Book Launch: The Green Revolution Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender by Patrick Kilby
Book launch
Book Launch: The Green Revolution Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender by Patrick Kilby To be launched by Prof Margaret Jolly Convenor of the Gender Institute Venue: The McDonald Room, the Menzies Library Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2019. Time: 5 PM, with official proceedings commencing at…
The Bioarchaeology of Non Ban Jak, an Iron Age community in northeast Thailand
Seminar
Until the excavation of Non Ban Jak (NBJ), the human skeletal record of the late Iron Age in northeast Thailand invariably consisted of small samples or, if larger, of poorly preserved burials, limiting the ability to understand this time period. This presentation will provide the first…
Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies - Seminar on Resilience: ‘Children Drowning’: The Violence and Resilience of a Narrative
Seminar
The narrative that asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat should be stopped – and either turned back or imprisoned – in order to ‘prevent children drowning at sea’ is one that has proved resilient in Australian political discourse over the course of the twenty first century. In this paper I…
Approaching children at Roonka through bioarchaeology
Seminar
The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on children in the past. Yet there have been few studies of hunter-gatherer children and very few focussed on pre-contact Aboriginal children. Children, however, have become one focus in our work of re-analysing Roonka, a mid to late Holocene burial…
Law and Anthropology Workshop, Alice Springs
Workshop
This workshop will be held in Alice Springs, NT. Registration Registration is currently open. To register your interest, please email Dr Julie Finlayson at julie.finlayson@anu.edu.au Program The workshop program Alice Springs Law and Anthropology Workshop 2019 - Conflict, Compensation and…
Feeding habits and conservation biology of the Black snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri)
Seminar
The Myanmar or black snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri) was discovered in the Gaoligong Mountains of northeastern Kachin state, Myanmar in 2010, and was subsequently found in same mountains of northwestern Yunnan, China. There were 14-15 groups with about 950 individuals (10 sub-populations…
2019 CNTA Annual Conference: Change and Development in Native Title Anthropology
Conference
The Centre for Native Title Anthropology Annual Conference 2019: Change and Development in Native Title Anthropology is to be held in Queen's College, University of Melbourne. Held over 7-8 February 2019, the two day conference covers two main topics: Change and challenges for…