Past events
30
Sep
2024
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and the Event
Radical activists struggle to assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects, and for their potential longer-term consequences. Provisional...
23
Sep
2024
Spiritual Fandom: Pentecostalism, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Hillsong
This paper draws on my new book Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (OUP 2024). It argues that, as Hillsong became a...
20
Sep
2024
Kin and Connection: bodies and relations in archaeology and ancient genetics
Kin and Connection: bodies and relations in archaeology and ancient genetics
In conjunction with more precise absolute dating, biomolecular data (ie, aDNA,...
20
Sep
2024
Human-alloprimate coexistence? Current debates and considerations
Facilitating co-existence, defined here as sustainable sympatry, between humans and alloprimates requires careful thought and attention to an array of...
16
Sep
2024
Monsters and Crises
This paper has two aims: (1) to introduce the broader project of Monster Anthropology that my colleague Geir Presterudstuen and I have been working on for over...
26
Aug
2024
The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
In the dry season of 1889 on the remote northwest coast of Australia, a station manager with a violent past went in search of a white man rumoured to be living...
23
Aug
2024
Vietnam’s Role in Understanding Settlement and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia from c. 5000 – 3500 BP.
Vietnam’s Role in Understanding Settlement and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia from c. 5000 – 3500 BP.
Vietnam possesses some of the best-preserved...
