Past events
14
Aug
2019
Engendering the Anthropocene in Oceania: Fatalism, Resilience, Resistance
The concept of the Anthropocene, as Dipesh Chakrabarty observes, confounds Eurocentric distinctions of natural and human history. But who are ‘we’ in the...
07
Aug
2019
Subversive Archaism: When Local Communities Exceed State Traditionalism – and Suffer the Consequences
Drawing on fieldwork in Thailand and Greece, and on comparative examples from other parts of the world, the speaker will address what happens when local...
31
Jul
2019
The Informal Economy of the Just Share in Indonesia’s Motorbike-Taxi Industry
About the Lecture
Indonesia’s new ride-hailing economy is touted as a partnership between the motorbike-taxi-drivers and the company that owns the smart-phone...
25
Jul
2019
02
Jul
2019
Babies, brains, tools, & war: Trends in human evolution
Natural selection for walking on two legs (bipedalism) in our ancestors was associated with evolutionary-developmental (‘evo-devo’) changes in the physical...
