Upcoming events
13
May
2024
Unsettling nature: Cross-cultural conversations about potential bioengineered conservation in the Torres Strait, Australia
Applied over generations, a bioengineered gene drive promises to radically reduce invasive species’ populations through suppressed breeding. As this technology...
16
May
2024
Crossing the ‘Green Sea’: palaeoecological signatures of early maritime mobility and remote island colonisation in the tropical Indian Ocean.
As humans have colonised new places, they often initiate dramatic environmental change, even in the distant past. On remote islands, where levels of endemism...
17
May
2024
Embodying the Western Maya Frontier: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Comalcalco and Moxviquil, Mexico
People signal and contest identity in a variety of ways and have done so for millennia. This fundamental aspect of human societies can be examined across space...
17
May
2024
The Rite to know: Pushing for an archaeology of rituals in Central-East Polynesia
The archaeology of ceremonial sites (marae) has been a focus of the discipline in Central-East Polynesia since the late 19th century. Pioneer work by K.P....
20
May
2024
Prof David Wengrow: What might an archaeology of freedom look like?
What might an archaeology of freedom look like?
In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and I describe three basic forms of human freedom: to move away, to...
20
May
2024
Platform Economies: Beyond the North-South Divide
Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and...
21
May
2024
Masterclass with Janet Roitman
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology together with the College of Asia-Pacific, and the Capitalism Studies Network are organizing a Science and...