Talepakemalai Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
Webinar/Online
In this presentation Patrick Kirch will present the highlights from his most recent book, Talepakemalai. Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Talepakemalai is a single integrated volume in which all of the results of the Mussau Project, including more recent…
Ancient human bone histology and behaviour in Holocene Asia-Pacific
Seminar
Bone remodelling processes are influenced by lifestyle, health, disease, and environmental factors. Dr Miszkiewicz’s research investigates these processes and factors using microscopy of ancient and post-mortem bone. In this talk she will present some of her DECRA (2019-2022) work focused on…
Real Time in Rear View: Temporal Acts in Markets of Electricity
Seminar
This paper explores what “real time” means to market actors. My focus is on the traders, market designers, and engineers acting in the electricity markets of the United States. For these actors, real time concerns the time interval in which they can no longer intervene using the instruments…
Villages and Environmental Water: using Archaeology for Conservation on the Murray River
Seminar
Aboriginal archaeology has a central role to play among the myriad government agencies and professional disciplines involved in land and water of the Murray River Basin. This is Australia's food bowl that today produces one third of our food supply while using four fifths of the water supply. We…
Micro-evolutionary changes in our hominin cousins
Seminar
Paranthropus robustus is a small-brained, large-toothed hominin species endemic to southern Africa. Thought to be well understood, recent discoveries have shed new light on this species and where it fits within the Paranthropine clade. New evidence seems to contradict the well-accepted idea of P.…
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…