Past events
25
Oct
2021
“Can You Policy?": Researching Lao Science and State in COVID Times
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Abstract: In Lao PDR, the standard translation for policy is nanyubay. But this...
21
Oct
2021
Early Career Showcase
For this week's seminar, we are showcasing Early Career Researchers in Biological Anthropology at the ANU.
Adam Bode is a PhD student in Anthropology at the...
18
Oct
2021
Life with Turing Machines: Ethics at the Edges of the Human
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Social media, robots, and algorithms are drawing people into new forms of social...
11
Oct
2021
Look After Them?: Life on Welfare in Australia Today
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr
Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939
Passcode: 800615
Since the 1990s, the receipt of social security in Australia has become more...
07
Oct
2021
How do you ‘fix’ a broken jaw?
The mandible is the most fractured bone of the face and has estimated annual treatment and rehabilitation costs of >$5 million in the USA. Mandible fracture...
27
Sep
2021
Expanding the Social World Downwards: Aquifers and Post-Extractivist Futures in Costa Rica
The history of Latin America has been marked by extractivist waves, from colonial times to the recent neo-extractivist turn of leftist governments in the...
23
Sep
2021
Identity, Poverty and the Great Irish Famine: Insights from Bioarchaeology
Food and diet were identity class markers in nineteenth-century Ireland, which became evident as nearly one million people, primarily the poor and destitute,...
