Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desert
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Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desertFor Warlpiri people living in the Central Australian Tanami desert region, ceremonial songs and ancestral stories associated with places are intimately linked…
The Mad Dog Initiative: Over a decade of conservation and research in Madagascar
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Since 2012, the Mad Dog Initiative has led an effort to humanely reduce free-roaming invasive species populations in Madagascar’s key protected areas – this is a story about finding ways to protect the primates we study.About the SpeakerDr. Valenta is a primate evolutionary ecologist who founded…
Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
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Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's ShoreJoin us for a panel discussion of V. Chitra's new book, Drawing Coastlines. In this book, V. Chitra reveals the ways that technical images…
Graphic production and underground area during Gravettien in western Europe
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Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Graphic production and underground area during Gravettien in western Europe: track as a new heuristic approach. Gravettian (34 500 – 25 000 CalBP) is the second culture in Upper Palaeolithic to present a graphic production inside deep caves in…
Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean
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Presented online only - Zoom details belowMoorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and…
The Mystery of the Almost Disappearing Naga: On Urbanization and Cosmopolitics in Bangkok
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Presented online only - Zoom details belowWhat might the precarious persistence of the naga in Bangkok’s critical zones illuminate about entangled relations of capitalist urbanization, migration, environmental degradation, and speculative world-renewal? Drawing on ethnographic encounters with naga…
There and Back Again: A Palaeodemographic Tale of Biased Skeletal Samples
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Presented in person and online. Zoom details belowPalaeodemography aims to investigate past human population trends using archaeological evidence including skeletal samples and their respective age-at-death distributions. It is commonly accepted that bioarchaeological samples have a degree of under…