Craniofacial development in bats: Insights into the evolution of laryngeal echolocation
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.Bats are known for their ability of laryngeal echolocation producing of high-frequency pulses from their larynx and interpreting returning echoes to track their prey and avoid obstacles in the night sky. The evolution of laryngeal echolocation within…
New Thinking About the Origins of Material Symbols
Seminar
At some point our evolutionary past (exactly when is debated, though most would say within the last 200 ky years or so), our ancestors began to regularly produce material symbols (e.g., jewellery, parietal art, etc.). As yet, there's no widely accepted account as to what drove this intuitively…
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…
Unearthing the Plain of Jars: New Dates, New Finds, New Questions
Seminar
Recent excavations at the Plain of Jars have changed our understanding of this unique megalithic landscape. Archaeological investigations have uncovered buried ceramic and stone jars, mortuary features marked with limestone slabs and boulders, and a diverse array of related material culture.…
“If I Were His Mother”: Race, Kinship and Redemption in Brazil’s Prisons
Seminar
Presented in-person and online. Zoom details below.Why are Brazilian men’s prisons saturated with anxieties about motherhood? Drawing on my forthcoming book—Where the Sun Rises Square: Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil (Stanford University Press, November 2025)—this…
Passive acoustic monitoring for sportive lemur conservation
Seminar
Passive acoustic monitoring promises a more efficient and cost-effective survey alternative for vocal taxa, but its use remains atypical in primatology. My PhD research seeks to build a passive acoustic monitoring framework for one of the world’s most endangered primates, the Nosy Be sportive lemur…
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…