“Our village name is spreading like fire”: Gold fever in a Sepik society, PNG
Seminar
When the Awiakay discovered gold on their land, a cascade of dramatic changes shook their society to its roots. The village all but emptied out with so many going to the bush to pan for gold on one of the two creeks where small-scale mining camps were set up. But when one young man became sick…
Quantifying the shape of growth
Seminar
Abstract The process of ontogeny plays a fundamental role in the emergence, magnitude and patterning of adult sexual dimorphism. Untangling the complex interaction between shape, size and age over the course of ontogeny is potentially difficult due to the large morphological variability in size…
Beyond the nuclear family: a behavioural ecological perspective on human family relationships
Lecture
Lecture synopsis: There is a widespread assumption in the West that the nuclear family is the ‘traditional’ human family, particularly the ‘male breadwinner-female homemaker’ version of the nuclear family. In this talk, I’ll use a behavioural ecological perspective to show that this…
Understanding different patterns of collagen fibre orientation - Session 5
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…
Examining osteocyte lacunae and canaliculi - Session 4
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…
Measuring Haversian canals and tracing secondary osteon cement lines - Session 3
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…
Philanthropic Foundations and Global Health
Seminar
About the Lecture: Philanthropic foundations are often overlooked in the development literature despite their influence. Gates’, Ford, or the Rockefeller Foundations in the US, or even the Tata Trusts, or Al Waleed Philanthropies in Asia. But it is the US Foundations that have had a…