Paul Mason

Via selective submission of abstracts, Paul has presented his research at conferences in Australia, France, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, The Netherlands and The Philippines. He has been invited to deliver presentations in Australia, Cyprus, New Zealand and Indonesia. In 2008, Paul was awarded an ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network Conference Grant (2008) to co-organise and co-host the Music and Movements in Indonesian Culture Conference, Workshops and Performance at the Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia in Sydney, Australia.

Invited Presentations

• Stranger Genes, Science Comedy Talk, WA Comedy Week, Inspiring WA, SciTech West Perth, 29 November 2024.

• Neanderthal-human hybrids, Science Comedy Talk, Fringe Festival, Inspiring NSW, The Bank Newtown, 24 September 2024.

• "Humans: Will tuberculosis be our end?" presented at a seminar titled 'Tuberculosis: Is the end nigh?' at the College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, 9 August 2023.

• "The Normal", I Am Woman International Women's Day event, 8 March 2021.

• "What is normal?", Panania Probus Club, 8 February 2021.

• "An Anthropologist at the Zoo", Anthropology Seminar Series, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Sydney, 12 March 2020.

• "The idiom of freedom: Opening and closing space in ritual games of capoeira", The 4th annual conference of the centre for elite Performance, expertise and training, Macquarie University, Friday 8 November 2019.

• "Conspicuous Consumption: Tuberculosis and the pharmaceuticalisation of poverty", Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine Network Symposium on A pill for every ill?: Dialogues on drug practices, possibilities and harms, Monash University, Thursday 25 October 2018.

• "Listening to people talk about their experiences with tuberculosis on Daru Island, PNG", 7th Tuberculosis Control Symposium, University of Sydney, Friday 1 June 2018.

• Stories from the Science Lab, Melbourne Knowledge Week, City of Melbourne, Saturday 12 May 2018.

• Developing a Coping Self-Efficacy Scale for people diagnosed with tuberculosis in Vietnam, Qualitative Studies Investigator Group, Burnet Institute, Friday 9 February 2018.

• Qualitative TB research, Invited talk at Western Australia Tuberculosis Program, Thursday 14 December 2017.

• The Total Art Work, Invited talk at On the Origin of Art Macquarie University Research Enrichment Program Workshop, Friday 20 October 2017.

• Collaborating with Developing Countries, Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 5-7 April 2017.

• Reciprocity-building and the Globalisation of Science: Developing capacity and constructive cultures of collaboration, Australia-Indonesia Science Symposium, Australian Academy of Sciences, The Shine Dome, Australian Capital Territory, 28 November - 1 December 2016.

• "Dominant discourses and deterritorialised narratives: How western biomedical history is blinding us to the importance of basic innovations in tuberculosis care and prevention", Tuberculosis: Ethics, Law & Society, Centenary Institute, 18 October 2016.

• "The Idiom of Normalcy", Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday 15 December 2015.

• Human Rights/Law and TB workshop presented by Dr Paul Mason, Professor Angus Dawson, and Dr Jed Horner at the APR TB Union Conference, 31 August 2015.

• "Excluded from reciprocity: 'Free' medical treatment for tuberculosis patients in Vietnam", The Marie Bashir Institute Annual Colloquium, Sydney University, 6 November 2015.

• Plenary Talk, "Selectively, but not exclusively: understanding structural diversity and functional plasticity in complex systems", Woolcock Research Symposium, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, 20 August 2015.

• "Another stage of development: the vital role of degeneracy in healthy ageing", The 3rd Cyprus Symposium on 'Pathways to Indefinite Lifespans' at the Steghi Grammaton kai Technon (House of Arts and Literature), Larnaca, Cyprus, Saturday 23 May 2015.

• "What is Normal? What is Degenerate?", Centre for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population, Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday 25 April 2014.

• "Tuberculosis: A dynamic systems mapping approach", Tuberculosis Centre for Research Excellence, Centenary Institute, University of Sydney, 6 August 2013.

• "What is Normal", Manthan Thought Leader Speaker Series, Hyderabad, India, 23 November 2012.

