Keynote Speakers
Ian Barber
Ian is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago. He was formerly Senior Archaeologist with the NZ Historic Places Trust. He has directed archaeological survey and excavation projects in northern, central and southern New Zealand and undertaken research visits to Easter Island/Rapa Nui, Hawaii and the North American continent.
His current research interests include New Zealand Maori archaeology, Polynesian crop production, cultural contact and conflict, sacred space and identity and the politics of archaeology as cultural heritage. He is published in book compilations and in national and international journals, including Current Anthropology and World Archaeology. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, researching on the anthropology of the sacred site. In 2008 he won a research grant from the Friends of the Princeton University Library to continue North American research on the sacred site project at Princeton University Library Special Collections.
Contact: ian.barber@otago.ac.nz
Chrystal Jaye
Chrystal is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice, Dunedin School of Medicine, New Zealand. She is a medical anthropologist who practices hybrid anthropology across the fields of public health, family practice, and medical education.
Currently, she holds the office of Hon. Treasurer for ASAA/NZ and is the Subscription Manager for Sites.
Contact: chrystal.jaye@otago.ac.nz
Gautam Ghosh
Gautam Ghosh studied anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Chicago His publications include a Special Issue of the journal Social Analysis [42(1)] entitled Partition, Unification, Nation: Imagined Moral Communities in Modernity which he edited and to which he contributed two articles (reprinted by Sage India in 2004). He has edited a series of commentaries by prominent anthropologists on September 11th 2001 (Anthropological Quarterly, v.75 Winter 2001). An article, entitled "Outsiders At Home," appeared in Everyday Life in India (Indiana University Press, 2002). He has received awards from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, MacArthur & Rockefeller Foundations, as well as the Davis Center of Princeton University. He has served on a number of editorial boards including Anthropological Quarterly and the International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. A long-standing member of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Refugees & Immigration (CORI) he was recently elected an officer of CORI's umbrella organization The Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology.
He is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Gender and Sociology, University of Otago. He will be coordinating and chairing a panel on “Cybercommunities, Virtual Realities, Digital Cultures” for the 2009 annual meeting of the ASAANZ in Picton.
Please contact Gautam at the email addresses below if you are interested in participating in the panel.
Contact: gautam.ghosh@otago.ac.nz or gghosh2@gmail.com.
Graeme MacRae
Graeme trained initially as an architect, became a builder and gardener, travelled and explored sustainable/community lifestyles until there was nowhere left to go but anthropology. He now helps students find their way into anthropology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Massey University, Auckland.
His research is mostly in Bali, but also Java and south India, on a wide range of topics, especially development and environmental issues, architecture and urban design.
Website: http://sscs.massey.ac.nz/macrae.htm
Contact: G.S.MacRae@massey.ac.nz
Tricia Laing
Dr Tricia Laing has had involvement in research in both the university and government sectors. She has been on Health Research Council research committees and a reviewer for ALAC and FRST. She has taken a key role in the establishment of research units and been involved in establishing social sciences priorities. She has supervised and examined students enrolled in postgraduate degrees in anthropology, social work and other social sciences. She has published in the areas of Maori and Pacific traditional healing, health services research, social housing and research methods.
In the last five years she has worked as a senior research and evaluation analyst for Housing New Zealand Corporation in which role she has designed, commissioned and managed evaluations of the Community Renewal, Healthy Housing and Rural Housing programmes, and the Housing Innovation Fund. She has managed an Economic Analysis of Housing Interventions and the Future Scenarios of Social Housing project. Currently she is leading a longitudinal study of Housing New Zealand applicants and tenants and participating in a cross-departmental research project on housing energy affordability.
Tricia represents Housing New Zealand on the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee, and is a member of Social Science Committee of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Contact: Patricia.Laing@hnzc.co.nz
Gregory Rawlings
Gregory is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Gender and Sociology at the University of Otago. With a PhD in social anthropology from the Australian National University, he teaches on globalisation, transnationalism and money.
His research is broadly in the areas of political, legal and economic anthropology. Specifically, Greg researches and writes on tax havens, offshore finance centres, money laundering, property, citizenship and human rights.
Contact: greg.rawlings@otago.ac.nz