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…
“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…
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…