Early Career Showcase
Seminar
For this week's seminar, we are showcasing Early Career Researchers in Biological Anthropology at the ANU. Adam Bode is a PhD student in Anthropology at the Australian National University. Adam has degrees in psychology and law and considers himself an interdisciplinary social scientist who uses…
Life with Turing Machines: Ethics at the Edges of the Human
Seminar
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Social media, robots, and algorithms are drawing people into new forms of social relations with their devices, with other people, and, arguably, with themselves. What are the ethical consequences? Recent…
Look After Them?: Life on Welfare in Australia Today
Seminar
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Since the 1990s, the receipt of social security in Australia has become more conditional as well as more punitive, in concert with a broader global transition. I have been researching the lived effects of two…
How do you ‘fix’ a broken jaw?
Seminar
The mandible is the most fractured bone of the face and has estimated annual treatment and rehabilitation costs of >$5 million in the USA. Mandible fracture treatment may involve surgically fitting small titanium miniplates across the fracture to stabilise the bony segments while they heal to…
Expanding the Social World Downwards: Aquifers and Post-Extractivist Futures in Costa Rica
Seminar
The history of Latin America has been marked by extractivist waves, from colonial times to the recent neo-extractivist turn of leftist governments in the region. Costa Rica, however, fits awkwardly in this broad regional history. Not only has the country banned large scale extraction of minerals…
Identity, Poverty and the Great Irish Famine: Insights from Bioarchaeology
Seminar
Food and diet were identity class markers in nineteenth-century Ireland, which became evident as nearly one million people, primarily the poor and destitute, died as a consequence of the notorious Great Famine of 1845–52. Nearly 1,000 individuals who perished during the Famine were discovered at…
The Enduring Logic of Mercy and its Discontents
Seminar
Drawing from research on the Iranian criminal justice system as well as international laws of war and peace, this talk explores the tensions between humanitarianism and human rights, examining how discourses of care mask, seep into, and overtake endeavors that seek justice through human rights. In…