Living City: people, plants and place
Meeting
Join ANU School of Art & Design to discuss Living City: people, plants and place. In the first year of this three-year visual arts and design program we are working with Gawari Mada – the Holt micro-forest & food forest. Everyone is welcome, you do not have to be an existing micro-…
Postgraduate Student Short Talks
Seminar
In this seminar, we will be having three prostgraduate students to give short talks: Iona Claringbold: Zooarchaeology and Polynesian Ritual Sites: New regional approaches to human-animal relationships Emily Nutman: Geological sourcing in Sahul: documenting 50,000 years of human…
Tracing the threads of linguistic and genetic diversity in New Guinea
Seminar
New Guinea is the heart of global linguistic diversity. New Guinea makes up 1% of the global land area as an island, containing less than 0.2% of the world's population and 20% of all languages. The obvious linguistic and anthropological question is why? There are many social and evolutionary…
Associate Professor Catherine Frieman (ANU) - Resisting romanisation: Cornish kinship and connectivity at the edge of Empire
Seminar
With the Roman invasion of Britain in the first centuries AD, we see a clear transformation in settlement patterns, social practices, artefact forms and economic structures. In Cornwall – Britain’s southwestern-most peninsula – things look a little different. Although the landscape was transformed…
Colour, Shape, and Space: Material and Conceptual Spaces through Print Media
Seminar
Colour, Shape, and Space: Material and Conceptual Spaces through Print Media Berman's work is grounded in earth science and the body. Focusing on colour and the building of relationships through abstracted forms, iteration is at the heart of her practice. Through printed layers and physical…
Chicken Shit and Bare Life: the ritual economy of India's chickens
Seminar
This talk delves into the complexities of India's evolving poultry industry, reflecting on the social, cultural and economic aspects to do with the shift from 'traditional' to 'modern' farming. It examines the implications of these changes on labor relations, land use, and the environment, with a…