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…
The Whole Body has entered the Chat: A Manifesto to the Multivariate Phenotype
Seminar
Phenotypes are multidimensional. Yet many contemporary methodologies lack the capability to fully quantify the biological complexity of dynamic and multivariate processes. Utilizing virtual modalities and bespoke Bayesian modelling, this seminar expounds upon the value of thinking multivarietly…
PossumLab: Thinking through Human-Animal Relationships with "Man's Best"
Seminar
Presented in person and online - details below.PossumLab is a space to explore creative ethnographic work. Every semester, we read two comics and use them as a way to explore anthropological concepts. In the first instalment for 2026, Kylie Dolan and V. Chitra invite you to read and discuss Boom…