In this episode, Mythily talks to Anne Galloway and Laura McLauchlan. Anne is a former academic and current farm witch who, in both roles, has spent a weird amount of time getting to know sheep. Laura is a multispecies anthropologist at the Soc

Episode #48: Ceridwen Dovey

May 12th, 2022 54m 43s

We return with a conversation recorded, this past summer, between Ceridwen Dovey and our own Timothy Neale and David Boarder Giles. Dovey is a Sydney-based writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and in-depth essays and profiles, as well as a

Episode #47: Jessica Cattelino

Feb 16th, 2022 1h 6m

For this episode, Cameo and Tim caught up with Professor Jessica Cattelino of the University of California Los Angeles. Jessica is a sociocultural anthropologist who has worked extensively with Seminole people of Florida in the United States. H

Episode #46: Malini Sur

Nov 3rd, 2021 58m 35s

This month we bring to you a wonderful conversation between Matt and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Dr. Malini Sur. Malini is a socio-cultural anthropologist with research interests in India, Bangladesh and Aust

Episode #45: Will Smith and Monica Minnegal

Sep 28th, 2021 56m 36s

In this episode, Tim sits down with Associate Professor Monica Minnegal to chat to Dr. Will Smith, an environmental anthropologist and research fellow at Deakin University. Will’s book, ‘Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philip

Episode #44: Fred Myers and Jason Gibson

Aug 17th, 2021 59m 20s

Cameo Dalley talks to Fred Myers (Silver Professor at New York University) and Jason Gibson (Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellow at Deakin University), both of whom work on Aboriginal Australian ceremony and material culture. The conversation roa

Episode #43: Imelda Miller and Olivia Robinson

Jun 27th, 2021 53m 7s

In this episode, Cameo speaks with Imelda Miller, of the Queensland Museum, and Olivia Robinson, of the State Library of Queensland. With over two decades of curatorial work and collaboration, they not only share their insights about collection

Episode #42: Hugh Raffles

May 29th, 2021 1h 8m

We are delighted to bring you a conversation between Matt, Tim, and Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought at The New School, Hugh Raffles. Raffles is the author of three boo

Episode #41: Kathleen Belew, Britt Halvorson, Joshua Reno, and Alexandra Minna Stern

May 2nd, 2021 55m 43s

This episode brings together historians and anthropologists to explore questions that are anthropological in scale: race, racism, whiteness, white supremacy, and white nationalist movements in North America and Europe. Kathleen Belew is an Assi

Episode #40: Sarah Besky and Mythri Jegathesan

Mar 4th, 2021 1h 12m

Pop the kettle on and sit back for our first 'tea' themed episode! For this episode, Matt invited Michael Dunford, a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at ANU whose research explores labour, language, and tea in Myanmar, to join him in conversation

Episode #39: Alex Blanchette and Catie Gressier

Feb 1st, 2021 1h 1m

Hello anthro-enthusiasts, we are back for 2021 with a conversation convened by Cameo Dalley on animals, industrialisation, eating and all the manifold issues that unfold at their intersections, featuring special guests Alex Blanchette and Catie

Episode #38: Radhika Govindrajan

Dec 9th, 2020 49m 14s

Cruising towards the end of 2020, we are back with a new conversation between Matt, Tim and Radhika Govindrajan about relatedness, lives with other species, and the changing context for doing ethnography today. Dr Gonvindrajan is Associate Prof

Episode #37: Davydd Greenwood, Melinda Hinkson and Cris Shore

Nov 9th, 2020 1h 5m

In this episode, David Giles fires up the international teleconference machine to convene a conversation between Davydd Greenwood, Melinda Hinkson and Cris Shore about austerity, anthropology and the contemporary university. Greenwood is Goldwi

Episode #36: Nick Seaver and Thao Phan

Oct 6th, 2020 1h 11m

Algorithms and artificial intelligence are on the menu for our 36th adventure in anthropology! In this episode, we present two conversations with two great Science and Technology Studies scholars: Dr Nick Seaver and Dr Thao Phan. Dr Seaver, an

Episode #35: Catherine Besteman

Sep 2nd, 2020 51m 13s

The crew have logged on for another episode - live from lockdown - to talk life, the universe and anthropology. In this episode, Tim and Mythily speak with Dr Catherine Besteman, an anthropologist who has spent their career analyzing the power

Episode #34: Anne Pollock

Aug 4th, 2020 56m 20s

In this episode, we continue to explore the outer limits of collegiality during a pandemic and bring you a conversation with Professor Anne Pollock and special guest host Professor Emma Kowal (Deakin University). Dr Pollock is Professor of Glob

Episode 33: Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Risa Cromer

Jul 6th, 2020 55m 44s

We at 'Conversations in Anthropology' hope you are all surviving and thriving as we bring you another episode, recorded by our very own David Boarder Giles during a (pre-pandemic) trip to Turtle Island (aka North America) and the American Anthr

Episode 32: Anna Tsing

Jun 7th, 2020 39m 2s

Hello, anthro-enthusiasts! In this episode, we present a pre-COVID conversation that David Giles recorded with the esteemed anthropologist Anna Tsing, a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and di

Episode 31.4: Jolynna Sinanan

May 28th, 2020 19m 2s

Here, in the last of our mini-podcasts on crisis and digital research, Mythily is in conversation with anthropologist Jolynna Sinanan (Research Fellow in Digital Media and Ethnography at the University of Sydney). Jolynna's research focusses on

Episode 31.3: Susan Wardell

May 14th, 2020 22m 22s

This conversation is the third in our mini-pod series on crisis and the digital. In it, Mythily Meher speaks to Susan Wardell while they are in lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand. They talk about the shape of work, life, distress and future resea

Episode 31.2: Jonah Lipton

May 8th, 2020 23m 45s

Number 2 in our series of mini-episodes featuring conversations with anthropologists about crisis and the digital. This episode, Timothy Neale speaks to Jonah Lipton, a post-doctoral researcher based at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and the

Episode 31.1: Adia Benton

Apr 30th, 2020 24m 56s

We're changing up our schedule and format a little to bring you some mini-episodes of short and sharp conversations with anthropologists around the themes of crisis and the digital. The first conversation is with Adia Benton, Associate Professo

Episode #30: Rick Smith and Megan Warin

Apr 7th, 2020 56m 27s

Hello friends, how are you? Are you running out of listening content? We are back with a new episode, featuring a conversation recorded by Matt Barlow (in the days before physical distancing) with Rick Smith and Megan Warin. Rick is a biocultur

Episode #29: Jason De León and Teresa Mares

Mar 9th, 2020 52m 32s

We’ve got a roving mic on the loose. In this episode, that mic is in the hands of David Giles, as he roamed the halls of the 2019 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society in Tkaronto/Toronto. T

Episode #28: Michael M.J. Fischer

Feb 10th, 2020 43m 9s

We are back for 2020 with a new episode, a new name and a new and larger collective to bring you further conversations about the state of anthropology and what it has to tell us in the twenty-first century. In this episode, we present a convers