Past events
01
Nov
2024
Darwin’s Lovers: Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Love
Adam’s presentation is his Oral Presentation milestone for his PhD thesis, Darwin’s Lovers: Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Love. Adam will discuss five...
25
Oct
2024
Neanderthal lifeways on the dark side of the Pre-Pyrenees
Neanderthals were the first extinct human relative to become known to science and have an iconic significance in human evolution. Recent research has clarified...
21
Oct
2024
Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central...
18
Oct
2024
The earliest multi-island obsidian exchange network and exciting discoveries from Wetar Island, Indonesia
Our species embarked on the world’s first great maritime journey from Sunda (greater Southeast Asia) to Sahul (greater Australia) at least 50,000 years ago. In...
18
Oct
2024
Frailty, mortality and complexity: The osteological paradox and beyond
Paleoepidemiology is concerned with exploration of disease of past population, and in particular the mortality risk associated with factors such as skeletal...
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...