• Invited discussant. Future Directions in Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of Social Sciences and Humanities-USSH, Hanoi, Vietnam, 8-10 March 2012.

Conference Presentations

Mason, P.H., Gigliotti, M. (2024) Playful Ethnographies: Interrogating play as a mode, topic, and application of ethnographic research, Australian Anthropology Society Annual Conference, University of Western Australia, 27-29 November 2024.

Mason, P.H. (2023) Rituals of Normality: Putting the gods back into human-centered, microethnography, Australian Anthropology Society Annual Conference, Theme: Vulnerabilities, Macquarie University, 29 November - 1 December 2023. Abstract here

Mason, P.H. (2022) Men's health-seeking behaviour for nonphysical domestic abuse in Australia, Australian Anthropology Society Annual Conference, Theme: Life Support, Deakin University, 23-25 November 2022. Abstract here

Mason, P.H. (2019) Thinking beyond "the human" in conservation education, biodiversity facilitation, and wildlife rehabilitation, Values in Anthropology, Values of Anthropology, Australian National University, 2-5 December.

Lisboa, M., Fronteira, I., Mason, P.H., Martins, M.D.R.O. (2018) Hospital-based Interventions for Tuberculosis Infection Control in Beira Central Hospital, Mozambique: An Exploratory Qualitative Study, 3rd World Conference on Qualitative Research 2018, Lisbon (Portugal), 17-19 October.

Mason, P.H. (2017) Chronicity and spatiality: the shifting cultural topography of chronicity in acute illness, Shifting States, Australian Anthropology Society Annual Conference, University of Adelaide, 15 December.

Mason, P.H., Dominguez D., J.F. (2017) Integrating Biological and Social Sciences in the Study of Bodily ageing, Monash Dementia and Neurodegeneration Research Network, Monash Biomedical Imaging, Clayton, Australia, 28 November.

Lipworth, W., Mason, P.H., Dive, L., Light, E., Kerridge, I. (2017) Biobank Networks, Medical Research and the Challenge of Globalisation. Governance of Biobanking in Biomedical Research. Asian Bioethics Review Research Conference, Singapore, 24-26 May.

Mason, P.H., Kerridge, I., Lipworth, W. (2017) Globalising the ‘Medical Gaze’: Research biobanks, epistemological imperialism and the pull of big data, New Zealand Bioethics Conference, Dunedin, University of Otago, 27–28 January.

Mason, P.H., Kerridge, I., Lipworth, W. (2016) Globalising bionetworks: research biobanks and the pull of big data, Australian Anthropology Society Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 12-15 December.

Mason, P.H., Lipworth, W., Kerridge, I. (2016) Deterritorialising Big Data: The grobalisation of biobanks and the glocalisation of their operations, The Australian Sociology Association 2016 Conference: ‘Cities and Successful Societies', Australian Catholic University, 28 November – 1 December.

Mason, P.H., Lipworth, W., Kerridge, I. (2016) Going Global: The Ethics of Biobanks in the Context of Globalisation, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) conference, 24-26 November.

Lipworth, W., Mason, P.H., Kerridge, I. (2016) Biobank Networks, Medical Research and the Challenge of Globalisation, 13th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, Edinburgh, 15 June 2016.

Mason, P.H. (2016) A Critical Interpretive Science of Research Translation and Translational Science, International Conference of Young Scientists, Bridging Worlds Through Science, Global Young Academy, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 25-29 May.

Mason, P.H., Lipworth, W., Fleming, J., Stewart, C., and Kerridge, I. (2016) The Ethics of Biobanks in the Context of Globalisation, Conference for the Sydney University Network for Bodies, Organs, and Tissues, University of Sydney, Thursday, 10 March.

Mason, P.H. (2016) Autotelism, degeneracy and choreutic cognition: Features of humanly organised expression that shape cultural transmission, Moving minds: Converting cognition and emotion in history, Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, 2-4 March 2016.

