OPENING PANEL: INTRODUCTION TO KEY THEMES 

Panel Chairs, Dr Chrys Jaye & Dr Ruth Fitzgerald

3 talks, 15 mins duration, 3 mins for questions after each talk

NOTE: If the number of paper presentations so warrant, conference sessions may begin earlier this day, i.e., on Sunday. You may wish to keep this mind in making your travel plans.

Annual General Meeting For ASAANZ

Formal Welcome & welcome drinks and nibbles

First drink included in Registration.

PANEL: ANTHROPOLOGY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Panel Chair, Professor Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich

The last two decades have brought consistent and often radical change to the ideology and structure of tertiary education, globally and in New Zealand. This stretches far into the ways research is 'encouraged', planned and perceived by University management, how beliefs about good and bad teaching practises have shifted, and most importantly the enforcement of neo-liberal business models in the running of Universities. Students have become customers, academics have been re-defined as service providers and the state is increasingly treating Universities as quasi State Owned Enterprises. This panel will look at ways anthropological theory and methodology can assist in analysing and challenging these new structures while also uncovering some of their serious consequences.

4 talks, 15 mins duration, 3 mins for questions after each talk

PANEL: SACRED SITES AND MORAL COMMUNITIES - 1 of 3
Panel Chair, Dr Ruth Fitzgerald

5 talks, 15 mins duration, 3 mins for questions after each talk

This panel -- the first of three -- involves discussion of new religious movements, alternate forms of spiritual networks, contemporary meanings of sacred space and place and the rise of moral communities in secular landscape.

Morning Tea

Cost included in Registration

PANEL: SACRED SITES AND MORAL COMMUNITIES - 2 of 3
Panel Chair, Dr Ruth Fitzgerald

INVITED SPEAKER: “Lost in Space? Reconstructing the sacred site on anthropological grounds”

Lunch

Cost included in Registration

PANEL: HYBRID ANTHROPOLOGIES
Panel Chair, Dr Cyril Schafer

This panel includes discussion of anthropologies and anthropological work that is multi-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, that lies between disciplinary cracks or defies ‘typical’ field definitions, a type of ‘jack of all trades’ (‘master of none’) anthropology

INVITED SPEAKER: Membership and Participation: clinical communities and communities of clinicians

Afternoon Tea

Cost included in Registration

PANEL: COMMEMORATING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF RAEWYN GOOD – APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Panel Chair, Dr Tricia Laing

The late Raewyn Good, as principal analyst in the Ministry of Social Development, worked to establish SPEaR (The Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee). She was a key figure developing SPEaR guidelines for research practice that could be used as a basis for managing relationships among researchers, policy makers and service practitioners. The SPEaR guidelines also suggests strategies for fulfilling the societal requirement for ethical government research. If Raewyn had a personal mission it was to champion the groups that successive governments 'targeted'. For her this meant establishing a research infrastructure and a communities of research practice that would empower vulnerable and maginal people to speak and have their voices heard by decisionmakers. This panel invites abstracts for papers that explore the role of the SPEaR guidelines in creating communities of practice for researchers working in government agencies and the academy to give voice to vulnerable and marginal groups in society.

INVITED SPEAKER: Re-membering marginal voices in government research practice

PANEL: CANCELLED

Panel Chair, Dr Ruth Fitzgerald

1 talk, 15 mins duration, 3 mins for questions after talk/VLOG

7:30 PM

Conference Dinner at Le Café, Picton

Le Café is located a short walk from the conference venue. Directions will be provided at the conference.

PANEL: CYBERCOMMUNITIES, VIRTUAL REALITIES, DIGITAL CULTURES

Panel Chair, Dr Greg Rawlings

The panel welcomes papers on all aspects of the anthropological study of cyber-communities. These include but are not limited to: digital identities, subjectivities and personhood; digital communities of labor/work; the relationship between digital and other technologies/genres of community (from modes of production to expressive culture); the body in cyberia; gendered/feminist analyses of digitized production; protean distinctions between the private and public; potential new articulations between concepts of life, nature, artifice and community (including perhaps biotechnology, debates about the “post-human” etc): the relationships between digital and mass media; internet temporalities (the re-organization of routine temporal experience, the recalibration of concepts of progress and utopia, etc); cyberpolitics; and, not least, how the digitization-of-everything impacts anthropological practice, especially ethnography

INVITED SPEAKER: Communities, Communitas and Political Theology in Cyberia

Morning Tea

Cost included in Registration

PANEL: PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNITY

Panel Chair, Dr Graeme MacRae

Anthropology departments once functioned as “communities of practice”. Changes of funding and management have left staff and students relatively isolated with a widely felt need for collegiality and departmental community. New communication technologies open new possibilities for this. This panel/workshop seeks to explore these issues, possibilities and practical solutions.

INVITED SPEAKER: Anthropological Community beyond the Department

Lunch

Cost included in Registration

PANEL: TRANSNATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGIES

Panel Chair, Dr Chrys Jaye

This panel serves as a discussion forum for anthropologists working in or considering future research on transnational communities in an era of globalization

INVITED SPEAKER: The Making Of Debt And The 'Hidden Hand' Of The Global Economic Crisis: Tax Havens, Recessions And Transnational Money

Cultural Intimacy And Local Language Acquisition. Indian And South Korean Encounters Within The Transnational Buddhist Community.

Afternoon Tea

Cost included in Registration

PANEL: SACRED SITES AND MORAL COMMUNITIES - 3 of 3
Panel Chair, Dr Ruth Fitzgerald

Sites private and sites public - invoking the sacred in Saigon during Tet, the lunar new year