Affective Resilience of Aging: Social Networks and Care Work Among Older Adults in Chiangmai, Thailand
Seminar
Presented in person and online; details below.This study examines the resilience of older adults in urban Chiang Mai, Thailand, focusing on how they actively contribute as caregivers, disaster responders, and community leaders within the contexts of social and environmental precarity. Drawing on…
Parramatta Redux: Film screening & discussion
Film
Presented online via Zoom (link below)Parramatta Redux (38 minutes) uncovers the resilience of those who have called Parramatta home-from its First Nations custodians, whose deep spiritual connection to the river has endured for millennia, to early European settlers navigating unfamiliar lands, and…
Plant use in ancient northern Australia: evidence from linguistics
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.In many parts of the world, the matching of reconstructable words from ancestral 'proto-languages' to archaeological evidence of plant presence and use (ranging from palynological studies of species ranges to fossil evidence of plant use, such as…
Korean Dreams, Revisited: Vietnamese Women’s Stories of Repeat Marriage Migration
Seminar
Presented in person and online; details below.Marriage migration between Vietnam and South Korea has grown exponentially since the early 2000s, with more than 100,000 Vietnamese women marrying Korean men by the end of 2020. Although often imagined as a one-time, linear movement dictated by global…
Inside Australian Land Claims: Some Anthropological Perspectives
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.This paper is a continuation of my long-standing interest in the interaction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and institutions, which I have called `intercultural’. The paper focuses substantively on some aspects of the intercultural in…
Archaeological research on Epi Island, central Vanuatu
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.Epi Island is situated near the centre of the Vanuatu archipelago in the southwest Pacific. For most of their human history, Epi and its neighbour Tongoa were connected as a single landmass – the island of Kuwae. In the mid-fifteenth century CE, a…
Deciphering Diet: Primate Nutritional Ecology and Social Behavior in a Changing World
Seminar
Examining nutritional ecology in relation to social behavior in extant primates enables testing predictions of primate socioecological models. African guenons, one of the largest and most diverse radiations of primates, have subtler intragroup social dynamics than other cercopithecines, leading to…