Semester 1, 2026
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All seminars are held Fridays 10am - 11am, online via Zoom unless indicated otherwise.
For Zoom details, please contact katharine.baloila@anu.edu.au. In-person seminars will also be live broadcast via Zoom.
6 March 2026
Christopher Wolfe,The Whole Body has entered the Chat: A Manifesto to the Multivariate Phenotype
Online via Zoom
13 March 2026
Margaret Bryer, Deciphering Diet: Primate Nutritional Ecology and Social Behavior in a Changing World
Online via Zoom
24 April 2026
Gina Palefsky, Regional Isotopic Perspectives on Diet in Metal Age Central Thailand (c. 1100 BCE–CE 500)
Online via Zoom
8 May 2026
Naven Hon, The role of wild food plants on well-beings of local communities in northeastern Cambodia
Online via Zoom and in-person (Sir Roland Wilson Building, room 3.02)
22 May 2026
Joseph Watts, The cultural macroevolution of religion
Online via Zoom
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Contact
- Dr Katharine Balolia
Upcoming Events
The Cultural Macroevolution of Religion
Dr. Joseph Watts (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Religious systems show the key properties of evolutionary systems: heritability, variation, and change. Yet they have only recently begun to be…
Past Events
The role of wild food plants on the well-being of local communities in Cambodia
Naven Hon (ANU)
Globally, there is a commitment to protect 30% of marine and terrestrial areas by 2030 (the “30×30” target), alongside the United Nations Sustainable…
Regional Isotopic Perspectives on Diet in Metal Age Central Thailand (c. 1100 BCE–CE 500)
Gina Palefsky PhD (Augustana University)
Human dietary patterns provide important insights into past agricultural practices, foodways, and other human–environment interactions. This study…
Deciphering Diet: Primate Nutritional Ecology and Social Behavior in a Changing World
Margaret Bryer PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Examining nutritional ecology in relation to social behavior in extant primates enables testing predictions of primate socioecological models.…