Workshop on managing Trust funds
Workshop
Trustee corporations and their Indigenous beneficiaries: meeting challenges in the sustainable utilisation of trust funds. Presentations from a workshop held in Alice Springs, 27-28 May, 2021. This workshop focussed on the governance of compensation and other such funds held in trust for…
Book Launch: Philanthropic Foundations in International Development Rockefeller, Ford and Gates
Book launch
This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them. The idea of corporate philanthropy stretches back a long way, with the late 19th industrialist Andrew Carnegie seeing it as an important obligation of the very…
Humanitarian Confessions: Ethnography, Autobiography and the Locations of Religion in Aidland
Seminar
Humanitarian autobiographies provide compelling windows for analysing the locations of religion within the international aid and development sector. Free from the genre constraints of fundraising appeals or development scholarship, religion and spirituality are frequently given considerable space…
Exploring stress and social inequality through the lens of spatial bioarchaeology
Seminar
Zoom Link : shorturl.at/gjzDK Advances in the bioarchaeological conceptualization of inequality have emphasized social power the driver of variation in social status. These power imbalances become embodied in the skeleton as skeletal stress markers, allowing the identification of structural…
Post Apocalypse Stress Syndrome in the Age of COVID-19
Seminar
Post Apocalypse Stress Syndrome predicts that societies can experience shocks so strong that they change the very nature of the society itself. Previous historical examples include Europe during the Black Death and many Native Americans societies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, could…
The Known and the Unknown: Sensing Others in the Batek's Forest, Malaysia
Seminar
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as being ‘closer to nature’. Challenging this simplistic narrative, this talk explores how Batek people in Pahang speak about more-than-human agency and intentionality within their forest. Through speaking about non-human Others, Batek reinforce an ethical…
Weaning Behaviour and Diet of Australopithecus Africanus
Seminar
The last three million years have been characterised by strong climatic instability that drove many species to extinction. Australopithecus africanus lived in highly seasonal environments mostly dominated by open grasslands and wooded habitats. We have reconstructed the early life of this hominin…