Losing the Plot: A Deep Dive into Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Seminar
Presented in person and online via Zoom, login details below[…] Let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s bloodUp to the elbows and besmear our swords.Then walk we forth, even to the marketplace,And,…
Korean Dreams, Revisited: Vietnamese Women’s Stories of Repeat Marriage Migration
Seminar
Presented in person and online; details below.Marriage migration between Vietnam and South Korea has grown exponentially since the early 2000s, with more than 100,000 Vietnamese women marrying Korean men by the end of 2020. Although often imagined as a one-time, linear movement dictated by global…
Life in a Desert City: New Discoveries from Ancient Trimithis (Egypt’s Western Desert)
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 2Amheida, the site of ancient Trimithis in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, is renowned for its well-preserved Late Roman remains, offering a rare glimpse into urban life far from the imperial centers of the Roman world. Over more than two decades of archaeological work, the site has…
Inside Australian Land Claims: Some Anthropological Perspectives
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.This paper is a continuation of my long-standing interest in the interaction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and institutions, which I have called `intercultural’. The paper focuses substantively on some aspects of the intercultural in…
Deciphering Diet: Primate Nutritional Ecology and Social Behavior in a Changing World
Seminar
Examining nutritional ecology in relation to social behavior in extant primates enables testing predictions of primate socioecological models. African guenons, one of the largest and most diverse radiations of primates, have subtler intragroup social dynamics than other cercopithecines, leading to…
Memory, Architecture and Australian Fiction
Seminar
Presented in person and online via Zoom, login details below.This practice-led thesis draws upon the works of Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright to approach tricky questions about writing memory and place in contemporary Australia. The poetic theories of Bachelard and Glissant are used to understand…
The Whole Body has entered the Chat: A Manifesto to the Multivariate Phenotype
Seminar
Phenotypes are multidimensional. Yet many contemporary methodologies lack the capability to fully quantify the biological complexity of dynamic and multivariate processes. Utilizing virtual modalities and bespoke Bayesian modelling, this seminar expounds upon the value of thinking multivarietly…