Mason, P.H. (2015) From Consumptive to consumer - an offer that cannot be refused, Moral Horizons: Managing medical uncertainty, Panel at the Australian Anthropology Society Conference, 1-4 December 2015.

Mason, P.H. (2015) Excluded from Reciprocity: "Free" medical treatment for tuberculosis patients in Vietnam, TB Control Symposium, Tuberculosis Centre for Research Excellence, 3-4 September 2015.

Barron, A.B., Balakrishnan, C.N., Hauber, M.E., Hoke, K.L., Mason, P.H., Hebets, E.A. (2015) Degeneracy in Complex Animal Signalling, 34th International Ethological Conference 2015, Cairns, Queensland, 9th - 14th August 2015.

Hebets, E.A., Balakrishnan, C.N., Hauber, M.E., Hoke, K.L, Mason, P.H., Barron, A.B. (2015) Communication goes multidisciplinary: a systems approach to animal signaling, 52nd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 10-14 June 2015.

Mason, P.H. (2014) The Idiom of Normality: Questioning the idiom and reevaluating degeneracy, Disorder--The University of Sydney Anthropology Symposium, 4-5 November.

Mason, P.H. (2014) The Idiom of Normality: Examining what is normal and reevaluating what is degenerate, Inter-university Neuroscience and Mental Health Conference, The University of Sydney, Tuesday 30 September.

Mason, P.H. (2014) 19th and 21st Century Consumption: The Growth of Structural Violence Against Diversity, Paper presented at "State, Society, Stigma: Rethinking Disease in a Global Age", Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Friday 27 June 2014, abstract p.18.

Mason, P.H. (2014) Pilgrimages of Health: Mapping the Moral Terrain of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Control Symposium, Thursday 1 May 2014.

Mason, P.H. (2013) Constellations of Pulmonary Citizenship: Tuberculosis, latent infection, active disease, co-infection, and at-risk populations, Biopolitics of Science and Medicine Symposium, Monash University, Friday 29th November 2013.

Mason, P.H. (2013) What is Normal? What is degenerate?, 7th Australian Cognitive Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Forum, Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, 25-26 November 2013.

Mason, P.H. (2012) “Humanly Organised Expressive Systems: Globalised repertoires of sound and gesture”, Language Culture Mind, Universidad Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, 27-29 June 2012, pages 162-163

Mason, P.H. (2012) “Sound Movement: Self-accompanied & Musician-accompanied West Sumatran Plate-dancing”, 2nd Symposium of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (PASEA), Manila, Philippines, 14-19 June 2012.

Mason, P.H. (2011) The Degeneracy of the Creative Process: the diverse musical structures and movement repertoires of West Sumatran and Afro-Bahian fight-dancing, Panel on Disentangling the Creative Procees at The annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS), the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa / New Zealand (ASAANZ), 5-8 July.

Mason, P.H. (2010) Modes of Transmission: Traditional West Sumatran and Contemporary West Javanese Practices of Indigenous Martial Arts, 1st Symposium of the International Council of Traditional Music Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, 10-13 June, pages 13-14.

Mason, P.H. (2009) Fight-dancing and the Festival: An exploration of the internal dynamics of fight-dancing in regional festivals, Paper presented at The Ethics and Politics of Engagement: the Annual meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society, 9-11 December.

Mason, P.H. (2008) The Neuroanthropologist and the Self-Accompanied Dancer, Speed-paper presented at the Music and Movements in Indonesian Cultures Conference, Workshop and Performance at the Consulate of Indonesia in Maroubra, 7-9 October.

Mason, P.H. Pencak Silat: The International Mobilisation of Indo-Malayan Tradition. Second International Conference on Southeast Asia: Rethinking Regionalism, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 3rd - 4th December 2007. p36.

Mason, P.H. (2006) The Neuroanthropology of Non-verbal communication. Paper presented at the Second Language Culture and Mind Conference, Paris, France. Language Culture and Mind: Integrating perspectives and methodologies in the study of language, published abstract, 85-86.

