Past events
05
Nov
2020
Research Ethics Seminar: Ethics and Development Studies
Abstract
The issue of obtaining ethics clearance for research in development studies’ interdisciplinary fields is often a cause of frustration and confusion....
26
Oct
2020
Escaping Natures: an Ethnography of Life and Rent in Gran Sabana, Venezuela
Participants in the Wings Project (Proyecto Alas) sublimated all the characteristics of escapist visits to the Gran Sabana region, in southern Venezuela. A few...
22
Oct
2020
The human-ape interface in an unprotected Cameroonian forest
Abstract
The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) are two relatively unknown ape taxa...
19
Oct
2020
Anthropology of Childhood Memory: Family Photographs and Autobiographical Remembering
In this talk, Ms Helga (Girschik) Griffin and myself will talk about the life story of German civilians who moved to Persia (Iran) during 1930s for the...
15
Oct
2020
The impact of tourism on gibbons: developing best practice guidelines from case studies in Cambodia and China
Abstract
Nature-based tourism can be a useful conservation tool in regions of high biodiversity value if based on scientific research. Despite the existence...
12
Oct
2020
Fashion Forward: rewriting history and place in Oceania
The opening pages of Joanne Entwistle’s book The Fashioned Body (2015) asks an intriguing question: does fashion refer only to dress and adornment found in...
09
Oct
2020
Identification of fallen US soldiers from the Korean War using chest radiographs
Abstract
The USA Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s mission is the fullest possible accounting for missing service members to their families and the nation....
