The Case of the Coal Basin in Southern Chile
Seminar
Introducing rephotography as a participatory tool to involve communities and to analyze the changing dynamics of industrial landscapesThis seminar will highlight the results of research focusing on industrial activity in the Biobío Region of Chile. In this project, I served as the principal…
Craniofacial development in bats: Insights into the evolution of laryngeal echolocation
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.Bats are known for their ability of laryngeal echolocation producing of high-frequency pulses from their larynx and interpreting returning echoes to track their prey and avoid obstacles in the night sky. The evolution of laryngeal echolocation within…
REMIX'D
Exhibition
REMIX'D - Exploring collaboration, creative practice and cultural continuity in VanuatuAn exhibition by the students of MUSC8018: Exhibition Design and Delivery.Opens Friday 24 October 4pm - 6pm Exhibition is open weekdays, 9am - 5pm, until 10 November 2025
New Thinking About the Origins of Material Symbols
Seminar
At some point our evolutionary past (exactly when is debated, though most would say within the last 200 ky years or so), our ancestors began to regularly produce material symbols (e.g., jewellery, parietal art, etc.). As yet, there's no widely accepted account as to what drove this intuitively…
Snakes
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.In May 1770, Joseph Banks described sea snakes near the coast of ‘New South Wales’ as ‘beautifully spotted’. In 1788, Watkin Tench noted the ‘[l]arge snakes beautifully variegated’ around Botany Bay and Port Jackson. The one snake…
Seminar Series | Susie Russell
Seminar
“Toward a New Culture”? The Promiscuous Politics and Queer Potential of the ‘Pregnant Man’ Poster In 1972 a New England Free Press catalogue offered, amidst its extensive book list, three posters, priced at 5 cents each. One was a comic skewering capitalism, the second a reproduction of an ink…
The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)Win Neisen is a local, indigenously developed church, that is the contemporary manifestation of the well-known Paliau Movement…