After You: Reflections on More-Than-Human Hospitality in South Asia
Seminar
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and the capture of Pakistani “spy pigeons” at the India-Pakistan border. By examining the moral values created through culturally enshrined values…
Sex differences in allometry for phenotypic traits
Seminar
Sex differences in the lifetime risk and expression of disease are well-known. Preclinical research targeted at improving treatment, increasing health span, and reducing the financial burden of health care, has mostly been conducted on male animals and cells. The extent to which sex differences in…
Migrant Welfare Workers (1970-90s) and the Frontlines of Australian Multiculturalism
Seminar
Migrant Welfare Workers (1970-90s) and the Frontlines of Australian Multiculturalism The perspectives of ethnic-minority and migrant-background women are pivotal to understanding the history of multiculturalism as an access and equity issue. This paper draws on oral histories conducted…
Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Seminar
Please note this event is available via Zoom only This talk explores the cultural, political, and affective significance of mourning among the Indigenous Marind communities of rural Merauke West Papua, whose intimate and ancestral relations to native plants, animals, and ecosystems are…
Untangling Refugee Bodies and Navigating Through ‘Crisis’ in Humanitarian Protection
Seminar
CANCELLED *unfortunately this event has needed to be cancelled The paper begins with a discourse analysis of the deployment of the language crisis in situations of mass displacement and humanitarian protection. The key questions asked are: How is humanitarian protection articulated…
Recent discoveries at the Drimolen hominin site and their bearing on our understanding of early hominin evolution in South Africa
Seminar
Prof Herries will talk about his team’s latest discoveries at the Drimolen hominin bearing site in South Africa, including the world’s oldest Homo erectus and their suggestion that new fossils of Paranthropus from Drimolen suggest evidence of microevolution in this genus. Prof Herries will also…
Frontiers of belonging: Understanding everyday acts of anti-migrant boundary drawing
Seminar
Frontiers of belonging: Understanding everyday acts of anti-migrant boundary drawing In my presentation I will engage with the question of what role migration researchers might play in creating a more nuanced understanding of the backlash against refugees and migrants following the summer of…