Thai Airline Workers and the Transnational Gift
Seminar
Airline jobs have valuable opportunity benefits beyond the prescribed work role. This presentation explores how these situations affect cabin crews’ relationships with friends and families, as codified in gifts and consumer practices. Airline workers frequently contend with requests to acquire…
Biological Anthropology Quiz Battle Royale
Seminar
Do you know a lemur from your femur? Come along, enjoy some light snacks and hot drinks, and test your biological anthropology knowledge in our first ever Biological Anthropology Quiz Battle Royale! Trivia questions will be drawn from all four sub-disciplines of biological anthropology:…
Anti-mobile Placemaking in a Mobile World
Seminar
In this presentation I revisit debates about the socio-cultural importance of place and permanence in a hypermobile world order. I zoom in on everyday practices of a municipality located in the Austrian Nock mountains region which is at once characterized by a long history of cross-border…
Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Practical Laboratory Delivery in Biological Anthropology
Seminar
Online learning is becoming increasingly common in many practice-based fields, including biological anthropology. However, its impact on student outcomes is unknown due to a lack of research around the effectiveness of online practical training and around education in biological anthropology…
A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
Seminar
This paper examines the assumptions, institutions and politics of fisheries co-management as they are actualised in the Torres Strait region. In the 1980s, central governments around the world instituted co-management arrangements in response to the limits and flaws of centralised, command-and-…
A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
Seminar
This paper examines the assumptions, institutions and politics of fisheries co-management as they are actualised in the Torres Strait region. In the 1980s, central governments around the world instituted co-management arrangements in response to the limits and flaws of centralised, command-and-…
Exploring Psychopathology from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective
Seminar
Recently there has been a move to conceptualise mental health problems (psychopathology) from an evolutionary psychology perspective; however, to-date there is limited empirical research investigating psychopathology through an evolutionary psychology lens. There are also mixed findings around…