Poster Presentations

Mason, P.H., Singh, P., Nhung, D.T., Ho, J., Nguyen, T.A., Fox, G., Marks, G.B. (2015) Coping Self-efficacy for Tuberculosis Treatment in Ca Mau, Vietnam, Poster Presentation at 5th Conference of The Union Asia Pacific Region, Sydney, Australia, 31 August - 2 September.

Cheung, J.M.Y., Bartlett, D.J., Laba, T., Armour C.L., Mason, P. H., Saini, B. (2015) Mapping out the Illness Trajectories of Patients with Insomnia: Comparisons between a Clinic and Community Patient Population, Poster Presentation at SLEEP, Seattle, 6-10 June.

Singh, P., & Mason, P.H. (2014) Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means: Self-efficacy among TB patients in Vietnam, Inter-university Neuroscience & Mental Health Conference, University of Sydney, Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th September.

Mason, P.H. (2009) Movements into Neuroanthropology: The use of music and movement to study the relationship between brain and culture, Poster Presentation at The Ethics and Politics of Engagement: the Annual meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society, 9-11 December.

Mason, P.H. (2006) Music, movement and metaphor: An investigation of degeneracy in human behaviour, Human Communication Sciences (HCSNet) SummerFest '06, Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney, 62.

Seminar Presentations

Mason, P.H. (2016) Conspicuous Consumption: Demanding compliance but denying reciprocity for people living with TB. Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, 9 June 2016.

Mason, P.H. (2016) An Offer that cannot be refused: Tuberculosis and the medicalisation of poverty. Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, 3-5pm, 28 April 2016.

Mason, P.H. (2016) The global is not a given. Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, 12-1pm, 28 April 2016.

Mason, P.H. (2016) Beyond the numbers: integrating biomedical knowledge and illness narratives. Respiratory Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 1-2pm, 24 February 2016.

Mason, P.H. (2015) Tuberculosis in Vietnam: an ethnography of coughs, cures and conspicuous consumption. Department of Social Anthropology, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Thursday 19 February 2015.

Mason, P.H. (2014) Presentation about Tuberculosis Screening delivered to the World Health Organisation on World TB Day, Venue: Centre for Social Disease Prevention, Ca Mau, Vietnam, Tuesday 25 March.

Mason, P.H. (2014) Human Research Ethics, Centre for Social Disease Prevention, Ca Mau, Vietnam, Wednesday 26 February.

Mason, P.H. (2013) Tuberculosis: Seven concepts from the social model. Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Think Tank, 31 Oct - 1 Nov.

Mason, P.H.(2010) Indonesian and Brazilian Fight-dancing, Anthropology Colloquium, Macquarie University.

Mason, P.H. (2010) Fight-dancing and the Festival: An exploration of the internal dynamics of fight-dancing in regional festivals, Macquarie Anthropology Research Showcase, 11-13 May.

Mason, P.H. (2006) Fighting for Peace of Mind: A cross-cultural comparison of Capoeira and Pencak Silat. Cross-cultural Dance Seminar: Choreographies of Identity and Difference, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, 11 December, pp. 88-97.

Mason, P.H. (2006) The Primal Metaphor: Music, Movement and the Problem of Meaning Construction. MMM Seminar MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Conference Room 1, Building 23, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, 20 November.

Public Talks

• "Brains, Dance, Neanderthals, Tuberculosis and the Theory of Evolution", National Science Week, Science Open Day at the Woolcock Institute, 20 August 2016.
• "Brains, Dance, Neanderthals, Tuberculosis and the Theory of Evolution", National Science Week, Science Open Day at the Woolcock Institute, 22 August 2015, midday talk.
• "What is tuberculosis?", Trường THPT Cà Mau (Ca Mau High School), Vietnam, Monday 26 January 2015.
• World Music and Dance, Heritage Space, Dolphin Plaza, Hanoi, Vietnam, Saturday 26 April 2014.
• Anthropology Careers Night, Macquarie University, 10 October 2013.
• Careers and Goals Presentation, "What is Anthropology?", for the Year twelve students, Nazareth College, 31 March 2011.

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