A Glimpse Into the Future: How Well Can We Predict Facial Growth?
Seminar
Variation in human craniofacial morphology arises, in part, from complex differential patterns of growth that unfold from childhood to adulthood. A thorough understanding of these growth patterns is critical for clinicians as it forms the basis for careful diagnosis and treatment planning. In…
Archaeology of domestic life in Polynesia’s first Catholic kingdom: Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia 1830-1900
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.The Mangareva Islands of French Polynesia are a remote archipelago located about 1600km southeast of Tahiti. In 1834, French Catholic priests and lay brothers from the order of Sacrés Cœurs de Jésus et Marie arrived in the islands to establish the first…
Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language Problem
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language ProblemThis talk explores one of Korea’s most prominent yet fraught language issues: honorifics. In Korean, speakers use a detailed system of grammar and vocabulary to show…
How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western HimalayasA litany of universalizing diagnostic concepts have been coined to theorize the psychic effects of ecological destruction and climate change in the age of the Anthropocene…
Myanmar and the dissonance of salvation
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Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Myanmar and the dissonance of salvationFor about a decade prior to Myanmar’s February 2021 coup, there was a sense that the country was being saved. The “transition to democracy” was drawing an end to fifty years of military rule. For its small…
Decolonization as a State Project. New Zealand and Tokelau
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Decolonization as a State Project. New Zealand and TokelauTokelau, an atoll society comprising about 1400 people with a diasporic population of approximately 10.000 and is a “non-self-governing territory” of New Zealand. Coming under the New…
The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)Win Neisen is a local, indigenously developed church, that is the contemporary manifestation of the well-known Paliau Movement…