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
Past Events
How Family Helps: Extended family engagement in raising First Nations children and its associations with health and wellbeing
Lauren McFarlene, ANU
Presented in person and online, details below.It is widely accepted in anthropology that humans evolved as co-operative breeders, requiring help from…
A Glimpse Into the Future: How Well Can We Predict Facial Growth?
Dr Ryan Knigge, University of Minnesota Medical School
Variation in human craniofacial morphology arises, in part, from complex differential patterns of growth that unfold from childhood to adulthood. A…
The Mad Dog Initiative: Over a decade of conservation and research in Madagascar
Dr. Kim Valenta, University of Florida
Since 2012, the Mad Dog Initiative has led an effort to humanely reduce free-roaming invasive species populations in Madagascar’s key protected areas…