Environmental change and behavioural flexibility: Japanese monkeys and disability on Awaji Island, Japan
Seminar
What does it mean for an animal to have a physical disability? As human-induced environmental change increasingly impacts species and ecosystems in every part of the world, understanding behavioural flexibility and how animals cope with challenges can point to the selection pressures animals face…
Flexible fires: cultural burning and the settler-Indigenous interface
Seminar
Please note this event is available via Zoom only “What exactly is cultural burning?” During the seven years that I have been researching the revitalisation of Indigenous land and fire management practices in southeast Australia, this is the question I have been asked repeatedly by non-Indigenous…
Mobility Inequality: what do the long-term data actually show?
Seminar
Part of the Migration, Mobility & Movement Network Seminar Series presented by the School of Archaeology & Anthropology and The Migration Hub at the School of Regulation and Global Governance This research examines the key questions of "who migrates internationally and where do they go?"…
Children of the Ice Age: What can the study of past children tell us about human evolution?
Seminar
Abstract Children were a significant part of Palaeolithic – and other prehistoric – societies. Indeed, it is probable that children constituted the largest group of individuals in these communities, perhaps making up as much as 40% of the population. As such, the smallest members of society…
Qing Guan & Juliet Pietsch: Ethnic Minority Representation in the 2022 Australian Federal Election
Seminar
The 2022 Australian Federal election observed record-level ethnic minority candidates elected. However, the shares of candidates and elected Members of Parliaments with ethnic minority backgrounds are still much lower than their relative shares in the population. In this regard, Australia has…
The children of Vincentius
Seminar
Child separation has been thoroughly investigated in countries such as Canada and Australia, however, hardly anything concrete is known about the scope, policies and practices of child separation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Notwithstanding, the separation of children were at the heart…
Human Pairbonding: Reconciling the Major Paradigms in the Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences
Seminar
Many would agree on the usefulness of evolutionary theory for understanding our bodies. There is less agreement, however, regarding its usefulness for understanding human behaviour—and those who do see the value disagree on how it should be applied. Here, I compare and contrast the three major…