Roots and Rhizomes: Theorizing Inequality in Osteoarchaeology
Seminar
With its capacity to interrogate both identity and lived experience in the human past, osteoarchaeology provides an essential toolkit with which to examine embodied inequalities. Much of the osteoarchaeological literature on inequality, however, pertains to historic periods and the embodied…
2025 Honours Students poster presentations
Seminar
This week's Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) seminar will be poster presentations by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology's Honours students. Presented in person and online, Zoom details below.William JonesTitle: The Archaeobotany of Con Dat, VietnamAbstract: Archaeobotany…
Myanmar and the dissonance of salvation
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Myanmar and the dissonance of salvationFor about a decade prior to Myanmar’s February 2021 coup, there was a sense that the country was being saved. The “transition to democracy” was drawing an end to fifty years of military rule. For its small…
How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.How should we theorize ecological distress? A view from the Western HimalayasA litany of universalizing diagnostic concepts have been coined to theorize the psychic effects of ecological destruction and climate change in the age of the Anthropocene…
Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language Problem
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Troubled Emblem: The Social History of Honorifics as Korea’s Language ProblemThis talk explores one of Korea’s most prominent yet fraught language issues: honorifics. In Korean, speakers use a detailed system of grammar and vocabulary to show…
How Family Helps: Extended family engagement in raising First Nations children and its associations with health and wellbeing
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.It is widely accepted in anthropology that humans evolved as co-operative breeders, requiring help from an extended, flexible network of people to raise children. However, few studies are designed around understanding the importance of extended family,…
Archaeology of domestic life in Polynesia’s first Catholic kingdom: Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia 1830-1900
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.The Mangareva Islands of French Polynesia are a remote archipelago located about 1600km southeast of Tahiti. In 1834, French Catholic priests and lay brothers from the order of Sacrés Cœurs de Jésus et Marie arrived in the islands to establish the first…