Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2001
Presentations
Collecting the Multiverse
Venue:Gallary Talk
Sponsor:San Antonio Museum of Art
Location:San Antonio Texas
Presentation Date:2022
Superheroes as Supermyths
Venue:San Antonio Museum of Art Lecture Series
Sponsor:San Antonio Museum of Art
Location:San Antonio Texas
Presentation Date:2022
Climate Change and Agriculture in Morobe Province
Venue:Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting
Sponsor:Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Location:Portland Oregon
Presentation Date:2022
More-than-human Infrastructures
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK
Sponsor:Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK
Location:On-line
Presentation Date:2021
Placepersons: Places that Relate through Work and Migration in Papua New Guinea
Venue:Va Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity
Sponsor:University of Auckland
Location:Auckland New Zealand, Honolulu Hawaii and virtual
Presentation Date:2021
Intense Places: Affect in Biangai Photography
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Sponsor:ASAO
Location:Hilo, Hawaii
Presentation Date:2020
Discussion of "Gardens of Gold: Placemaking in Papua New Guinea"
Venue:Cultural Anthroplogy Class
Sponsor:Dept of Anthropology, Columbia University
Location:Virtual, New York, New York
Presentation Date:2020
Media and Anthropology
Venue:Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Sponsor:Galen University of Belize
Location:Virtual
Presentation Date:2020
Intense Places: Affect in Biangai Photography
Venue:Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting
Sponsor:Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Location:Hilo, Hawaii
Presentation Date:2020
Gardens of Relations: Mapping Belonging to the Land
Venue:Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association
Sponsor:American Anthropology Association
Location:Vancouver, Canada
Presentation Date:2019
The Anthropology of Superheroes
Venue:Gallary Talk
Sponsor:San Antonio Museum of Art
Location:San Antonio, Texas
Presentation Date:2019
Intense Places: Affect in Biangai Photography
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Sponsor:ASAO
Location:New Orleans
Presentation Date:2018
Mining Nature, Mining Culture
Venue:Ecology and Culture University Seminar
Sponsor:Columbia University
Location:New York, New York
Presentation Date:2017
Superheroes and Supermyths: Towards an Anthropology of our Multiverse
Venue:The Carol S. Franklin Social Science Speaker Series
Sponsor:Cuyahoga Community College
Location:Cleveland, Ohio
Presentation Date:2017
Biangai responses to the 2015 El Nino
Venue:Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, Annual Meeting
Sponsor:Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania
Location:Kauai, Hawai'i
Presentation Date:2017
Knowing the Forest: Biangai Guides and Scientists
Venue:American Anthropology Association
Presentation Date:2016
Yams and Gold: Order, Entropy and Biangai Relations with Nature
Venue:American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting
Sponsor:American Anthropology Association
Location:Denver
Presentation Date:2015
Discussion of Jurassic Park
Venue:Barnard Film discussion series
Sponsor:Barnard University
Location:New York, New York
Presentation Date:2015
Agricultural Sovereignty in Morobe
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association Of Social Anthropology in Oceania
Sponsor:Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania
Location:Santa Fe, New Mexico
Presentation Date:2015
Becoming Farmers: Agriculture and Industrial Gold Mining in Papua New Guinea
Venue:Guest Lecture Series
Sponsor:Department of Anthropology, UT-Austin
Location:Austin, Texas
Presentation Date:2014
The Wau Ecology Institute and the Knowledge Economy
Venue:Annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Sponsor:ASAO
Location:Kona Hawai'i
Presentation Date:2014
Naturalist Histories, Making Nature in Oceania
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Location:San Antonio
Presentation Date:2013
People, Places and Time in Biangai photography. Symposium
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Sponsor:ASAO
Location:San Antonio
Presentation Date:2013
‘’We Practice What We Preach’: The Rise and Fall of the Wau Ecology Institute.’ Workshop
Venue:Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Sponsor:ASAO
Location:San Antonio
Presentation Date:2013
Publications
2010 ‘The Photographic Assemblage: Duration, history and photography in Papua New Guinea.’ Anthropology and History 21(4): 411-429.
2009 Lipset, David and Jamon Halvaksz. ‘Smoke as Mirror: Marijuana and Representations of the Nation in Pacific Newspapers.’ Ethnology 48(2): 119-138 [issue delayed by journal, published in August 2010]
2008 ‘Photographing Spirits: Indigenous Photography, Ancestors and the Environment in Papua New Guinea.’ As part of a special issue, Haunting Images: The affective power of photography. Ben Smith and Richard Vokes, Guest Editors. Visual Anthropology 21(4): 310-326.
2008 Halvaksz, Jamon and Heather Young-Leslie. ‘Thinking Ecographically: Places, Ecographers and Environmentalism.’ Nature+Culture 3(2): 183-205.
2008 ‘Whose Closure?: Appearances, Temporality and Mineral Extraction along the Upper Bulolo River, Papua New Guinea.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14: 21-37.
2007 ‘Cannabis and Fantasies of Development: Revaluing Relations through Land in Rural Papua New Guinea.’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 18(1): 56-71.
2006 ‘Another Kind of Gold: An Introduction to Marijuana in Papua New Guinea.’ As part of a special issue, Marijuana in Papua New Guinea, David Lipset and Jamon Halvaksz, Guest Editors. Oceania 76(3): 209-219.
2006 ‘Drug Bodies: Relations with Substances.’ As part of a special issue, Marijuana in Papua New Guinea, David Lipset and Jamon Halvaksz, Guest Editors. Oceania 76(3): 235-244.
2006 ‘Becoming ‘local tourists’: Travel, landscapes and identity in Papua New Guinea.’ Tourist Studies 6(2): 99-117.
2006 ‘Cannibalistic Imaginaries: Mining the Natural and Social Body in Papua New Guinea.’ As part of a special issue: Melanesian Mining Modernities, Paige West, and Martha Macintyre, Guest Editors. The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs 18(2): 335-359.
2003 ‘Singing about the Land among the Biangai.’ Oceania 7(3): 153-169.
1997 Halvaksz, Jamon and Elizabeth Hochberg. ‘Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Bibliographic Review Essay.’ As part of a special issue: Logging in the Southwestern Pacific, Kathleen Barlow and Steven Winduo, Guest Editors. The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs 9(1): 167-193.
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