Discreet to Excrete in the Concrete Jungle: Women Bike Messengers and their Inventive Urban Strategies
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Abstract: In spite of the radical changes brought in by new communication technologies, bicycle messengers are still integral to many urban economies throughout the world. While all messengers creatively navigate through dense, hostile traffic on the streets, women face additional challenges…
27 May - Africa in World History : Literacy, Revolutions and the Quest for Alternative Histories
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Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, ANU Friday Seminar Series: 27 May 2016 Africa in World History: Literacy, Revolutions and the Quest for Alternative Histories By Kabu Okai-Davies Abstract: In this presentation I will discuss the role of literacy - writing/reading/arithmetic - in the…
ANCLAS book Launch - Social Collateral by Caroline Schuster
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ANCLAS book launch - Social Collateral by Caroline Schuster The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies presents the book launch of: Social Collateral by Caroline Schuster http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/australian-national-centre-for-latin-american-studies/events/…
Eighth Lapita Conference
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For the Eighth conference we want in the formal sessions to get back to Lapita 'basics' and the original intention of the Lapita conference series to focus on Lapita itself, as well as what came immediately before and immediately after it in the Western Pacific. There are now several conference…
The Archaeology of Portable Art: South East Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives
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Australian National University, Canberra 23rd - 24th May 2015 This symposium aims to reignite the dialogue about portable art across Island South East Asia, the Pacific and Australia and by doing so review future directions for research. Specific themes are: object histories; use of…