Holding Tightly: Co-mingling, life-flourishing and filmic ecologies
Seminar
Please note this event is available via Zoom only Firmly emplaced within a soundscape incorporating movement, prayer, music, human-made and environmental sounds, the film Holding Tightly (2021: 30 mins) closely observes the performance and practice of a series of healing encounters in the Baucau…
Modelling the age-sex profiles of net international migration
Seminar
Modelling the age-sex profiles of net international migration In our paper, we present a methodology to infer the age and sex profiles of net migration. This research supports the United Nations Population Division’s estimation and population projection procedures for producing the World…
Environmental change and behavioural flexibility: Japanese monkeys and disability on Awaji Island, Japan
Seminar
What does it mean for an animal to have a physical disability? As human-induced environmental change increasingly impacts species and ecosystems in every part of the world, understanding behavioural flexibility and how animals cope with challenges can point to the selection pressures animals face…
Flexible fires: cultural burning and the settler-Indigenous interface
Seminar
Please note this event is available via Zoom only “What exactly is cultural burning?” During the seven years that I have been researching the revitalisation of Indigenous land and fire management practices in southeast Australia, this is the question I have been asked repeatedly by non-Indigenous…
Mobility Inequality: what do the long-term data actually show?
Seminar
Part of the Migration, Mobility & Movement Network Seminar Series presented by the School of Archaeology & Anthropology and The Migration Hub at the School of Regulation and Global Governance This research examines the key questions of "who migrates internationally and where do they go?"…
Children of the Ice Age: What can the study of past children tell us about human evolution?
Seminar
Abstract Children were a significant part of Palaeolithic – and other prehistoric – societies. Indeed, it is probable that children constituted the largest group of individuals in these communities, perhaps making up as much as 40% of the population. As such, the smallest members of society…
Qing Guan & Juliet Pietsch: Ethnic Minority Representation in the 2022 Australian Federal Election
Seminar
The 2022 Australian Federal election observed record-level ethnic minority candidates elected. However, the shares of candidates and elected Members of Parliaments with ethnic minority backgrounds are still much lower than their relative shares in the population. In this regard, Australia has…