Hildaland, or, Bringing the Ice: Reflections on Missing Persons, Intermittent Islands, and the Ethnography of Uncertain Presence
Seminar
Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long-term fieldwork on an experimental arts festival held annually in the Orkney Islands, this essay reflects on the challenges of documenting uncertain or intermittent…
Grandparental investment: This is just the beginning
Seminar
Exploring the lives of grandparents is a new and exciting field of enquiry. A multitude of factors influence the roles grandparents play in their families. Changing demographics mean there is greater demand and opportunity for actively engaged grandparents to help their families than ever before in…
The wall with a view of Europe: Two long years of the EU–Belarus border crisis
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The wall with a view of Europe: Two long years of the EU–Belarus border crisis The humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarus border has been unfolding since mid-2021, mostly out of public sight. Increasingly anxious about the raising numbers of people dying on the forested border, the EU came to…
These Days, These Homes: Miao domesticity, Chinese modernity
Seminar
Please note this seminar is available via Zoom only These Days, These Homes is a work in progress film project centered on the lives and homes of two Miao women in 21st century China. As an ethnography, the ethnography behind the film explores domesticity, gender, and development through a…
Predicting the economic outcomes of Australian permanent migrants
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Predicting the economic outcomes of Australian permanent migrants This research seeks to understand the extent that migrant characteristics (such as age, gender, education and English language skills, geographic location, permanent visa category, temporary visa history and country of birth) can…
After You: Reflections on More-Than-Human Hospitality in South Asia
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Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and the capture of Pakistani “spy pigeons” at the India-Pakistan border. By examining the moral values created through culturally enshrined values…
Sex differences in allometry for phenotypic traits
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Sex differences in the lifetime risk and expression of disease are well-known. Preclinical research targeted at improving treatment, increasing health span, and reducing the financial burden of health care, has mostly been conducted on male animals and cells. The extent to which sex differences in…