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…
Reconsidering how we can use developmental growth patterns in animal teeth to improve resolution of palaeodietary and palaeoclimate studies
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Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Sequential analyses of tooth enamel stable isotope values have provided valuable insight into patterns of ancient animal mobility and behavior. However, the conventional sampling strategy used in these studies does not closely follow the geometry…
Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power
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Presented in person and online - more details below.Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and PowerJoin us for a discussion of Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu's new book, Making Places Sacred. In it, Matt and Yujie examine how sacred space is made in projects that are creative,…
The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultural Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects
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Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic inequality is of core interest to social scientists, policy makers, and the public. I will introduce two projects that are part of an effort to bring new empirical data to facilitate that understanding. The ENDOW project (for Economic…
Carceral genocide: Aboriginal life and the settler state in Australia’s Northern Territory
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Presented in person and online - details below.Carceral genocide: Aboriginal life and the settler state in Australia’s Northern Territory Indigenous people in northern Australia are among the most incarcerated on the planet. This paper offers the view that hyperpolicing and hyperincarceration…