How Family Helps: Extended family engagement in raising First Nations children and its associations with health and wellbeing
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.It is widely accepted in anthropology that humans evolved as co-operative breeders, requiring help from an extended, flexible network of people to raise children. However, few studies are designed around understanding the importance of extended family,…
Archaeology of domestic life in Polynesia’s first Catholic kingdom: Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia 1830-1900
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.The Mangareva Islands of French Polynesia are a remote archipelago located about 1600km southeast of Tahiti. In 1834, French Catholic priests and lay brothers from the order of Sacrés Cœurs de Jésus et Marie arrived in the islands to establish the first…
A Glimpse Into the Future: How Well Can We Predict Facial Growth?
Seminar
Variation in human craniofacial morphology arises, in part, from complex differential patterns of growth that unfold from childhood to adulthood. A thorough understanding of these growth patterns is critical for clinicians as it forms the basis for careful diagnosis and treatment planning. In…
Warlpiri women’s ceremonies of loss: Collective mourning in the Central Australian desert
Seminar
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
Seminar
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
Seminar
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
Seminar
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…