Cultural values, birth and parenting in Laos: Online discussion at ADI
The Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship (ADI) invited me to talk online about my current Future Fellowship research…
Webinar on TAEC Talks: Definition of Policy in Lao PDR
In this webinar for the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC) in Luang Prabang I discuss: What does “policy” mean…
‘Projectland’ on SSEAC Stories podcast
In this episode of the SSEAC Stories podcast, I speak with Natali Pearson from the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at…
Mothering in the Lao Revolution — Paper at AAS 2022
My paper ‘Mothering in the Lao Revolution: Sacrifice, masochism and other idealisations’ is inspired by women’s experiences of the Lao…
Upcoming conference panel: From Mothering as Reproduction to Mothering as Revolution
At the upcoming Australian Anthropology Society’s conference (Deakin University, November 23 – 26) I will host the panel From Mothering…
Ethnographies of the State
Recently, I was asked to present a “meet the author” talk to some students at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Social…
Interview on ‘More than Human Worlds’
The amazing Sophie Chao recently asked me some questions for her More than Human Worlds site. We talked about desire, fieldwork, why…
Interview on New Books Network: Projectland
I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Natali Pearson, of Sydney University’s Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. We talked about Lao…
Inalienable chickens
In 2018, I travelled to Laos for fieldwork in Kandon village accompanied by my husband Ed Annand (infectious disease epidemiologist…