Applying the polio model to New Zealand: the contingent role of socioeconomic status in infectious disease mortality
Seminar
Summary: Non-Māori (settler) New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had reputation as ‘working man’s paradise’ with extensive social mixing, low industrialization, relatively low population densities, and high home ownership rates. However, some degree of social gradient remained,…
Introduction to software and differentiating between young and adult cortical bone matrix - Session 1
Workshop
HUMAN BONE HISTOLOGY MORNING COFFEE WORKSHOP SERIES FOR BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS Registrations have closed as we reached capacity. Please contact the instructor if you want to be placed on a waiting list. Australian Research Council (ARC) funded series introducing early career researchers…
“Governing with a head but no arms and legs”: Inter-dependency, co-option and oppositional migration politics
Seminar
About the Lecture Safe migration has emerged as a central policy discourse in the Mekong region and elsewhere. Although United Nations agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations dominate this policy space, governments, as well as informal migrant self-help groups, are central in enabling safe…
Models, scenarios, and buying the future: Or, what comics can teach us about life in the multiverse
Seminar
About the Lecture We are living in a timeline defined by ‘the curve.’ The spread of Covid-19 has imposed radically new norms about physical distancing, social proximity, and economic interdependency. These are guided by the models and scenarios that make headline news daily. This talk considers…
Histories of Archaeology Conference
Conference
Conference Cancellation Owing to the issues surrounding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we have had to cancel this conference. We are currently working on rescheduling it for a later date, please get in touch with admin.cbap@anu.edu.au if you have any further questions. On 23–27…
Technical Workshop with Cape York Land Council
Workshop
CNTA offers technical workshops on specific aspects of anthropological native title practice. In March 2020 CNTA is running a workshop for the Cape York Land Council (CYLC) but will extend invitations to participate to other local NTRBs and Land Councils in the area. Further information about this…
The emergence of inequality in the transition from forager to sedentary lives
Seminar
Almost all living humans live in social world that are profoundly unequal in wealth and influence. By the standard of deep human history, that is a recent change. For most of our history humans lived in egalitarian, acephalous communities. This paper focusses on two questions. First: how and why…