Affective Resilience of Aging: Social Networks and Care Work Among Older Adults in Chiangmai, Thailand
Seminar
Presented in person and online; details below.This study examines the resilience of older adults in urban Chiang Mai, Thailand, focusing on how they actively contribute as caregivers, disaster responders, and community leaders within the contexts of social and environmental precarity. Drawing on…
Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It
Lecture
CCS Research Seminar 4 - Public Lecture presented in association with the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum During the two millennia that the Roman state lasted nearly everything changed. Rome began as an Italian city state in which people spoke Latin and worshiped pagan gods and evolved into…
Audiobook Fraud from the Analog Era to AI
Seminar
Presented in person and online via Zoom, login details below.This presentation examines the audiobook as a medium in which entrenched assumptions about vocal authenticity collide with the technological ease of deception. Focusing on various forms of life writing, it proposes the concept of the ‘…
Regional Isotopic Perspectives on Diet in Metal Age Central Thailand (c. 1100 BCE–CE 500)
Seminar
Human dietary patterns provide important insights into past agricultural practices, foodways, and other human–environment interactions. This study presents stable isotope data from four Metal Age sites in central Thailand to examine diet during a formative period of regional prehistory. The results…
Staging Social Change
Panel discussion
Theatre spaces as sites for transformative civic dialogueAt a time of increasing polarisation, how can we create better civic discourse? Could the theatre be a useful place for hard conversations? Historically and today, theatre serves as a rare space where people from different social,…
The evolution of the olive: domestication pathways and prehistoric human-environment dynamics
Seminar
Presented in person and online, Zoom details below.Olive (Olea europaea ssp. europaea L.) is a cornerstone of Mediterranean cultural and ecological history, yet the timing and nature of its earliest exploitation and domestication continue to be debated. These questions are further complicated by…
The Scar, the Bow, and the Bed: Embodied Engagements in—and with—Key Moments of the Odyssey
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 5The 4E approach to cognition—according to which our cognitive processes are thought to be embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive--allows classicists to investigate from an empirical standpoint the experientiality and the impact of narrative texts, as we follow…