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…
The feeding ecology of Cat Ba langurs on Cat Ba Island, Vietnam
Seminar
The Cat Ba langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus) is one of the 25 most threatened primates in the world. The taxon is endemic to Cat Ba Island and there have only been a small number of studies published on the species. The overall goal of this PhD project is to answer questions about the species…
Put Your Mask On! Contractual Sociality at Work in the Pandemic
Seminar
For many Americans, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced them to re-evaluate how the workplace functions as a site of private government. In every workplace, there is a wide range of attitudes and responses to pandemic risk, and yet the workplace somehow has to convince everyone to coordinate…
The State-Issued ‘Identity Card’ as Visual Medium in Postauthoritarian Indonesia
Seminar
In the political environment that followed the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (approx. ’65-‘98), various minority groups assert that access to bureaucratic forms of citizenship can provide protection from harm. During fieldwork in 2014-15 with transgender women in the cities of…
Wild Policy: a theory, method and activation
Seminar
In this talk, anthropologist Tess Lea will speak to her new book, Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention (2020, Stanford UP). The book does three key things: it explains why policy will never be ‘good’ in Indigenous Australia; it creates a new framework for thinking about…