Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples
Seminar
Organised in collaboration with the National Trust (ACT), Canberra Archaeological Society and the Friends of the National Library of Australia. In partnership with the ACT National Trust, the Friends present author Peter Dowling discussing his book, Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out…
Killer Loan Apps and the Entanglements of Digital Debt in India
Seminar
This talk introduces a new research project I will be conducting on digital lending and everyday forms of indebtedness in India through an analysis of scandals around “killer loan apps” developed by quasi-legal companies who engaged in aggressive loan recovery tactics that drove several borrowers…
Impacts of maternal exposure to severe tropical cyclones on birth outcomes
Seminar
The first 1,000 days of life are crucial in a child’s cognitive and physical development. The Developmental Origins of Health & Disease hypothesis postulates that early life stressors not only disrupt foetal development but also increase the risk of later life disease. Environmental disasters…
Why Hold a Winter Solstice Ceremony Once in 24 Years and Then Never Again?
Seminar
In early July 1972, a Warlpiri man invited me to a ceremony he was organising to shorten the night. As a new arrival in central Australia, I assumed that this must be an annual event but to my surprise found that it was twenty-four years since the ceremony had been previously held. At the time I…
Sorcery Accusation Related Violence: Fighting the Wildfire of SARV
Seminar
This seminar outlines some of the main findings of the project ‘Improving the Impact of State and Non-State Interventions in Overcoming Sorcery Accusation Related Violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG)’. The research was a collaboration between the Australian…
2022 CNTA Annual Conference: Protecting and managing the Indigenous Estate
Conference
CNTA’s 2022 Annual Conference has the theme Protecting and managing the Indigenous Estate, and will be held from 9-11 February. Originally, it had been intended that sessions would be conducted simultaneously in venues in Cairns, Darwin, Perth and potentially Canberra, while being available at all…
“Can You Policy?": Researching Lao Science and State in COVID Times
Seminar
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Abstract: In Lao PDR, the standard translation for policy is nanyubay. But this word is much older than contemporary definitions of policy as principles or courses of action followed by a party or…