Semester 2, 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.
31 July
Zachary Cofran, Small apes, small brains—big lessons for human evolution
Online via Zoom
14 August
Zewdi Tsegai, Reconstructing locomotion in the human lineage: integrating new morphological and biomechanical approaches
Online via Zoom
28 August
Daniel Franklin, Forensic Investigation of Victims of the Batavia Mutiny 1629
Online via Zoom
25 September
Helen Kurki, Evolution of the human pelvis and childbirth: Myths, mythos, and logos
Online via Zoom
9 October
Travis Steffens, We are in this together: One Health Approaches to ConservationResearch and Practice
Online via Zoom
23rd October
Khandis Blake, Gender, kinship, and the architecture of the human mind: A proposal from psychology
Online via Zoom
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- Dr Katharine Balolia
Upcoming Events
Gender, kinship, and the architecture of the human mind: A proposal from psychology
Khandis Blake PhD, ARC Future Fellow (University of Melbourne)
Kinship systems—culturally evolved rules and practices governing descent, residence, marriage, and inheritance—are among the most fundamental forms…
Past Events
We are in this together: One Health Approaches to lemur conservation.
Travis Steffens, PhD (University of Guelph)
Lemurs are the most endangered animals in the world, with 98% threatened with extinction. However, they also live in direct connection to people and…
Evolution of the human pelvis and childbirth: Myth, mythos, and logos
Heln Kurki (University of Victoria)
The human female pelvis has long been viewed as a compromised structure, suggesting it is not best designed for anything. The dominant evolutionary…
Forensic Investigation of Victims of the Batavia Mutiny, 1629
Daniel Franklin (University of Western Australia)
On 4 June 1629, the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) retourschip Batavia wrecked on Morning Reef, in the Houtman Abrolhos, approximately 65 km…