Darwin’s Lovers: Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Love
Seminar
Adam’s presentation is his Oral Presentation milestone for his PhD thesis, Darwin’s Lovers: Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Love. Adam will discuss five articles he has prepared. The first article is a phylogenetic analysis of territoriality and social monogamy in non-human primates that…
Neanderthal lifeways on the dark side of the Pre-Pyrenees
Seminar
Neanderthals were the first extinct human relative to become known to science and have an iconic significance in human evolution. Recent research has clarified many aspects of Neanderthal anatomy, genetics, development and behaviour. The more we learn about Neanderthals the more we realise how…
Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
Seminar
In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central Australia. The reintegration of this material has prompted diverse responses from different communities. At the community of Laramba, a project…
The earliest multi-island obsidian exchange network and exciting discoveries from Wetar Island, Indonesia
Seminar
Our species embarked on the world’s first great maritime journey from Sunda (greater Southeast Asia) to Sahul (greater Australia) at least 50,000 years ago. In the process they settled Wallacea, the archipelago of thousands of islands lying between these two continental landmasses. While this…
Frailty, mortality and complexity: The osteological paradox and beyond
Seminar
Paleoepidemiology is concerned with exploration of disease of past population, and in particular the mortality risk associated with factors such as skeletal indicators of disease (such as bone lesions), as well as socio-cultural factors such as class which may impact health. The exploration of such…
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and the Event
Seminar
Radical activists struggle to assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects, and for their potential longer-term consequences. Provisional failures can become resources for future victories, while erstwhile successes can dissolve after apparent achievement. Drawing from ethnography…
Spiritual Fandom: Pentecostalism, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Hillsong
Seminar
This paper draws on my new book Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (OUP 2024). It argues that, as Hillsong became a global megachurch on the back of its bands that toured the world and its services that resemble rock concerts, international youth…