme is the definitive version.

(click on headings below to expand list)

- Satellite event added: Experiments in Form :: An exhibition of new media from country :: Opening Night, Tue 9 June, 18:00-20:00, Ahirre VR Lab - 64 Todd Mall, Alice Springs
- Satellite event added: Signatures of Earth - additional screening, Thu 11 June, 18:00-20:00, Ahirre VR Lab - 64 Todd Mall, Alice Springs
- Updated presentation order, Lines of Sustenance, Layers of Meaning, and the Place of Food in Anthropology (2), Thu 11 June, 13:30-15:00, CC Ellery A
  - ‘Prosperity and Precarity: Luxury Tourism in a Food-Insecure Island’, Olga Aurora Nandiswara (Universitas Gadjah Mada), Abellia Anggi Wardani (Universitas Indonesia)
  - ‘Metabolic (in)justice on the West Papuan plantation frontier’, Sophie Chao (University of Sydney)
  - ‘Bioactives, Waste Valorisation, and the Exploitation of a Regulatory Spandrel: A structural analysis of functional foods’, Paul Mason (Macquarie University)
  - ‘From Molecules to Shelf: Translating Bioactives in the Anthropocene’, Sadaf Zahra (Macquarie University)
- Updated paper title and session change: ‘Floating with Water: Migration, Eco-Creativity and the Human–Environmental Transformation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Iceland’, Yi Li (University of Otago), moved to panel: Transforming human and environmental ecologies, Fri 12 June, 9:00-10:30, CC Ellery C
- Updated end time for the Welcome Reception, Wednesday 10 June, 17:30-22:00, OPBG Gazebo-adjacent
- Joseph Owens, ‘Drawing Lines Through Refugee Lives: The Researcher, UNHCR, and Storylines of Subjectivity’, Thu 9:00-10:30, DKP Corkwood Room
- Floating with Water: Islands, Borderlines and Symbolic Boundaries, Thu 11 June 2026 11:45-12:30, DKP Corkwood Room